Exactly this. I grew up near the water in NY and my parents are immigrants so they assumed that all kids learned how to swim. The other black families in the area always seemed really weird about it until I got older and learned the history.

But people need to help break some of these historical cycles. If you want…

We can’t wait for every single white person to act right before we do what we have to do. And clearly you’re ignoring the statistics.

What happens when your kids are 10, 11, or 12 and start hanging out where you can’t keep tabs on them 100% of the time?

What if there’s some sort of unforeseen accident where they end…

“What else in life do you learn like this?”

I’ll quickly defer to your expertise when you say it’s a bad method, but we learn a lot of things this way.

You can see them in the wild in PG

Did you suffer a head injury? Kids doing stupid kid shit are never, ever begging to be assualted.

standing there with your hands in the air definitely isn’t asking to be bodyslammed, either.

You should be ashamed of yourself. 

Maturity is ignoring that childish bullshit. Entertainers in other media deal with that too and handle it like mature professionals. Hopefully he grows up and does the same.

I love everything about this piece. It’s airtight, succinct, and approaches the subject matter head on. Bravo.

I’m not sure why people think that these men, or anyone, should be immune from criticism, but it’s literally throwing their victims, male and female, under the bus.

It’s getting old. Or maybe I’m getting old.…

Exactly this. It’s a pernicious catch-22. No matter how good or bad a kid’s school is, it begins and ends at home. Parents that don’t have the knowledge or education to guide their own children out of the trap need to seek help and defer to the people trying to help them.

Michael Jackson dubbed himself the king. And he was right.

Ok....but, who?

Aside from calling Afros “outlandish” this is a reasonable set of requests, even if it’s couched in old guy language. People aren’t supposed to stand out visually in these kinds of performances.

It’s becoming more and more clear to me that hip-hop fandom is going to have to reckon with it’s acceptance of and apathy towards violence eventually.

this is the answer

Me too! Axian and chillhop are my shizz.

That used to be my position and it used to be sufficient. However the obsession with “realness” and the arms race that it has produced over the past 15-25 years (depending on who’s counting) makes that rationale flimsier and flimsier every day.

Could you, with a straight face, say that the criminality among hip-hop…

Robin Williams was funny.

Y’all missed The most savage response of all

The eagerness to make excuses for people that you don’t know from a hole in the wall never becomes less eerie.

Wu for life!

Funny I used to love Viv’s acting, and now I think she’s overrated.