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On Believing In "Black Love" But Not Really Liking Black People
The idea of “Black Love” died a thousand internet deaths yesterday when news broke of the Amber Rose, Wiz Khalifa split. They appeared to be such a happy couple. He makes music for Black kids who smoke weed in Macy’s dressing rooms and the adults who smoked weed in Macy’s dressing rooms as kids, and she…
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The Definitive List Of The 10 Least Likable Black People
Watching Yung Berg on Love and Hip-Hop Hollywood last night reminded me of how historically unlikable he is. Which made me wonder where he’d rank on a list of the least likable Black people, which then made me wonder who else would be on the list. 10. Wendy Williams Has made a career out of…
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Beyonce Derangement Hyperbole Syndrome
I met a dozen or so people for brunch Sunday afternoon, a meet-up that was the brainchild of my wife and one of her friends to combine our collective love of bacon and bottomlessness to a need to do something about the disconnect in the Black professional population here instead of just talking about it.…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 21. Panels, Conferences, And Conventions
If you ever happened to be in dire need of 300 or so Bougie Black People and had no idea how to find them, go to Kinkos and create a flyer for a panel, conference, or convention. When done at Kinkos, create an Eventbrite page. And make sure to have a registration fee. Then, create…
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The Definitive List Of The 25 Best Booties Of All-Time
25. Everyone in Raekwon’s “Ice Cream” video 24. BernNadette Stanis 23. Jennifer Lopez 22. Tamron Hall 21. Your auntie on your mom’s side, whose gravity-defying, thicker than two-day-old grits ass is the reason why your Nana use to carry a .22 20. Phyllis Yvonne Stickney 19. Michelle Obama 18. Florence Griffin-Joyner 17. Kenya Moore 16. Melanie Martin 15.…
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The Blackest Thing We've Seen This Week
Why this Kool-Aid ad featuring Malcolm Jamal-Warner, brought to our attention by Tonja Stidhum, is the Blackest thing we’ve seen all week. 1. There is no single food Blacker than the Kool-Aid packet. Not greens, not chitlins, not salt, not nothing. Imagine Cornell West playing dominoes at Rucker Park in Harlem. That’s how Black the…
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Why Roger Goodell Is Not Getting Fired Any Time Soon
I play basketball every Thursday night. It’s a weekly game that has apparently been going on for decades. A group of 15 to 20 guys — varying in age and skill level — meet at Central Catholic high school, play for a couple hours, and drink beer afterwards. For someone like me, who still has…
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Leaked: More Danny Ferry NBA Scouting Reports
The odd circumstances leading to Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson selling his interest in the team apparently stem from racially insensitive comments made by general manager Danny Ferry during a conference call in June, an act that led to the internal investigation of the Hawks and Levenson self-reporting his own racially tinged comments. What exactly…
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Exactly How Racist Was Atlanta Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson's Email?
It was quite a weekend in sports. Serena won again, the NFL proved (again) that we’re all hypocrites, and Steph Curry decided to go all Steph Curry against Mexico. He must be racist. For me, though, the most interesting sports-related item was the news that Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson would be selling his share…
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Ray Rice And The "Well, Actually…" People
There are few internet people less liked than the “Well, actually…” person. You know who they are. Some story breaks with someone doing or saying something shitty, and the maddeningly contrarian “Well, actually…” person starts their spiel, which is usually some combination of myopic condescension shrouded in faux objectivity. “Well, actually we don’t know all…
