TheCementMixer

There are countless people who speak more elegantly than me, especially on topics like this. If you've ever spoken to me, you'd quickly find out that I'm a curt and speedy emotional speaker who opts to get his words across in as few words as possible. So in being brief, I just want to say that without justice, there is no peace. The police who murdered Breonna Taylor have not been punished, and honestly I am not surprised, I'm not sad, I'm just angry. It's how the system works. It's weird how easily I got desensitized to people openly talking about how much they wish me and people who look like me just not exist. I read it, hear it, feel it, and continue with my day. My parents, for whatever reason, never outright warned me that people would challenge my right to exist. They were always quiet about it, they warned me about the police, but I don't know why. If I hate to hypothesize, it's because they wanted to believe that the world would be better wh...

I've spoken about comic books a lot on this blog, and sometimes I worry that I worry that it sounds like I hate the genre, when in actuality, it's more that I'm disappointed with them. The idea of the modern comic is like, a hundred years old? Something around that - and in that time, they've been used to fight hate in so many forms. Everyone knows that Jewish immigrants created Superman, everyone knows the X-men are an allegory for racism. If you didn't, well, you know now. It's just that they suffer from the same issues that every other medium has: capitalism.  "Woah DrowZ, put down the torch," I hear my friend, Straw McMahon, say. So I'll be brief - comics are a business, and to stay afloat, they have to make money, which isn't very conducive to making the first step, especially with how little money they make nowadays. Instead, what more frequently happens is that they'll try a new, progressive thing, give it to a 50-year-old whit...