A deeply disturbing trend has gone viral across Chinese social media involving the “Natasha Doll”—a hand-sized, rubbery Black baby doll sold specifically as a stress toy. Consumers stretch, stomp, and brutalize these dolls to release anger. When questioned about the explicit racial design, one social media user explained that a white doll feels too human-like to abuse, whereas the Black doll is marketed for its “ugly” and “abstract” vibe. Compounding this cruelty, the market has expanded to target real-life Black infants and children. Dehumanizing channels showcase Chinese adults exploiting, humiliating, and laughing at the abuse of African youth, heavily shielded from global scrutiny by China’s digital firewalls. A BBC documentary exposed this horrific industry, uncovering a Chinese national in Malawi who filmed local children without parental consent for online profit. We can’t do anything about other folks’ anti-Blackness. But we can, and must, do something about our own. Only Black pride and Black love will allow us to create the kind of reality for our people that will protect us from this madness, so we can give the world the reckoning they deserve, if we so choose.
Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month
June is not only Black Music Month. It’s also Caribbean American Heritage Month. This month, we celebrate the rich culture, history, music, food, and contributions of Afro-Caribbeans who have helped shape communities throughout America and the world. We honor our kin from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Cuba, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and all Caribbean nations. Many African Americans share deep cultural, historical, and family connections with the Caribbean. In fact, there’s no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Power Movement in the U.S. without the contributions of Afro-Caribbeans. The leader of the largest Pan-African movement the world has ever seen, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was an Afro-Caribbean from St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. Without Garvey, there’s no Red, Black, and Green flag; no movement across the African continent to kick out the colonizers; and no call for Pan-Africanism. So, raise a glass for the entire Afro-Caribbean family: activists like Stokely Carmichael (Trinidad), legendary writers like Audre Lorde (Grenada) and Claude McKay (Jamaica), and groundbreaking entertainers like Harry Belafonte (Jamaica), Cicely Tyson (Nevis), and Rihanna (Barbados). This month, we salute the spirit and global impact that unite us all.
Global ‘Sundown Town’ movement
Recently, social media posts reveal efforts by a group of people who want to “Make Vidor Great Again.” More specifically, they want to return Vidor, Texas, to its historic roots as a ‘Sundown Town,’ a place where Blackfolk knew/know to get the hell outta dodge before nightfall, or face murderous consequences. The posts show good ol’ boys approaching fellow whites to sign their Vidor “Sundown Town” petition. And from the posts, everyone’s “all white” with the idea. One of the leaders of this movement describes himself as “mixed race,” but he lets Vidor residents know it wasn’t by choice. But this isn’t just a Vidor thing. The Trump administration, following the Project 2025 playbook, established the Department of Remigration. It’s all about the U.S. government moving to remove all non-whites from the country. Sounds crazy, right? It used to be a fringe racist wet dream. Now, it has federal funding, institutional backing, and growing global buy-in. Recently, representatives of Western nations met in Portugal for a Global Remigration Conference, where they celebrated their movement’s exponential growth. They seek to make all European nations, Russia, the US, Argentina, and any other white or white-identifying nations literally colorless. You don’t have to believe me. Do your own research. But please know, we’d better embrace and support individuals, organizations, and movements that are unashamedly pro-Black, because other folks are declaring anti-Blackness with their full chest.
