Dwayne Wade and his transgender child launch community providing a 'safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth,' especially those of color



NBA legend Dwyane Wade launched an online community providing a "safe space" for transgender youth. Helping Wade announce the new website focusing on LGBTQ communities of color was Zaya Wade — the 16-year-old child of the former Miami Heat star, who publicly transitioned to a transgender individual from a biological male at the age of 12.

The website is called Translatable — a self-described "safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth to express themselves and is a resource hub for their parents, families, and support systems."

The famous father and child launched Translatable in a video released on Thursday.

"Translatable, aims to serve as a community safe space for youth to express themselves through a number of creative outlets," Zaya says in the video. "Here at Translatable, we focus on communities of color, center the most marginalized, and emphasize the importance of parents and family."

The NBA Hall of Famer adds, "Translatable was also a resource hub for parents, families, and support system of the LGBTQIA+ youth. For our family, we were blessed to have a community of supporters and knowledgeable experts who could swiftly arm us with the tools we needed to support Zaya and her journey."

"We recognize the lack of digestible and relatable information available to youth and families, especially communities of color," Dwayne continues. "And to this day, we are still learning."

Wade says he is "so very proud of the daughter I've had the opportunity to raise."

"She has been my biggest educator and inspiration of what it means to be true to you," the basketball star stresses. "That's why it's so important to create a collaborative space for the community to participate in the conversation and express themselves freely."

Wade concludes, "We want to emphasize that the learning never stops. You can expect to see ever-evolving content and resources to keep you up to date and Translatable."

Last week, Dwayne Wade was presented with the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award in "recognition of his advocacy for the transgender community and for his work with the Wade Family Foundation."

Wade – who reportedly has a net worth of $170 million – was also awarded $250,000 in unrestricted funding for winning the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award. Wade said he would channel the money into the Translatable endeavor.

Carolina Garcìa Jayaram – the Elevate Prize Foundation’s CEO – said, "Dwyane Wade epitomizes the ethos of our foundation. His influence extends beyond the sports arena into social justice, a realm he has championed since early in his NBA career. Wade's public support for trans rights, especially after Zaya came out, has been deeply inspirational."

Zaya Wade was originally named Zion Malachi Airamis Wade. Zaya – who turns 17 this week – had desired to transition to the opposite gender since the age of 3, according to her father.

Wade legally made a name change and officially switched genders after a six-month court battle in February 2023.

Siohvaughn Funches-Wade — Zaya's mother and ex-wife of Wade — objected to her child's transgender transition throughout the legal process. The mother wanted to delay the teen's ability to legally change genders until the minor was an adult.

However, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled in favor of allowing the teen to switch genders.

As Blaze News reported in April 2023, Wade revealed that he moved his family out of Florida over the state's LBGTQ laws.

Wade said in an interview at the time, "A lot of people don't know that. I have to make decisions for my family, not just personal, individual decisions."

He noted that he loves Miami, and Florida's tax benefits are desirable, but added, "My family would not be accepted or feel comfortable there. And so that's one of the reasons why I don't live there."

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'Sex in the City' reboot sends woke message in very first episode as Miranda 'humiliates herself' interacting with black professor



The anxiously awaited revival of "Sex in the City" — a new series titled "And Just Like That" — unveiled its first episode Thursday and picks up with the characters' lives a whopping 17 years after the original series ended in 2004.

Naturally, the characters have gone through a lot of changes — and the world also has changed a great deal. And the first episode of the new series addresses one of those changes: the birth of left-wing woke culture (i.e., the rise of transgenderism and the centrality of "personal pronouns," policing speech, canceling those who break woke rules, and the so-called "racial reckoning" that swept across America in recent years, to name a few).

What happened?

One plot element from episode 1 involves the character Miranda. According to Vulture, Miranda left corporate law "after being inspired by her time assisting those affected by the Muslim ban" and is going back to school to get a master's in human rights.

And a scene that's raising some eyebrows across social media shows Miranda's first day of class, during which she "completely humiliates herself," the outlet said.

Clearly much older than her fellow students, Miranda notices a woman entering the classroom and is surprised the black woman with braids and informal clothes is the professor.

Then Miranda apparently misgenders an individual in the classroom she believed is male, after which that person shot back, "Someone's quick with the pronouns."

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @MythinformedMKE

And it keeps getting worse. Miranda begins to babble, trying to rescue herself.

When the professor questions Miranda, saying, "A law professor can't have hair like mine? Why is that?" Miranda replies that "my comment had nothing whatsoever to do with it being a black hairstyle. I, I knew that you were black when I signed up for this class. That was important to me."

