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  • For Colored People … When the Republican Convention Gets to Be Too Much: A Drinking Game

    Stephen Colbert has a bingo card to play during the Republican National Convention. But for women and people of color watching this year’s RNC, it’s going to be a long, hard slog with more than a few cringe-inducing and drink-worthy moments. Ways to survive the madness: Take a sip … every time anyone says, “Barack…

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    Charles Badger






    Published

    July 19, 2016
  • Imma Let You Finish, Hamilton, but Donald Trump Is the Best Politician-Rapper of All Time

    The musical Hamilton goes hard. But the Donald Trump Mixtape goes harder. My review: 1. He spits bars. Trump doesn’t give speeches; he freestyles. The Washington Post wrote, “Donald Trump says a lot of things twice.” But he’s not repeating himself. That’s just the hook. He invents whole new parts of speech: the past-tense clueless (“When…

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    Charles Badger






    Published

    June 18, 2016
  • Trump’s Secret Plan to Win the Presidency: Pitting Minorities Against One Another

    In this election, Donald Trump has used a grieving black father’s loss to try to pit black voters against Mexican immigrants. He employs black spokespeople to tell black voters that immigrants are taking their jobs. He tweets false crime statistics as a ploy to get black people to talk about “black-on-black” crime and distract from…

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    Charles Badger






    Published

    May 24, 2016
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