my first newsletter, The Black Cat, is here; it's thoughts and other musings.

i spoke to some people and we all pondered how differently sam would have been treated by the world if he were black or a woman. here's what everyone had to say.

theblackcat.substack.com/p/what-if-sam-…

Warplanes are back in the sky of Gaza.

actually he was just involved in a knife-related incident

Charles Schultz took his whole franchise into possible peril by having a Black character and the pushback was loudly against Franklin being added to the show. Mr. Schultz wasn't backing down but had to agree to this set up so the southern racists would accept the episode.

Dom this is so effing atrocious

Dom They certainly seem to have a specific target in mind…Black women.

Dom It’s beyond upsetting. I don’t even have the words.

'I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they're going to screw — and pretend like none of us know what's going on — and sell off the American people, than show up to vote because they're too hungover,' he says.

Our 19 year old daughter got hit by a car while crossing the street the night before Thanksgiving. She didn’t make it.

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snoopy served those kids popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and a piece of toast

MUST-READ from Dom:
'Each time a white man like this is exalted to new heights, there is always a whisper in the back of a Black person and even a woman’s mind just wondering how different a situation would unfold if that white man were them.' theblackcat.substack.com/p/what-if-sam-…

Let’s clear this up DJ Vlad 🇺🇦 what’s REAL is I did leave REVOLT PODCAST NETWORK because of the sexual assault claims against Diddy made by Cassie & now other victims. I was not assaulted by him as many of you have assumed because of this headline. Also my last name is misspelled

The largest challenge in my career is...

'researchers found that when venture capital funds are managed by a person of color with strong credentials, professional investors judge them more harshly than their white counterparts with identical credentials.'
news.stanford.edu/2019/08/12/rac…

Edward Blum has started a trend that is only at its beginning, and because he and these groups keep winning, it will only keep happening

Conservative groups have sued to shut down the Abundant Birth Project, which provides 150 pregnant Black San Franciscans a $1,000 monthly stipend

They allege the project illegally discriminates by giving the stipend only to people of a specific race 19thnews.org/2023/11/affirm…

Oh wow I guess she really did leave Vogue

Thought this was very good.
When one falls outside the norms of what success or the ideal is considered to be, how do opportunities suffer and how is daily life impacted? Focus here on as a Black and/or female founder/leader but goes well beyond that.

Also, if we aren’t careful, this will only be amplified by coding expectations and ideals into AI algorithms that rule society.
(If we aren’t careful = it’s already happening and read it as if in all caps).