race & politics
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There's A Rapper Named "Slim Jesus" And He's A White Chief Keef And I Have SO MANY QUESTIONS
1. I’ve had a lot of fun recently writing those “leaked” emails. One because it allows me to be a gotdamn fool. And I appreciate and revel in opportunities to be a gotdamn fool. But also because there’s always a few people not quite sure if they’re real or not. Which boggles my mind because they’re…
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When Will They Stop Making These Boring-Ass Black People Who Obviously Hate Black People?
There is literally nothing — not The Strain, not Dwight Howard playing basketball — more boring, more tedious, and more cliche than the Black person who spends much of their internet time talking shit about “Black people” collectively in a way that lets you know they either don’t actually know very many actual Black people or just…
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Police Pull White Chick Over. She Gets Out and Dances To Future (and Drake). Lives.
In what can only be described as the PUREST form of white privilege available to date, a woman in Los Angeles stole a Ford Focus, led cops on a police chase, and when she rolled over a spike and blew out a tire, bringing an end to said chase… …she turnt up. To Future and…
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An Interview With The Only Person Left In America Who Actually Admits To Being Racist
After reading some of the racially-tinged responses to both the Michael Vick story and #laughingwhileBlack, I became dismayed. Sad, even. Not because of the racism. Racism by itself doesn’t sadden me. I’ve grown so used to it that, on Thursdays, I congeal it into a gel and use it as deodorant. (And it’s surprisingly effective.)…
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Open Forum: The Live, On-Air Killings of WDBJ Employees by Alleged Shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan
If you’re awake, you’ve heard about the live, on-air shooting (and killing) of reporter, Allison Parker, and cameraman, Adam Ward, while conducting an interview at 645am. The reporter and photographer are dead and the interviewee is (or was) in surgery. You’ve also heard, by now, that the shooter is a former, disgruntled employee named Vester Lee Flanagan, who worked…
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Black People Don't Hate Dogs. We Just Hate When Their Lives Are Valued More Than Ours
My Pittsburgh Steelers are apparently courting Michael Vick to become their new back up QB. There are several reasons to be for (i.e.: the Steelers haven’t had a back up QB with an actual pulse since Charlie Batch) or against (i.e.: Michael Vick is the same age as “Rapper’s Delight”) this move. (For the record, I’m for…
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Getting Kicked Off A Wine Tour For Laughing While Black Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Every once in a while, you’ll see a story that’s so uniquely and unambiguously Black — with so many different aspects of Blackness involved in it — that it’s almost like someone had a Blackness Bingo card and was trying to fill every slot. The story of the 11 Black women thrown off of a…
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The One Superpower All Black People Possess? Detecting Blackness
Now that the Shaun King “controversy” has apparently been settled, and the right-wing trolls have returned to their cages and their shifts at Dick’s Sporting Goods, I’m still legitimately fascinated with — but not surprised by — the fact that so many people doubted King’s ethnicity. And I’m not talking about the cretins scouring for any reason to…