Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

Author ~ Global Business Strategist and Advisor ~ the Antiracist Economist ~ Focused on Possibilities ~ https://linktr.ee/TheFutureIsFREE

Last Notes

2026-11-04 13:32:11 GMT

The data does not lie.
Black women turned out at 94% Democratic. Black men at 77%. Every non-white voting bloc leaned Democratic by double digits. White men voted Republican at 61%. White women at 59%.
If you want a progressive agenda in this country, it must be acknowledged and respected, that it runs through Black folx.
Black women specifically.
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2026-06-19 10:14:45 GMT

You were never just an angry person. That was never the whole truth of what you were carrying. But it was the only truth that had a way out.
Fear had no exit, so it became anger. Grief had no exit, so it became anger. The loneliness, the exhaustion, the need that never got met, none of it had anywhere to go, so it all got converted into the one currency the table would accept from you. Anger was not your only feeling. It was the only feeling with a door.

2025-12-12 17:10:38 GMT

I can’t believe that my professional year has come to an end.
In just a few short hours, I’ll be logging out of all social media, email, and even the PWO Community and I won’t return until February 1, 2026.
For years, I’ve been intentionally reshaping my life to more closely follow the seasons. And like most living things in the northern hemisphere, it’s time for me to enter my hibernation season. This is the period I set aside every year to rest, recover,
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2025-11-17 17:26:35 GMT

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Redemption maintains the myth.
Redemption protects power.
Redemption ensures whiteness doesn’t have to change and everyone else just has to “accept” the apology and keep moving.
But apologizing is not a path to redemption.
It isn’t even a path to forgiveness.
Apology and amends are processes of repairing harm, not erasing it.
Not escaping consequences.
Not rewriting your character arc.

2025-11-17 17:26:25 GMT

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Which brings us to MTG.
White media is already bending over backwards to cast her as “self-reflective,” “evolving,” or “finally taking responsibility.”
But let’s be absolutely clear:
“Redemption” is a weapon of the myth of white supremacy.
It’s used to demand that others, especially Black people, non-white people, and anyone targeted by her violence, perform forgiveness so that whiteness can return to its preferred roles: hero or victim.
Never the villain.

2025-11-16 10:14:22 GMT

I’ve spent the past few months watching white media, traditional and independent, twist itself into knots trying to “explain” the fracturing happening within the right-wing coalition. And the unfortunate truth is this: nothing has changed. Because under the myth of white supremacy, far too many of you still refuse to acknowledge that systems, institutions, and policies, not personalities, are what animate these movements.
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2025-11-12 22:18:35 GMT

There’s a moment in nearly every conversation about equity when the myth shows up. You know the one.
The myth of “hard work,” “personal responsibility,” and “deservingness.”
The myth that says if someone is hungry, it’s their fault.
That myth has a name: the Myth of White Supremacy.
It’s the lie that some lives are worth more, that some people have earned comfort while others deserve to struggle.
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2025-11-09 23:12:57 GMT

Today reminded me that I still have work to do.
I attended a professional/friend event and if you know me, you know how rare that is. Rare enough that when I show up, people are genuinely surprised.
The conversation started off light, low-stakes, easy to maintain. But as often happens, it took a turn. One of those sharp lefts where suddenly you realize you’re no longer having a conversation and it feels like you’re defending your right to exist.
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2025-10-04 12:24:08 GMT

The post titled “DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought” isn’t about a new revelation…it’s about white tech dudes finally having no choice but to acknowledge what’s been obvious for years.
Yet, here we are. I post about DHH and unsurprisingly received this response:
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2025-09-25 17:11:20 GMT

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And as history has shown, when white male entitlement is threatened, the systems, institutions, and policies bend to resecure their power, even if it means dismantling the very tools that lift others out of poverty.
This is why dismantling the myth of white supremacy requires more than reform.
It requires exposing these patterns, refusing to normalize them, and committing to build systems, institutions, and policies where access doesn’t trigger panic.

2025-09-25 17:10:30 GMT

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Which is why the outrage and questioning of the “value” of college degrees suddenly spiked when access was granted to non-white men and working-class folx.
Historically, higher ed wasn’t questioned. It was a ticket stamped “reserved” for wealthy white men, a smooth path forward into positions of leadership.
The degrees themselves carried value not because of what was learned, but because of what they signified: membership in an exclusive club.

2025-09-24 16:12:10 GMT

A white supremacist calling a Black, elected official a “ghetto Black b****” is VIOLENCE.
And yet, rightfully, it is deemed protected speech.
But when folx use Kirk’s own words to show the harm in his rhetoric, they became targets.
This isn’t new.
This is exactly what Ijeoma Oluo details in Mediocre, the ways white male supremacy weaponizes power and language to keep itself at the center.
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2025-07-31 12:38:47 GMT

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This is why we’re offering space to build stamina, not just information.
The PWO Community’s Facilitated Conversations are where white people can:
Be confronted without collapsing
Learn how to stay in the work without causing harm
Practice showing up differently, consistently
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2025-06-18 10:25:17 GMT

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I witnessed firsthand how easy it is for even well-intentioned people to cause harm—often unknowingly. How our actions, words, and decisions, when shaped by unexamined bias and unchecked privilege, can leave lasting scars on those around us. And how far we still have to go in aligning our intentions with our impact.
In that moment, I felt like I’d been knocked back to the starting line in the Game of Life.

2024-07-27 13:46:21 GMT

Ok, what I'm NOT going to do is take on the responsibility, that Mastodon developers continue to fail at, of reading racist and violent comments to my posts just so that I can block them
Moving forward, I will be muting my posts which means it's up to you "good white folx" to report this shit because I will NOT sacrifice my mental health and wellbeing in service to helping y'all understand white supremacy/anti-Blackness AND your role in maintaining it