04/21/2026
“Why do you continue to show if there are so many racists?”
Anti-Blackness isn’t regional. It’s global. It is not isolated. It is worldwide. Being in America, where the racism is sewn into the very fabric of the nation, there is no hobby available where racism isn’t prevalent. Even things like cosplay. We can’t even dress up as fictional characters without hearing, “Hinata isn’t Black.” Well, she gonna be Black today.
A year and one week ago today Nottaway plantation burned to the ground in Louisiana. Black people rightfully celebrated. White people lamented the loss of history and architecture. They mourned the loss of a *wedding venue*.
A house that held Black people prisoner was used as a space of matrimonial celebration by white people. That mattered more to them than the abused souls who had no choice but to live there. We are still viewed as less important than a damn house.
To add insult to grievous injury, when told that enslaved people would’ve been the ones to build that house, white people vehemently denied it. They said there’s no way they would possess that level of craftsmanship. Really? The people who were forced to do every bit of labor possible didn’t have the skills for building?
Those white people refused to hear the truth the same way they refuse to listen to me about judges like Desmond Murphy. It’s staring them right in the face and they will not acknowledge it. A kennel club didn’t even want to remove the noose (you read it right) from their club logo because “It wasn’t for Black people, the town hung criminals.” It’s weird and wild anybody ever thought that was appropriate in the first place. Who uses an ex*****on method as a logo for a dog club???
Calling out this behavior would be a necessity regardless of the hobby, because white people will not acknowledge wrongdoing on their own. Some don’t see it because they’re ignorant and pay attention, others see it, like it, and refuse to change, and still others see it, dislike it, but care more about their own comfort and success than they do progress.
The entire civil rights movement was about forcing that acknowledgment and accountability for it. The current presidential administration is doing everything it can to roll back protections for BIPOC (and q***r) people. RFK Jr. says Black children with ADHD need to be sent to “re-parenting”camps. We’re “over prescribed” medications. Funny, since we’re less likely to receive a diagnosis at all (especially girls…I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 36).
The majority of racist judges I know are breed specialists, meaning that it is far more feasible to tell people not to enter under them. They only judge one breed. They’re easy to avoid. This is not the case for any multi-breed, multi-group judge who happens to be a bigot. These judges save clubs money because they cover so much of the panel. Saving money is a necessity in this current economy. It shouldn’t take precedence over weeding out bigots, though.
Black people deserve to have hobbies. We don’t deserve this constant resistance to change, nor the persistent dismissal of our concerns. We’re allowed to be upset and speak on it. And we are allowed to have a “tone”. White people are going to think we have one regardless, because they can’t help but feel attacked when they have that brief flash of recognition that they’re part of the problem. Instead of processing it, they make their hurt feelings our fault.
If you feel annoyed, off-put, or any negative sort of way about reading this, imagine how I feel living it? Because I have to consider all of these things as a Black breeder and exhibitor. I don’t get to put blinders on about it.
I am not begging people to be better. I am demanding it.
