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The Term ‘White Tears’ Is Funny, but What It Often Leads to Isn’t
There aren’t many recently invented terms in our cultural lexicon that I enjoy using more than I enjoy using “white tears”—the phrase created to describe what happens when certain types of white people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a nonwhite person’s success at the supposed expense of a white…
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Johari Osayi Idusuyi (The Woman Reading At The Trump Rally) Is The Blackest Person Who Ever Lived This Week
Donald Trump is not a legitimate candidate for president. Sure, Donald Trump is running for president. And it seems like he will likely be the Republican nominee. And he might even be the president! This, unfortunately, is not a far-fetched reality. But even if President Trump becomes a reality, Donald Trump has never been and will never…
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Dear Black People: This HBCU VS PWI Battle Is Fucking Stupid
There’s been no shortage of words used to attempt to describe and encapsulate “Black Twitter,” which has been defined as everything from “a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community” by Wikipedia to (paraphrasing) “the digital version of what happens at the 24-hour Walmart in Huntsville, Alabama” by Panama on…
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How The University Of Missouri Is Drowning In White Tears, Explained
Can you explain what “White Tears” are again? Sure. “White Tears” is phrase to describe what happens when certain types of White people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a non-White person’s success at the expense of a White person. It encompasses (and makes fun of) the performative struggle to…
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What's More Of A Sandwich: A Taco Or A Hot Dog?
Debates on the sandwich merits of hot dogs and tacos, separately, can be found everywhere from The Atlantic and NFL locker rooms to The Guardian and actual dates actual people actually go on where they spend actual hours crafting complex analogies to explain why hot dogs aren’t sandwiches, but gyros might be. Now, I’m not here to make…
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Why the NFL Probably Won’t Fix Its Greg Hardy Problem … or Any Problem
Last week, Deadspin released images of the bruises Nicole Holder received when assaulted by then-boyfriend Greg Hardy, a star defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys, who, at the time of the assault, played for the Carolina Panthers. The images were included in an extensive and harrowing piece from Diana Moskovitz on the assault. And even…
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The University Of Missouri Football Boycott Is The Biggest American Protest Of The 21st Century
I wasn’t alive in the 50s and 60s and 70s when mass boycotts to protest racial injustice was more commonplace and more infused with our national cultural zeitgeist. I, like most of you, am very aware of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other, less publicized, boycotts (like the New Orleans citizens boycott). But, again, reading about the…
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This Painting Of Ben Carson And Jesus in Ben Carson's Home Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week
So many questions from this picture, discovered during a recent tour of Ben Carson’s home, including… 1. Who painted this? Do you think the people at the portrait store laughed when Ben Carson walked in and asked if someone could paint him and Black Klingon Jesus hanging out in a YMCA sauna, or do the people at…
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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Talk About Your Ex on the Internet Like Eric Benét and David Justice Did
Earlier this week, a middle-aged black man named “David” and another middle-aged black man named “Eric” bonded over the memory of an ex they share. According to them, this ex’s public persona was much different from her private one, and since they were both painted as “the person in the wrong” when each of their…
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Hillary Crosley Coker Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
Hillary Crosley Coker writes for Jezebel, founded Parlor Magazine, and is the best person to know if you ever need to find “Hmm. That really wasn’t all that bad. I’ve had worse tacos” tacos in SoHo. And since I take taco recommendations quite seriously, this is more than enough for her to qualify as a Writing Ass Chick…