Oh, no.

The professor leans forward and asks, "You signed up for this class because I'm black?"

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @MythinformedMKE

Miranda then continues to feverishly bail water from her sinking ship, complimenting what she's heard about the professor's activism, and then issues yet another faux pas: "God, I sound like such a brown-nose!"

Silence from the room, as if to inquire, "What do you mean by brown?"

But Miranda just won't cut her losses. She tries to diminish the importance of hairstyles by saying she lets her hair go gray and that she's not concerned "if that makes me look old. Not that I'm ageist. Do I sound ageist?"

"You really want me to answer that question?" the professor smugly responds as the apparent transgender individual nods and smiles victoriously at Miranda.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @MythinformedMKE

Check out the un-woke train wreck:

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Anything else?

Vulture noted that the scene "doesn’t completely ring true. Would Miranda really be so nervous about saying the wrong thing 'in this climate' that she’d have this wild case of verbal diarrhea in which she goes on and on (and on!) about the braids of her professor, Dr. Nya Wallace, and being excited to have a Black teacher for this course?"

The outlet also observed that "it's clear" the scene is part of an attempt "to deal with the fact that the original series was so out of touch when it came to race, so … maybe it’s this cringey on purpose?"

It's worth it to note that Miranda is played by actress Cynthia Nixon, who's a well-known left-wing political activist and LGBTQ advocate who ran for New York governor in 2018 — which likely made the scene either very easy or very difficult for her to pull off.

How did observers react?

Commenters on Twitter indicated they're hip to the goal of the scene — and they don't like it one bit:

  • "Funny that our cringe reaction to the entire scene resembles the intended reaction of the professor & students cringing at the clumsy white Karen in the scene," one commenter said. "We would all be better off if Karen would stop her woke-simping."
  • "This little skit is a blatant attack on white women, making them look dumb and racist," another user declared. "Shameful."
  • "Sickening," another user said. "Written by white haters. Dismal attempt at cringe humor — it’s just cringe."
  • "So contrived and cringe. Such a fake scenario. When real racism doesn't present itself in sufficient quantities to feed the narrative, they produce convenient content," another commenter noticed. "When was this produced? Was it prepared for the Juicy Smollett verdict and strategically released? Tiresome."

Joe Rogan shellacks Colin Kaepernick for comparing playing in the NFL to slavery: 'What the f*** are you talking about?'



Colin Kaepernick equated being an NFL player to slavery in his new Netflix series, "Colin in Black & White." The "disgusting" comparison was met with major backlash online. The six-part Netflix docudrama series was also shellacked by Joe Rogan.

The Netflix TV show compared NFL players at a combine to a slave auction with a cotton field background. The "Colin in Black & White" series attempted to make a comparison between NFL owners and plantation slave owners from the late eighteenth century.

In a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the UFC commentator asked fellow comedian and podcaster Theo Von, "Did you see that Netflix special where Colin Kaepernick is comparing the NFL to slavery?"

Von immediately mocked Kaepernick by calling him "Throwsa Parks," a joke about the former quarterback attempting to be a civil rights activist.

Rogan lambasted Kaepernick, "It is the dumbest comparison."

Von jumped in and said, "That is the lamest — I did try to watch it. It makes me sad. It makes me sad because it feels like the lowest — it's like the lowest pandering for racism that you could create. It's almost infantile, the pandering of it. And I think it takes away from, like, real racist s**t."

Rogan bashed Kaepernick, "Imagine comparing the ability to do it or not do it, you sign up for it, everybody — like, so many people who play football want to be in the NFL. It's a goal. It's a dream. You can make millions of dollars. And imagine comparing that to slavery simply because they measure people's physical performance."

"That's what he's doing; he was measuring like wingspans and the combine scores, like for weightlifting and speed and all that stuff," Rogan said of the slavery scene in the show. "That's to see how physically adept you are, how good you're gonna be at football, so they'll give you tons of money."

"The idea that this is comparable to slavery, whoever f***ing wrote that down and then he — the fact that he read it and said it, and then they had that video where they're comparing the NFL owners to the slave masters and they're shaking hands with each other," Rogan said, then emphatically prodded, "What the f*** are you talking about?"

Content warning: explicit language

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This isn't the first time that Kaepernick has been blasted by a member of the UFC. In July, UFC star Jorge Masvidal went on a tirade against the NFL quarterback-turned-activist for praising Fidel Castro.

After a 2016 photo of Kaepernick wearing a T-shirt with Castro on it resurfaced, Masvidal told Kaepernick to learn some history about Cuba.

