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Tag Archives: white privilege
RACISM AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY
Racism At A Christmas Party By Jorge Antonio Vallejos Racism never takes a break. If you are a person of colour you’re never on vacation from racism. Christmas and the Holiday season brings many fun occasions along with sad ones. … Continue reading
BCP ON “ONE VOICE RADIO” WITH MALIKAH AWERI AND DANE SWAN
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of being on One Voice Radio hosted by the ever talented poet and singer Malkah Aweri. My co-guest was Toronto poet Dane Swan, author of Bending The Continuum. We all participated at … Continue reading
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Tagged 28 Seconds by Michael Bryant, Aboriginal poet, African Canadian Poetry, Black Coffee Poet, class, Dane Swan, Darcy Allen Sheppard, Latino Poetry, Malikah Aweri, Metis Nation, Michael Bryant, Native American Poetry, One Voice Radio, poetry, racism, Red Slam Collective, Resistance Poetry, Violence Against Women, White Power, white privilege
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FREAKY FLOW
Freaky Flow By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I grew up listening to Hip Hop. RUN DMC, The Fat Boys, and Big Daddy Kane were always pumping in my room. I discovered my favorite rapper in the 1990s: Biggie Smalls. His lyrics … Continue reading
IF JAMES HOLMES WAS NOT WHITE…
In my last post, and VLOG (James Holmes: Shooter or Terrorist?), I talked about BIG media labeling James Holmes a “shooter” as opposed to a terrorist. In this VLOG I talk about James Holmes if he was not white. We’d … Continue reading
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Tagged "Platoon" by Oliver Stone, 1492, Al-Qaeda, Amy Goodman, Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, Aurora Colorado, Black Coffee Poet, Bombs, Chris Rock, Colonialism, Colorado Movie Theatre Massacre, Colorado Movie Theatre Shooting, Colorado Shooting, Dark Knight Rises, Dark Knight Rises Murders, Homeland Security, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Islamaphobia, James Holmes, James Holmes Colorado, Jessica Ghawi, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Kenneth Chamberlain, Mohammad Usman Chaudry, National Public Radio, NPR, Oliver Stone, Police Brutality, racism, Shooting 2012, Terrorism, white privilege
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REMEMBERING THE WOMEN FORGOTTEN ON DECEMBER 6TH: POETRY BY SHAUNGA TAGORE, MEL GAYLE, AND BLACK COFFEE POET
Shaunga Tagore hates writing bios (but secretly likes it) and not so secretly works as a writer, editor, performer and arts-educator in Toronto. Please see the song “bitch” by meredith brooks for a more detailed and accurate personality profile. And … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged "Remembering the Women Forgotten on December 6th", "Shane It Isn't Fair", 500 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada, Black Coffee Poet, Black Coffee Poet reads "Shane It Isn't Fair", Daleen Kay Bossee, Helen Betty Osbourne, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jane Creba, Mel Gayle, Murders at Cherry Beach, Neil Stonechild, Police Brutality, Reena Virk, Shane Fair, Shaunga Tagore, Stephine Beck, Suritah Wignall, Trans Day of Remembrance, Violence Against Sex Workers, Violence Against Women, Visible/Invisible by Suritah Wignall, White Power, white privilege
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THE MARROW’S TELLING
The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion By Eli Clare By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I remember when I first saw Eli Clare’s collection of poetry The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. I was checking out the poetry section at Toronto Women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged 1851, Battle Rock, Black Coffee Poet, Canada, Captain J. M. Kirkpatrick, Cerebral Palsy, child abuse, Cleaning Dead Birds, crip, crip. cripple, Cripple, disability, eli clare, Gaping, Gawking, Hanging Loose, Last Refrain, MIchigan Review, Natalie Goldberg, No Longer Small and Lonely, poetry, Port Orford, Queer, Queer Poetry, Scars, sexual abuse, Staring, stolen land, surviving sexual abuse, The Marrow's Telling, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Trans, Trans man, Transgender, Tremors, United States, white man, white men, white privilege, Writing Down the Bones
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