Very Smart Brothas
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White People Won’t Let Our Edges Be Great
You know that Viola Davis GIF where Annalise Keating serves an epic black girl eye roll, grabs her purse and goes the hell home because as she was leaving her house she wished a nigga would, and they clearly did? Well, those were my exact sentiments last week to the folks over at Victoria’s Secret…
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I've Pretty Much Stopped Drinking. Asterisk.
In 2009, I became a parent to a beautiful daughter. She is the light of my life. From 2010 to 2015, I lived two very separate lives: Daddy PJ and Partyin’ PJ. When I’m with my daughter, I’m on my Ps and Qs; I don’t even drink when she’s with me unless her mother is…
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Neither Kevin Durant Nor Lebron "Ruined" The NBA; Irrational Stans Of Michael Jordan Did
Let’s start at ruin. Last night, the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA Finals; culminating a near-perfect playoff run and historic regular season where they established themselves as the best offense in NBA history. And there seems to be nothing to suggest they won’t do the same thing next year.…
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White Men are Winning at Literally Everything, So Why are they Still so Angry?
Who hurt you, boo? You should smile more. It may feel like the whole world is against you, but do all of you have to be so bitter? Look at all of your athletes and celebrities with astronomical success. You have special programs to get you into colleges and businesses based almost entirely on your…
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"Return of The Mack" Is The Best Song Ever That Nobody Acknowledges Is The Best Song Ever
There’s no need to parse words here: “Return of the Mack” is easily one of the best songs ever created in the history of the planet. Sure, it’s no “Moonlight Sonata”, but “Moonlight Sonata” is no “As”, feel me? But far and wide, nobody wants to put the proper ‘speck on “Return…” Well that changes…
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The Best Part Of The Comey Hearing Is Watching These White Men Throw Bags Of Piss At Each Other
Look, I don’t know what’s going to be the result of all of this. Does the Darth Cheeto get impeached or, at the very least, decheetoed? I don’t know! Does Jeff The Baby-Faced Bigot Sessions resign? Who knows! Do the Cavs sign James Comey tonight to give them some last-minute rim protection? I have no…
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Former FBI Director Comey Senate Hearing Open Thread
We know you’re watching. Talk about it.
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Five Perfectly Practical Reasons Why Y'all Need To Stop Inviting Every Random-Ass White Person To The Cookout
Invariably, as the controversy over Bill Maher’s house nigga continues to persist, a peripheral conversation about Maher’s mythical cookout-invitee status has occurred. According to some of y’all—and by “some of y’all” I really mean “some of y’all”—Maher has done enough in his career to warrant enough of a benefit of the doubt to still score…
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Five Quick Thoughts On Bill Maher Going Peak Bill Maher (And A Quick Aside On White People And Nigga/Nigger)
This is haircut and hoop day for me, so this is going to be quick. 1. I was actually watching the show when it happened. I wasn’t watchingwatching — which’ll be clearer in #2 — but the TV was on, and it was on Real Time with Bill Maher. 2. I didn’t actually hear him…