"Cowards like this fool should be sent to live in Cuba see what they say after a day there," Masvidal wrote on Instagram.

When the controversy over Kaepernick wearing the shirt featuring the oppressive communist dictator first erupted in 2016, the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback took a shot at the United States.

"We do break up families here," Kaepernick stated. "That's what mass incarceration is. That was the foundation of slavery. So our country has been based on that as well as the genocide of Native Americans."

Colin Kaepernick equates being an NFL player to slavery in Netflix special, gets obliterated online as 'shameless con artist'



Colin Kaepernick has a new special on Netflix, where he equates being an NFL player to slavery. The internet unmercifully ridiculed the comparison.

"Colin in Black and White" is a six-part docudrama series on Netflix "recounting his formative years navigating race, class, and culture while aspiring for greatness."

The series will detail "Kaepernick's life growing up as the Black adopted son in a white family living in Turlock, California, as well as social commentary discussing the history of racism within professional sports," according to IndieWire.

Kaeperick's special debuted on the streaming giant on Friday, and one particular scene was panned brutally on social media a day later.

The clip showed Kapernick at an NFL combine or training camp,

An overly dramatic Kaepernick points at NFL coaches, then looks at the camera and says, "What they don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic."

"Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you," the melodramatic Kaepernick states. "Searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respected, no dignity left intact."

The NFL players – all black – then leave the field and walk back in time to a slave auction with a cotton field background. As the white slaveowners examine the slaves that are chained, a clip of a football coach looks at the wingspan of a football player. Then the screen flashed back to the slave auction, where a slave owner then shakes hands with a current-day football coach.

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The over-the-top clip was obliterated on social media for trivializing the horrors of slavery and comparing it to athletes willingly accepting millions of dollars to play sports – including Kaepernick, who made over $43 million during his six-year NFL career.

Super Bowl-winning NFL player turned Congressman Burgess Owens: "How dare @Kaepernick7 compare the evil endured by so many of our ancestors to a bunch of millionaires who CHOSE to play game."

TheBlaze contributor Delano Squires: "I find Kaepernick's support of police/prison abolition a lot more problematic than this. William Rhoden, author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves, and others have been making this comparison for a long time. It's silly and dishonors the past, but I'm not surprised."

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh: "Kaepernick spent half a decade crying that NFL teams wouldn't give him a shot and now he's decided that actually being an NFL player is like being a slave. This dude is the most obvious and shameless con artist in modern American history."

Former Nevada GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian: "The last time I checked, not one pro athlete is beaten into submission, raped, or killed. Many have obscene contracts while playing the victim. Kaepernick has hit an all-time low. It's disgusting that he chooses to make money by amplifying this BS."

Podcast host Lauren Chen: "No, Colin Kaepernick. Being a millionaire athlete is not like being a slave."

Fox Sports radio host Doug Gottlieb: "But he wants to play? I'm so confused by this… so #NFL teams are supposed to draft players w/o evals? By not signing him did the league 'free' Kap? Slavery was forced labor, the #NFL compensates you well. Someone make sense of this plz."

Former NFL player Jake Bequette: "This clip is pathetic. We chose to play the game that we loved and we were paid well to do it. Shame on @netflix, @Nike, and the @NFL for embracing @Kaepernick7's antics and his disgraceful message."

Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg: "These fools are minimizing the evils of slavery. Paying millionaires to play a game they love is not exactly the same thing as chattel slavery. And if I were to suggest it was I'd be called a racist — and rightly so."

Outkick founder Clay Travis: "Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine, which allows all players of all races a voluntary chance to become multi-millionaires, to slavery. Anyone still defending this imbecile lacks a functional brain."

Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair: "Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL to actual slave trade I must've missed the part where slaves were paid $43 MILLION like Kaepernick? What a spoiled loser."

Independent journalist Zaid Jilani: "If Kaepernick wants to learn about slavery he could start by asking his employer Nike how they produce goods in China."

Professor makes ‘average white’ student stand up in lecture, explains he has inherent 'benefit’ over black student no 'matter what he does'



A professor at Penn State University recently made an "average white" student stand up in front of a 700-person lecture hall and explained that he has an inherent "benefit" over any black student, regardless of his behavior.

What happened?

Dr. Sam Richards, a popular sociology professor at the Pennsylvania school, was attempting to demonstrate the effects of systemic racism last month when he executed the unusual classroom illustration.

"I just take the average white guy in class, whoever it is, it doesn't really matter," Richards said as he approached a section of students.

"Dude, this guy here. Stand up, bro. What's your name, bro?" the professor then asked telling a student named Russell to stand up and face the class.

