race & politics
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Why The Chris Brown, Drake, And Karaoke Love Triangle Is The Most Lightskinneded Thing We've Ever Seen This Week
1. Because Drake — who, all things considered, is having perhaps the best year in lightskinneded history — is involved. 2. Because for all of the blatantly violent, sexist, and misogynistic music that has flooded our airwaves in the past half-decade, “Marvin’s Room” is easily the most lecherous. And, admittedly, the most genius. It’s a…
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Ferguson Isn't About Black And White. It's About Green.
Robert McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County, was first elected to the post in 1991, and has held the post ever since. He often runs unopposed. He’s been re-elected six times. One of those times came after a 2001 grand jury where he allowed four officers to go free after shooting two unarmed…
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Dear America, Where's My Hug?
“…so how you feel? Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don’t know myself I be too numb, to feel something sometimes…” ~ Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob, “Thought Process” Soul Food (1995) As the news of Eric Garners murderer – and I use that term with all of the weight it carries considering that the medical examiner…
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Eric Garner Choked To Death By Cop. In Broad Daylight. On Camera. Cop Gets Off. Fuck Everybody.
I don’t even know what to say now. Really, I don’t. Maybe I will later today or tomorrow. But now, I try to write and it feels like Groundhog Day. I could literally cut and paste everything I said the last two weeks about Michael Brown and just substitute Garner’s name for Brown’s, Staten Island for…
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F*ck The St. Louis Police Officers Association And Everything They Believe In
If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen or at least heard about the pre-game display that a few of the St. Louis Rams football players put on when walking out of the tunnel on Sunday before they, the Rams of St. Louis put an otherworldly ass whippin’ on the Raiders of Oakland. Five players – Stedman…
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An Argument For Not Blocking Your Ridiculously Stupid And/Or Racist Facebook Friends
The last two weeks of November produced a vortex of news stories (Ferguson, Cosby, Ray Rice) everyone seems to have an opinion on. And, when everyone seems to have an opinion on something, that “everyone” includes “stupid and/or insensitive and/or racist motherfuckers.” Nowhere was this more evident than it was on Facebook, as these weeks…
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Darren Wilson Is A Dick. Literally
Darren Wilson is a dick. Not in the figurative sense (although he is that too). No, I came to that conclusion after seeing the first clear images of him — the photos of the injuries he sustained while involved in the life-threatening altercation with the 8’4, 720 pound Michael Brown. Darren Wilson is dick, literally.…
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Ferguson Is Burning
I spent a couple hours this evening at a friend’s going away party. He recently accepted a job overseas, and 50 or so people gathered at SAVOY — a Black-owned restaurant in Pittsburgh’s Strip District — to see him off. The crowd was predominately male; (mostly) Black men ranging from the early 20s to the…
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12 Year Old Killed By Police; Darren Wilson Preps For TV Interview
It would be very difficult to find a juxtaposition that articulates how many Americans (Black and non-Black) feel about our country’s concept of justice better than two stories I read this morning. From Tamir Rice Shooting by Cleveland Police Under Investigation: The police shooting death of a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun in Cleveland…