From The Editor: Survival Tactics For The Coming Days [Call for Essays]

It’s possible I’m writing this in the absence of not knowing what to write. It’s possible that this post wouldn’t exist if I could find a way to pull all the crow feathers from my own mouth long enough to say everything I want to say. There is a term that has existed for decades: Elections Have Consequences. And whatever scale those consequences may take, this is always, always true. But that does not make this past election and its results typical in any fashion. There is losing an election to a candidate you don’t support or agree with and then there is losing an election to a candidate that has been openly hostile, violent and predatory towards yourself, people that look like you, identify like you and the people you love and hold dear. And not the fear-stoked “Obama is going to take our guns away” media complex propaganda. But hate rhetoric from their very own, unabashed and emboldened tongue. Don’t let people tell you this is same ol same ol. It’s not. And even if it were, that certainly doesn’t mean we should be silent and complacent in it just because we have endured threats to our person before. At Black Nerd Problems, we exist to provide a voice that is more diverse than where you normally get your commentary on pop culture. We employ writers and contributors that identify as the very people that a brazen war has been waged against on Trump’s march to the White House, supported by the people who wished us to be mute or background in the first place. But that’s not wh…