"Look at Russell, right here, it doesn't matter what he does," Richards continued. "If I match him up with a black guy in class, or a brown guy, even ... who's just like him, has the same GPA, looks like him, walks like him, talks like him, acts in a similar way, has been involved in the same groups on campus, takes the same leadership positions, whatever it is ... and we send them into the same jobs ... Russell has a benefit of having white skin."

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What else?

Only moments earlier, the professor brought a black student and a white student up in front of class before point-blank asking the white student what he thinks about his privilege.

"Bro, how does it feel knowing that [when] push comes to shove your skin's kind of nice?" Richards asked the student, putting him on the spot.

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"I don't know, it makes me feel sad," the student answered.

The nonprofit group that posted clips of the lecture on Twitter, Mythinformed MKE, noted that "critical race theory pedagogy divides people and assigns worth based solely on race" and that while this lecture was given to a college class, similar teaching has entered into elementary school curricula.

The full lecture, which took place on June 30, can be viewed on YouTube.

Anything else?

Richards, who often discusses race relations at the university, is well known for his unorthodox teaching style. His classroom antics have resulted in a WPSU-Penn State television production known as "You Can't Say That."

Based on clips used in the show's trailer, Richards is well accustomed to espousing controversial views in outlandish ways. The ones highlighted in this article are only the tip of the iceberg.

In an interview last year with Onward State, Richards alleged that "people are not getting all the stories of people who are really peacefully assembling and just getting the s**t beat out of them by the police for no reason whatsoever."

"If that happens once it's a problem, but it's happening again and again. It should be disturbing to people," he added.

Villanova assistant professor advocates for critical race theory because it has Marxist roots, relates it to religion



While many have been trying to hide any correlations and links between critical race theory and Marxism, one assistant professor openly admits that CRT is based on the teachings of socialist revolutionary Karl Marx.

Glenn Bracey, an assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova, is a strong proponent of critical race theory because it has Marxist roots. Bracey made the admission during a remote discussion about critical race theory on Zoom. The seminar was posted on Villanova's official YouTube channel, which turned off comments on the video titled: "What is Critical Race Theory?"

Bracey appeared to promote critical race theory at the private Catholic institution by comparing the controversial ideology to religion.

"Given the power frankly of the church to move politics, given its funding, given how so many people come to the academy first with the church as a large backdrop in their lives, it's important that we as critical race theorists be able to speak to them on their terms," Bracey said, according to the Post Millennial. "So I would say that we as critical race theorists should continue to be aggressive in promoting critical race theory, that we should us say how it relates to spirituality and religion in particular."

Bracey then admits that the anti-racist ideology of CRT is rooted in Marxism.

"So the core question for critical race theory is one of releasing people, especially people of color, especially black people, from the oppressive systems that deny us access to our species being, including racism. It's Marxism," the assistant professor stated.

"Marxism is fundamentally a spiritual concern, and it's the same spiritual concern that Evangelical Christians have, and that they believe that all people are made in the image of God, and they are endowed by their creator with special abilities, creativity, individuality that needs to be manifested in the world," he said.

"So the church and critical race theory actually have the same purpose with respect to the Marxist origins, even though Evangelicals don't seem to recognize that," he added.

"Evangelical Christians are very upset about critical race theory because it is self-consciously grounded in Marxism," Bracey proclaimed. "Now, when Evangelical Christians hear critical race theory is grounded in Marxism, what they hear is, religion is opiate of the masses, that religion is a distraction from justice, that religion is nothing more than fictions that are—that make people deviate from reality."

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"Racism is the everyday operation of our American system," Bracey declared. "Racism is permanent. Not because of objective reasoning … but because whites are fixated on blackness and anti-blackness, and they orient different other racial groups in the middle of white and black in order to protect their own superiority."

"In other words, racism is something that white people could decide to give up," he continued. "They could change the social [relationships], they could change the way that they, their anti-blackness, but they won't."

On Bracey's profile page on the Villanova website, he lists his "areas of expertise" as race and politics, sociology, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, race and law, social movements, and Colin Kaepernick.

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'Anti-racist' white teacher stopped teaching Spanish to students because she is 'dismantling white supremacy in society'



A white teacher proclaimed that she is "dismantling white supremacy in society" by not teaching Spanish to her students. The anti-racist teacher proclaimed that she is holding herself accountable for her skin color by grappling with her own "internalized white supremacy."

Jessica Bridges is a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Education and Human Sciences at Oklahoma State University. She made "anti-racism and white women's complicity" her dissertation topic.

