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  • Why Prerinsing Dishes Is a Dumb and Stupid Thing No One Should Ever Do, Explained

    No. Dishes are trite and boring. Dishes are staff meetings and Drake’s tattoos. Dishes are the dishes of dinnerware. It’s an entire explainer about prerinsing dishes. Which is an important distinction. There were bad people … on both sides. Imagine you’re sitting on some sort of seating device, holding a plate filled with food on…

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  • Magical Negroes, Ranked

    20. Candyman from Candyman (was definitely a Magical Negro—just had misguided magic) 19. Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost 18. Whoopi Goldberg on The View 17. Hitch 16. Uncle Ben 15. Olivia Pope 14. Shaq (and not Shaq in Kazaam, but just Shaq, generally) 13. Anthony Mackie in The Adjustment Bureau 12. Djimon Hounsou in everything 11.…

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  • I Don’t Know How to Convince R. Kelly Fans That They Should Give a Shit About Black Girls

    What separates R. Kelly—specifically, the support of him, the defense of him and the wagons circling around him—from most other notable moral quandaries is the lack of any sort of reasonable justification for any continued Kelly-centric advocacy or patronage. For instance, it’s no secret now that Chick-fil-A has donated considerable resources to fight against marriage…

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  • 20 Things White People Ruined Already This Year

    1. Tiki torches 2. Teacups 3. The solar eclipse 4. The Dunk King finale 5. Van Jones 6. Think pieces about Trump voters 7. Sheet cake 8. Avocados 9. Rally permits 10. Fried chicken 11. Tristan Thompson 12. Emojis 13. The name “Nkechi Amare Diallo” 14. Martin Luther King Jr. 15. Bottles of Pepsi 16.…

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  • How ’Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women Who Voted for Trump

    I’m going to keep this short, because it’s Friday evening and I have shit to do.* I generally like Tina Fey. She is one of my favorite people in comedy. And I did laugh at her sheet-cake bit. Even if the premise was all fucked up—more on that in a minute—the actual jokes (aside for…

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  • If You Voted for Trump, I Don’t Give a Shit if You ‘Surely Regret It’ Now

    I’m certain we’ll see more reflections like Julius Krein’s “I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It” in the coming weeks and months. This week alone, we’ve watched Fox News become of a bacchanalia of teary epiphany, and we’ve witnessed a parade of prominent Republicans twist themselves into logical origami denouncing Donald Trump while…

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  • The Most Racist Statue in America Is in … Pittsburgh, and It’s the Most Ridiculous Magical Negro You’ll Ever See 

    There are times, like when watching footage of what happened in Charlottesville, Va., that racism bombards the senses like a virus, leaving your skin sore, your soul hardened and your spirit fatigued; a disillusioning, full-body wizening that disrupts, destroys and (occasionally) ends lives. And then there are times when the racism is so scenery-chewing and…

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  • Can Ben Carson Just Go Away and Watch NCIS Reruns on a Barcalounger Like Every Other 65-Year-Old Black Man?

    I’ve tried very, very, very hard over these past few years, but I just can’t muster much anger toward Ben Carson for the ridiculous and dangerous things he says. Perhaps because he carries himself like a man who goes to Home Depot for the ambience and spends his days saying things like, “I have a…

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  • Does Steve Bannon Have Greyscale? (Asking for a Friend)

    Just as discriminating against someone for their race, their ethnicity, their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, their age, their disabilities, their health, their perceived intelligence and perhaps even their feelings about kombucha is (rightly) frowned upon, it’s also (usually) not cool to disparage someone for their physical appearance, since it remains (mostly) inflexible and out…

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  • The Racist Roots of ‘Cuck’ (the White Supremacist’s Favorite Insult), Explained

    Sure! Oh, so you don’t think “cuck” is a thing? I wish I were. (Or is it “I wish I was”? I’ve never quite known.) But no, cuck is absolutely, definitely, totally a crucial part of the “alt-right” lexicon. So crucial, in fact, that I take back what I just typed. I’m glad I’m not…

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Damon Young is a founder of VSB, and the author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker (Ecco/HarperCollins), which won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor


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