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  • Are These Timberlands?

    Are These Timberlands?

    Yes, technically. But they’re not Timbs. There’s a difference? Yes. Care to expound? No.

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  • 25 Questions for the People Who Wear Masks While Driving Their Cars

    1. Why are you doing this? 2. I don’t get it? 3. I mean I get how COVID has invaded our brains and made us question whether the things we’re doing are healthy and safe? 4. Just yesterday I rubbed hand sanitizer on a Snickers wrapper before opening it? 5. Which I’m certain isn’t safe?…

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  • A List of Reasons Why It's Necessary for Black People to Have Conversations and Photo Ops With White Racists

    Goodbye.

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  • 30 Questions About Dr. Umar Johnson's Claim That Black Americans Spend $19 Million a Year on Grits

    In an Instagram post on Labor Day, Dr. Umar Johnson lamented that he would be able to build multiple schools for Black boys if we gave our annual grit money to him instead. I have questions. 1. Where did he find that number? 2. Is there a secret registry of grain-specific stats that only hotep…

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  • A List of Black People I'm (Mostly) Certain Are Not White Women From Kansas

    1. Tyronn Lue 2. My aunt Jean 3. The nigga who played “Poot” from The Wire 4. The cute widdle Black baby model on the box of Pampers I bought yesterday 5. Boston University professor Saida Grundy 6. Panama Jackson 7. “Shatasha” from Bone Thugs n’ Harmony 8. Summer Lee 9. That young boy at…

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  • Colonoscopies Are Easy! Colonoscopy Prep Is Hell on Earth!

    The tragic death of Chadwick Boseman has inspired increased conversation about the importance of colonoscopies to catch colon cancer and other colorectal disorders. The CDC recommends that you wait until you’re 50 to start screening. But, since Black people are 20 percent more likely to be diagnosed with colon cancer and 40 percent more likely…

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  • 35 Things I Thought Were Signs of Extreme Wealth When I Was Younger

    1. A garage 2. A basketball hoop on said garage 3. A fiberglass basketball hoop (if you had this, I assumed you were Warren Buffet) 4. A pantry 5. A finished basement 6. A family with two cars 7. A salary of over $60,000 a year 8. Annual family vacations 9. Having separate hoop shoes…

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  • It's Fine to Just Cry, Too

    I keep coming back to resilience. And how I hate how we consider it to be an essential and inherent and invaluable characteristic of Blackness. I hate it because it’s dehumanizing. Being born Black don’t make us any more resilient than anyone else. We ain’t stronger. We ain’t tougher. We’ve just been given more shit to…

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  • VAN JONES IS AARON BURR!

    It finally dawned on me yesterday, after reading that Van Jones said Jared Kushner has “the dopest job in the world.” Which is such a Van Jones-ass thing to do and say—and not just because he’s praising the effete criminal dickwad who’s what would happen if every Jared ever and every 28-year-old MBA ever were…

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  • So Maybe It's Time to Defund Sports, Too

    If you ever find yourself walking around downtown Pittsburgh on a Friday afternoon in the early fall—when the weather is still nice enough to be jacket-less—you’d encounter many of the amenities that consistently place it on America’s Most Livable Cities lists. The world-renowned Cultural District. Restaurants helmed by Beard-nominated chefs. Architectural and topographical marvels unseen…

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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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