Bridges spoke at Southern Connecticut State University's Virtual Women's and Gender Studies Conference, a two-day event in late April that focused on "Gender, Race, Community & Conflict: Pursuing Peace and Justice." The conference included presentations such as "Diverging Feminisms: Engaging Transnational/Translational Activism," "Sex, Work, & Care as Resistance in the Age of Capitalism," "Undoing the White Settler-Colonial Gaze: Asserting Gendered, Racialized, and Radicalized Body Autonomy," "Understanding Your Vicarious Trauma during COVID-19 and Beyond," and "Igniting Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Diversity within the Neoliberal Academy."

Bridges spoke during the "White Accountability & Anti-Racist Education" presentation.

The meeting started off with a "land acknowledgment," which is a "formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of this land and the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories," according to Northwestern University.

"Dismantling white supremacy in society looks like dismantling in my heart, first," Bridges said, as reported by the Post Millennial. "It means I'm not going to teach Spanish. Accountability is ongoing because there is not end to the process."

It should be noted that the Spanish language came from Europe. It was a mix of Latin language and local languages of the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula, including Celts and Iberians, according to Lingvist.

"Learning Spanish from a white woman? I wish I could go back and tell my students not to learn power or correctness from this white woman," she said of herself. "I would tell them to stand in their own power. White isn't right."

Bridges continued, "Racism originates with, and is perpetuated by white people."

"We're deconstructing our emotions around acknowledging our whiteness and white privilege through the lens of grief and the process of grief," Bridges declared. "I have been complicit as a part of the educational system and as a white woman benefitting from white privilege."

"We talked about mourning our white morality. I'm holding myself accountable to this journey," Bridges added. "Part of my accountability is to continue to struggle and grapple with my internalized white supremacy."

Bridges said that as a K-12 teacher, she has been "embedded in a system that some scholars have identified as reproducing social injustice. Consciously, or unconsciously."

Bridges pledged to be a "white ally" and "anti-racist coconspirator."

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Also during the critical race theory-themed session, a Southern Connecticut State University professor said schools need to "attract anti-racist teachers," who "teach through an equity, anti-racist lens." She also claims that test scores shouldn't be the barometer of "good schools," but instead quality learning institutions are measured by the "perspective of teachers being engaged in communities."

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The full "White Accountability & Anti-Racist Education" presentation can be seen below.

2021 WGS SCSU Conference Session B4: White Accountability & Anti-Racist Education www.youtube.com

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Woke Oregon teacher warns colleagues they'll be 'fired' if they don't 'come to the light' and become 'anti-racist'



An Oregon eighth-grade teacher was recorded on a Zoom video session warning fellow teachers they will be "fired" if they don't "come to the light" and become "anti-racist."

What are the details?

Katherine Watkins — a humanities teacher at Cedar Park Middle School in the Beaverton School District — was decked out in what appeared to be African-inspired garb as she introduced herself with the pronouns "she, her, we, and us."

Then later in the session she declared, "I'm gonna say somethin' that's not nice and not sweet, but it's true" — and then read her colleagues the riot act.

If you're not evolving into an anti-racist educator, you're making yourself obsolete. ... Our district is only getting browner and browner [with respect to students]. ... Obviously, you can't change your melanin, all right? But you can change your mind so that you can actually function in a district that is full of BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color] children. So if you're being resistant, I understand that. But you're gonna have to eventually come to the light. Because if you're going to keep with those old views of colonialism, it's gonna lead to being fired. Because you're going to be doing damage to our children — trauma. And so as we fire the teachers who sexually abuse our children, we will be firing the teachers who do racist things to our children and traumatize them. And while our district might not be completely on there, [the Oregon Education Association] is working on it, all right? [The National Education Association] is working on it. And so it's just a matter of time; so it's like you either evolve or dissolve.

Here's the clip:

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The Daily Caller said it reached out to the Beaverton School District for comment but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

Anything else?

Watkins' LinkedIn page indicates she's an "Antiracist Educator" who's "Racial Trauma Informed" and also is a speaker and writer. She's been a teacher since 1998, has taught in the Beaverton School District for more than 16 years, and holds master's degrees in education and creative writing.

The above clip was taken from a longer session on adopting anti-racism in the district. At the beginning of the session Watkins introduces herself along with others. Later in the session — just after the 23-minute mark — she launches into her "not nice and not sweet" speech.

The group that posted the longer session to YouTube — Parents Defending Education — indicated in the clip's description that the session took place in February and was titled "Equity ABAR Summit: If Not You Then Who?" The description said "ABAR" stands for "anti-bias, anti-racism" teaching related to critical race theory. And as TheBlaze has reported, many folks are pushing back hard against critical race theory.