race & politics
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…And In More Racism's Still Alive News: A Noose at the Blacksonian
You may have heard by now that a noose was found INSIDE the National Museum of African American History and Culture, more affectionately know by Black people locally (in DC) as the Blacksonian. Somebody actually placed a noose, one of the most vile and explicit symbols of America’s remarkably racist history, inside of a museum dedicated…
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Lebron James May Or May Not Be A Better Basketball Player Than Michael Jordan, But He's A Better Man
It’s apropos that Lebron James, the greatest basketball player of the 21st century, has made (and will continue to make) the debate about whether he or Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever a valid and relevant one with his most underrated characteristics: his stamina and consistency. There has not been an NBA season since 2003 where…
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Tiger Woods's Decade-Long Nigga Wake-Up Call
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” is one of the most popular, pithy, and eternally relevant quotes ever. It’s also false. Well maybe not false, but incomplete and in need of an amendment for it to be truly true. “In this world nothing…
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Jared Kushner Is A Thug
Thug has become such a ubiquitous dog whistle for a certain type of uncomfortable Blackness — and by “certain type of uncomfortable Blackness” I mean “all Blackness” — that the whistle is no longer necessary. Nothing is coded, nothing concealed, nothing cloaked. Those who use it in this context can’t even feign to deny anymore that…
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Am I A Blerd? Are You A Blerd? What Makes One A Blerd?
Back in the days when I was young – I’m not a kid anymore – I think I lived pretty squarely in nerd territory. And because I’m Black, we’ll refer to it as blerd, though I will mostly use the term nerd. Urkel was my muse. We’re talking early 90s and well into high school.…
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America Owes Bresha Meadows A Debt That Will Never Be Paid
In just a few months, Bresha Meadows will finally be out of prison. However, it won’t be due to her case being dismissed, or being granted bail. Moreover, she will not be directly returning home. Instead, due to accepting a plea deal, a 15-year old Bresha will have her time served commuted and sent to…
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The Christian Way To Respond To The Murder Of Terence Crutcher Isn't Forgiveness. It's Fury.
Back in September, Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was walking to his car with his hands up when he was shot by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby. This incident was captured on video by both a police dash cam and an aerial video from a police helicopter wherein Shelby’s husband, a fellow officer who…
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The More Racist I Get, The More White People Love Me, And I Don't Know How I Feel About This!
While The Wife Person and I were sitting on our front stoop yesterday evening, a middle-aged White man on a scooter rode past, noticed me on the steps, stopped in the street, and screamed “Governor! It’s called a governor!” I replied. “Oh, ok. Thanks!” And then he rode away on his scooter. Clearly perplexed by…
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I'm Sorry To Disappoint Everyone, But Donald Trump Ain't Getting Impeached Or Going To Prison
The only redeeming stretch in Batman v Superman — a movie so aggressively shitty that The Wife Person and I watch it each time its on just to find new shit to hate about it — comes directly after the single worst scene in the movie. Batman is about to kill the shit out of…
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A Long-Time White Reader of VSB Needs Some Help. Let's Help Him.
Here at VSB HQ, we get a lot of emails per day. Like a lot a lot. I italicized that first “a lot” to let you know two things: 1) like,it’s really a lot, and 2) to let you know it’s real. Like, real real. Using the same word twice – and italicizing to boot…