melissa harris-perry
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Why "I Hope He Whooped The Shit Out Of George Zimmerman" Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Heard This Week
1. Because although Melissa Harris-Perry said “hope,” its said in the same spirit of Cedric The Entertainer’s “wish.” Remember, she gave this speech at Cornell University. If she gave that speech at Cornell’s House of Naturals in East St. Louis instead, I’m 99.9% certain “I hope he whooped the shit out of George Zimmerman” would have…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 17. Pretending To Be "Ratchet"
No one quite knows exactly where ratchet stems from. Some say it’s an evolved, colloquial form of “wretched.” Others trace the etymology to Lil Boosie’s “Do Tha Ratchet”, which would help to explain why the justified incarceration of a shitty rapper upset so much of the south. What is known, though, is that ratchet has come to…