Resting Our Eyes
From boycotts without picket lines to refusing the role of public martyr, Black America is practicing a new form of resistance—one that starves a spectacle-driven system of the attention it craves.
Y’all feel that? That quiet? It’s spooky, ain’t it? It’s 2026, and for the first time in four hundred years, Black folks just… shut the fuck up.
For as long as we’ve been here, the unspoken rule was that when America caught fire, we were the volunteer fire department. We were expected to run toward the heat, wave the …




