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10 Things White People Don't Really Seem To Give A Fuck About
1. Black people Some things really need no explanation but ya know, we explain shit and shit around here. I’m not, however, going to explain this shit because I mean, duh. 2. The rights of anybody but white people, but especially Black people White man with a gun? Exercising his rights. Black man with a…
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How to be Internet "Famous" and Day Job Anonymous at the Same Damn Time
I don’t want to bury the lede, so here’s the punchline: On Friday, I left my day job after 14 years to work for VSB full time; nobody at my day job had any idea about VSB. Full stop. For my entire tenure as a government employee, working that good government job, I flew under…
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Why I’m Willing to Represent the Entire Black Community to the Not Black Community
You know what I don’t mind? Aside from not minding if you stroke me up, (I don’t mind) I do not mind being the voice of Black America. Not on radio or television, I mean in the office and to white people anywhere. If I work at a company and there aren’t a lot of…
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Hey Mona, Stop Trying to Make Hazel-E a Thing. Please?
Dearest Rachet Proliferation Bae, Hey, girl! How you doing? No…no…how YOU doing? Okay! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaas! Yeah, girl. Girl talk like a boss! Now that we got the pleasantries out of the way, can we kick actual factuals for a minute? Please? Mona, you know I love me some ratchets. I watch them a lot. I balance the…
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Why The Hell Do People Bring Dogs To Work?
Are you a dog person? I’m not. I’m also not not a dog person. I like animals. I like dogs. I’ve had cats and dogs. Animals rock. You know what doesn’t rock? Animals running amok through work hallways. But that shit has happened at my place of employment before. Somebody thought it was okay to let…
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12 Thoughts on Jay Z's New Album, "4:44" Because We All Care Right Now
At midnight EST, Jay-Z dropped his latest album 4:44 amidst one of the better promo runs we’ve seen in a while. Of course, to listen to it you had to either sign up for Sprint and why would you do that or have a subscription to Tidal, which is only slightly less unreasonable than signing…
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Angela Valdes Gotta Go. Along With Everybody Else But Tasha and Tommy. Kthxbi.
Do you watch Power? I watch Power. I hate Angela Valdes. She must be stopped. She must die. I didn’t always feel this way about Assistant United States Attorney Angela Valdes. Before I wanted her to die, I was rather okay with her morally bankrupt homewrecker role on the show. See, Ghost, or Jamie (St. Patrick)…
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10 Thoughts About "All Eyez On Me", Both A Day Late and a Dollar Short
I finally saw All Eyez On Me, the Tupac Shakur biopic that’s been years in the making after a bunch of fits and starts. It was pretty universally panned by critics, but I loves me a good bad Black movie so a bad review is like catnip to a thug. Also, I’m a big fan…
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How Information Overload Turns Into Writer's Block
My morning ritual is pretty consistent. I hop up out my bed, turn my swag on, I look myself in the mirror and say “what’s up!?”. Every morning. That is followed by my morning constitutional where I catch up on the news. And there is always news. In fact there is so much news nowadays…
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5 Birthday Gifts for the Toddler Who Has Everything
I have three kids. One is 8 (I have no idea what you call the 8-year-old phase of life) and the other two are toddlers. This means that I have some experience – and expertise – in the art of what toddlers like. Which is important because one of the most frequent questions I’ve received…
