Emma Bracy

 Practicing self-care by telling white people about themselves, calling in Black to life, delighting in Black art? That was Black as shit.

Power broker, sex symbol, and kingpin of the block: reflecting on the rapper, who reconfigured familiar faces into something wholly unfamiliar, 20 years after the release of her debut album.

I wonder if my grandfather knew the helicopters he helped to perfect would one day be used to surveil and oppress Black and Brown bodies.