Politics
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Sorry, Oprah, You Might Be Too Late
Last week, Oprah Winfrey seemingly contemplated a run for the White House in 2020. When asked if she’d considered entering that race, she responded that the 2016 presidential election had dismissed her previous concerns that she might not be qualified enough for the job. In other words: If Donald Trump can do it, so can…
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This Video of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis ‘Turnt Up’ Is Everything
Remember John Lewis? Remember how our pear-shaped, pumpkin-colored president got butt-hurt when the civil rights hero said he didn’t see Donald Trump as a “legitimate president”? Remember how Receding-Hairline Hitler jumped on Twitter and tweeted: This weekend, while Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida meeting with his “alt-right” all-star team that included Jeff…
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Trump’s Game of Russian Roulette Could End in 1 of These 3 Ways
On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump woke up, looked at a few right-wing websites, realized that he was going down and started tweeting blame at former President Barack Obama. Trump, like most abusive men, can’t get over the fact that his partner’s ex, and America’s previous boyfriend, Barack Obama was pretty good. Moreover, it’s a…
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Jeff Sessions Is the New Jim Crow
Perhaps the worst thing about America’s mistreatment of black people in this country has nothing to do with the violence inflicted against us or the centuries of historic subjugation we’ve endured. It is the constant disregard for our voices that frustrates us most. Black America is the neighbor in the horror movie who warns the…
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Why Do Folks Think Ivanka Trump Is Anything but a Filtered Version of Her Dad?
Unlike select pundits who marvel when a maniac can communicate his planned monstrosities in milder tones, I found nothing impressive about Tangerine Mussolini’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week. Perhaps when you’re a boorish hatemonger who speaks as if his tongue had a stroke while trying to cross over from a fourth-grade…
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3 Reasons Trump’ll Be President for 8 Years Unless White Liberals Grow a Spine (or Maxine Waters Takes Over)
As a black femme living under the United States’ first Orange administration, every piece of “breaking news” makes me feel like I’m living in Groundhog Day. You know, that movie with Bill Murray? Yeah, that one. Not a day goes by when you wake up in the morning and don’t hear that the Orange has…
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When It Comes to White Supremacists, Trump, You Are the Father
I love former President Barack Obama. I started loving him shortly after he walked offstage after making his now-historic 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. During his time as president, not only was Obama an example of class and excellence in office, but for many black men, he was also a role model for how to…
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Remember: No Matter How Awful Parmesan Putin Is, George W. Bush Still Ain’t Shit
One may as well wear a white hood, while the other governed as if he were donning a dunce cap, but make no mistake: Hot garbage may have a stronger stench than its colder counterpart, but trash is trash. So when it comes to the growing sentiment that maybe, just maybe, former President George W.…
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Will Trump’s Executive Order Be a Boon or a Bust for HBCUs?
On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump signed the Presidential Executive Order on the White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, black college leaders and advocates were hoping for two things: more funding for HBCUs and a higher profile for the initiative in the White House. They received half…