Yesterday, a good friend posted the following meme on Facebook with the words, “Fight me on this. I dare you.“. He’s a good friend, whom I care about, so I was tempted to just move along. We sit on opposite sides of the political spectrum, he and I, but, we share a lot of commonalities: A love of heavy metal, a passion for beer in damn near all it’s forms,…
Tom Arnold, the actor from “True Lies” and “Roseanne”, is on a mission to find what he is calling the “Trump Tapes”, so much so that he has created a tv show about his search. The idea is that someone somewhere has outtakes from “The Apprentice”, in which Trump can be heard saying the word “nigger”. I can’t speak to what Arnold’s motivation is, be it truth or publicity, but,…
I held off really diving back into this blogging thing. I knew it would eat up time, probably cause me to spew more than a little anger, and lead to idiots arguing with me who hadn’t taken the time to actually research the facts. Instead, they would simply parrot whatever Faux News or Orangina 45 said most recently. Then “Lester” came along, bless his racist little heart, and gave…
Wiktionary.com defines “blacksplain” as a slang term meaning, “Of a black person in a group with non-black people: to explain some concept which is very common in black culture but unknown to non-black members of the group.” It is a blend of the words “black” and “explain”. For people of color, we find ourselves blacksplaining all the time if we travel mainly in white circles in society. At work, with…
I had fully intended to come back into this blogging thing with more essay like material. I even have a piece in the works. But then, Faux News host Laura Ingraham opened her mouth, blew her racist little dog whistle and made the decision for me. LeBron James should “Shut up and dribble”, she says. She says this after taking a jab at his “grammar” and “barely intelligible” diction. Which…
Former occasional Faux News talking head and former CNN political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes was on NPR’s “Morning Edition” today, and in her interview she voiced her concerns about the Trump Administration’s handling of the Rob Porter Scandal, and specifically Drumpf’s dropping of the ball on speaking out against abuse. What boggles the mind is that this is the same woman who steadfastly defended the Pussy Grabber In Chief when…
2018. Its here. And I havent written anything on this blog in months. There are many reasons for this…many of them center around the current state of affairs in this country. Frankly, being brown in the United States is fucking tiring at the moment. Darth Cheeton has been POTUS for a year now, and between hearing and seeing that blithering idiot spout racist crap left and right with his 4th…
Recent events in the world have been stunning for people of color in America. Nothing in my mind has been more striking than the reaction to the events in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend. A wanna-be Nazi drove his car into a crowd of people, killing one and wounding over a dozen more. James Alex Fields Jr. who wasn’t from Charlottesville or even from Virginia for that matter, was in…
Sometimes, when I see inane shit on the news, or in my news feed on social media, I simply jot it down and promise myself a deeper dive later. Such was the case with this bullshit. Seriously, “black privilege” is a thing that actual grown folks who have, one would assume, at least SOME education, actually talk about…it’s NOT just a piece by Charlamagne Tha God. Now, unlike discussions of…
I like Mitch Albom, I really do. I enjoy his writing, and I love to hear his commentary on ESPN when he is a guest. Granted, we may not always agree, but, in the end, I can at least see where he’s coming from…and also why he might feel his opinion is right. I have never listened to an opinion of his and thought he was dead wrong. And then…