Matthew Chung

All that I need is for you to remember. Remember your immense privilege and status due to the color of your skin as often as I remember that lack of privilege and status due to mine.

While watching the show, I realized that the singles on TV and me on my couch had a lot in common: Suddenly, the physical nature of dating was surreptitiously removed.

You would seriously have to be living under a rock for the last month and not noticed rainbows taking over everything from the Google home screen to your Uber app.

I want my clothes to say something about me to the world, maybe something that I can’t even verbalize.

I’m talking about the televised conversation, monologue might be a better term, between President Donald J. Trump and Kanye West.

I remember the moment I first heard of “the nod.”

Let that not take away from the ground that this film broke.

People do not say those things to me all the time, but I feel the underlying sting of those words almost every day.

They are destroying the way that the world eats, drinks, and shops.

As a black man living in America and as more and more people’s civil rights are challenged, you begin to wonder if you will be next.

The crumbling soul of this country has a powerful voice and we need to step back and listen.

Condoleezza Rice famously said, if all of your friends look and think like you, then you need a new group of friends.

However, the crux of the matter here is, why did they only go halfway? Why not stand up to public pressure (and there was plenty) and give Harriet the entire bill? I don’t think she and Andrew Jackson see eye-to-eye on issues of race to put it mildly.

Art imitates life and when you see other black people being beaten in the street for no reason, it would be hard not to be affected by that image. Those are images Beyoncé is making us watch and consider.

It doesn’t matter what Beyoncé was trying to present or whether she was trying to present anything other than a killer a dance number. It’s the fact that she, and other famous blacks, can’t raise their opinions without being skewered by the media.

“If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” White Ford Bronco (not the band). The Kardashians.

This establishment of individuals (this fact is completely uncorroborated, it might be a computer system for all I know) has taken it upon itself to judge the movies of the past year with an unknown set of criterion and then, year after year, not give Leonardo DiCaprio a gold statue.

Our cell phones are always with us. We wake up with them, we go to sleep with them, and we might even take them into the shower with us