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Eric Garner Choked To Death By Cop. In Broad Daylight. On Camera. Cop Gets Off. Fuck Everybody.
I don’t even know what to say now. Really, I don’t. Maybe I will later today or tomorrow. But now, I try to write and it feels like Groundhog Day. I could literally cut and paste everything I said the last two weeks about Michael Brown and just substitute Garner’s name for Brown’s, Staten Island for…
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Toni Morrison To Release New Novel, And I'm Preparing To Pretend To Understand It
There are not enough superlatives to describe the work of Toni Morrison, America’s greatest living novelist. The Bluest Eye isn’t just a great book, it’s there with Citizen Kane, What’s Going On, the iPhone, and Bria Myles as one of the best and most important artistic triumphs of the last century. She is your favorite writer’s favorite writer; the person who both…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 26. Solange Knowles
It might seem odd that Solange would appear on this list before Beyonce. After all, Beyonce is Beyonce and is loved by everyone. But people who love Beyonce don’t really love Beyonce. Because loving Beyonce is like loving oxygen or a recurring dream about a root beer float. You appreciate these things and might die without…
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Ray Rice Deserves A Second Chance…Just Not With Janay Rice
In the next couple of months, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice will continue to receive interest from NFL teams. In fact, there are a few teams who’ve reportedly already discussed the prospect of bringing him in. Someone — or several someones — will likely eventually invite him to their team’s facility for an…
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Why #ByeElizabeth Needs To Replace #ByeFelicia
I don’t know how things that become things become things. I just know that one day, something is not a thing. And then, the next day, that thing is a thing. You can argue that the surest way to make a thing a thing is for it to have a celebrity shout out. We can list…
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An Argument For Not Blocking Your Ridiculously Stupid And/Or Racist Facebook Friends
The last two weeks of November produced a vortex of news stories (Ferguson, Cosby, Ray Rice) everyone seems to have an opinion on. And, when everyone seems to have an opinion on something, that “everyone” includes “stupid and/or insensitive and/or racist motherfuckers.” Nowhere was this more evident than it was on Facebook, as these weeks…
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Thanksgiving And Shit
My wife and I are masochists, apparently. Because that would be the only reasonable explanation for us deciding to host somewhere between 30 and 35 members of our family for Thanksgiving this year. Actually, the real explanation is laziness. We’re both from Pittsburgh, which means that every holiday we’ve spent together has been spent shuffling from…
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Darren Wilson Is A Dick. Literally
Darren Wilson is a dick. Not in the figurative sense (although he is that too). No, I came to that conclusion after seeing the first clear images of him — the photos of the injuries he sustained while involved in the life-threatening altercation with the 8’4, 720 pound Michael Brown. Darren Wilson is dick, literally.…
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Ferguson Is Burning
I spent a couple hours this evening at a friend’s going away party. He recently accepted a job overseas, and 50 or so people gathered at SAVOY — a Black-owned restaurant in Pittsburgh’s Strip District — to see him off. The crowd was predominately male; (mostly) Black men ranging from the early 20s to the…
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12 Year Old Killed By Police; Darren Wilson Preps For TV Interview
It would be very difficult to find a juxtaposition that articulates how many Americans (Black and non-Black) feel about our country’s concept of justice better than two stories I read this morning. From Tamir Rice Shooting by Cleveland Police Under Investigation: The police shooting death of a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun in Cleveland…
