Very Smart Brothas
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Why Erykah Badu Won't Just Stop Tweeting About Short Skirts, Explained
Who is Erykah Badu? Erykah Badu is an iconic neo soul artist who single-handedly forced tens of thousands of Black men to delete men named “Tyrone” from their address books, which subsequently ruined the name Tyrone for tens of thousands of Black men. RIP the name Tyrone. Also, on a more superficial level, she’s become…
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I Really Wish Hillary Clinton Would Stop Trying To Be Down. It's Embarrassing.
Even though it’s political season and there are lots of commercials that indicate that every vote counts—vote or die and shit, Wu Tang is here forever and all—forcing politicians to do everything to court the votes of communities not like theirs, I kind of wish Hillary Clinton would stop trying to win the Black vote…
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Mainstream Digital Media Sites Are Apparently Struggling Right Now. VSB, However, Is Not.
There’s a couple ways to look at the recent spate of news on the difficulties multi-million dollar digital media companies — Buzzfeed, Mashable, Salon, and Gawker Media to name a few — are currently having. The most popular way, it seems, is to conclude that we’re reaching a bust period; that Facebook’s (and Google’s) ubiquity is so pervasive…
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Why I Stopped Caring About Baseball
Growing up, I was fortunate enough to play several organized sports at varying levels from early youth through high school. I played soccer and basketball, ran both track and cross-country, gave football a short stint. In college I took badminton as one of my physical education requirements, and apparently my particular class was so good,…
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Five Great Alternatives Black America Should Seriously Consider For President
As Barack Obama’s second presidential term winds to a close, Black Americans are contemplating the sad prospect of holding their noses when they cast their votes for the next Commander-in-Chief. Instead of choosing the lesser of the remaining evils, here are five choices you should consider for the next Black President of the United States:…
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How To Eat Chicken Wings Down To The Bone Like A Lady. A Classy Lady.
If you are like me, you’re a woman who loves chicken. And I don’t mean occasionally liking it fried or coated in BBQ sauce, but loving it so much that you wouldn’t dare disrespect it by not eating it in it’s entirety, with just the sound of the bone clinking against the plate as you…
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How Hotep Thinking Like Erykah Badu's Robs Black Children Of Their Childhoods
My childhood before the age of 10 had some big milestones. I moved to the US and learned English. I adopted Harlem as my hometown. I got my first self-purchased cassette—Sisqo’s underrated but absolutely flames Unleash the Dragon. I had also seen and touched and touched an adult man’s penis, on multiple occasions, by the…
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101 Actual Black Women More Deserving Of Book Deals Than Rachel Dolezal
Yesterday, various news outlets confirmed what post-racial turducken Rachel Dolezal alluded to in her recent interview on the Today show. She did indeed receive a deal to pen a book about race. From The Guardian Rachel Dolezal, the civil-rights activist who was accused of misrepresenting herself as black last year, has been signed to write…
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Group Dinners At Restaurants Are Never Fun, And We Need To Stop Having Them
Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effects—increased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peevishness about being awake after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating it like Play-Doh. Others are just…