Yes there is a lot of toxicity in the entertainment we consume. Not we as black people (I doubt we do more than anybody else). I meant we as in Americans. For every Love and Hip Hop there’s a Housewives of Wherever, or a Honey Boo Boo, or a Kardashian, or whatever.

Yup. All he needed to add was “like Kanye” to that “negative reinforcement toward BLACK ‘nonconformists”, bit and my eyes would have never come back from the roll they were already on.

Most of those websites are garbage, but Stanfield is tiresome, too. Most of those sites are trash simply because they are trash, not really because they don’t conform to “black non-conformists.” And those sites have white garbage counterparts; this is not unique to us. This doesn’t really have anything to do with race.

I am delighted that not only was he heckled, he was heckled by conservatives. It’s harder to spin that one.

For all of you height disabled people, not being able to reach it doesn’t make it not a shelf.

The dissent is wrong, while the top of the refrigerator is a shelf it is not an appropriate place to put keys.

Here’s another laugh for you:

In other words: FTP.

I only got this far, but I’m not saving this comment for the end because it’s almost time for work.

I too work in finance and when I tell people this they assume we are all crooks. I asked someone that said this to me “Do you feel the police are crooks?” The response was no, I responded saying there are stricter controls and harsher disciplinary standards in my profession than there are in law enforcement. If I…

Do you think they did a Stooge sound effect when it happened?

New York Police Department officials are upset over the passage of a ballot measure that gives a civilian oversight watchdog more authority to investigate police officers who lie during investigations into police brutality, corruption and misconduct.

I had to make sure to hold back to avoid putting a hole in the ballot when marking yes.

their tears taste better than the first sip of coffee in the morning.

Damon,

Because the mainstream takes Black people extreme capitalism and turn it into something racial/horrible/pitiful. This bullshit with the bullshit Popeye’s Chicken Bullshit Sandwich is no less ridiculous as mostly white people acting a motherfucking fool on Black Friday, IMO but the mainstream reaction to it is not the…

Some ugly can only be fixed with a dem hands.

I’ll never forgive America for telling me that this man who always looks and dresses like he was born “recently-divorced” is somehow well-dressed

You should’ve been disappointed by the Nazi part Damon mentioned above.