LeRon Barton
Slate
San Diego, CA, United States
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Past articles by LeRon:
I’m Black. Remote Work Has Been Great for My Mental Health.
How many racist scenarios, comments, and situations would I have avoided enduring if I didn’t need to come into the office? → Read More
How Racism Keeps Black Americans In Debt
Institutional And Systemic Racism Have Kept Black People In Poverty Since Slavery, And One African American Man Shares How Racial Wealth Inequality (i.e., The Wealth Gap) Affected Him, As Well As How He Got Out Of Debt And Learned Financial Literacy. → Read More
How I Overcame My Fear of Stuttering [Video]
I was given the opportunity to speak at TEDxWilsonPark called "How I Overcame My Fear of Stuttering. In this talk, I speak about growing up with a speech → Read More
My Reality: 10 Truths About Being Black in America
The purse clutch. Being a fetish. LeRon Barton talks about what it really means to be black in America. → Read More
#PermitPatty and #BBQBecky: 911 is a Joke
“Why don’t Black people call the police on white people as much as white people call on Black people? Maybe it is because Black people don’t see police as protectors?” → Read More
#LivingWhileBlack
How do you answer what #LivingWhileBlack is in any context? → Read More
Does America Love Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
How to untangle the threads of hypocrisy White America has woven around Dr. King. → Read More
The Long Fight: Parkland Kids vs. America
Is the right to bear arms as American as baseball, apple pie, and racism? → Read More
Talk to Learn and Not to Respond
Is the object of a conversation or debate to win or to learn? → Read More
Imposters Syndrome and the Pursuit of Excellence in a White World
Can you imagine what it is like to be told that you can do anything? The world is yours? You have all the power and nothing is holding you back? I don’t. → Read More
Men of Today are Feeling the Pinch
I hear the talk in the locker rooms, at lunch, or at the bar. “They’re getting everybody! You can’t look at a woman, pay her a compliment, or even try and talk to her without someone saying “sexual harassment.” → Read More
Traveling Doesn't Make You Better Than Anyone
Today, if you were to ask me why I travel, I would give you two answers. One, for the stories to tell people – I love to recount the tales of my trips! → Read More
The Aftermath of Victory is a Messy Intersection
Doug Jones, Roy Moore, #MeToo, Black Voters, and the White Supremacist power structure. → Read More
Musing on Survival: Living in the Ghetto and the Near Inevitability of Prison
To all of my young guys out here waffling, not knowing if they are doing the right thing or not, I am here with you. → Read More
Black Like He and I: The Man-Not and the Fight to Humanize Black Men and Boys
A Black man writing a book to humanize Black men and boys: it couldn't have come at a better time for me and everyone else. → Read More
It’s Okay for Boys to Cry
Why we should raise emotionally healthy men. → Read More
Using Uber While Black
Another reminder of being Black in America. → Read More
Men and the Need to be Vulnerable
We are lost if we don’t allow ourselves to sit in our feelings, process pain, and become comfortable with showing our emotions. → Read More
Pulling Up Your Pants Will Not Save You
Respectability politics and victim blaming: "If you just straighten your clothes, speak without Ebonics, act more white, and pull up your pants, you will be accepted." → Read More
Stop Sharing Black Pain
Nothing has really changed and we still haven’t asked ourselves how this is affecting the Black psyche and especially the young Black psyche. → Read More