I’ve watched so many of my friends, family, and neighbors devolve into this kind of shit-slinging idiocy. After talking to them repeatedly about how utterly inconceivable such ideas really are, I’ve concluded that White America is likely going to be the longest running experiment in willful ignorance in human history.…

Damon, your first comparison was so goddamn brilliant and funny that I terrified my husband and cat when I burst into uproarious laughter. You made my day. Damn, I love the Root.

THAT was a fantastic response, Nunna Yorz (no sarcasm), and I honestly appreciate the check you just gave me. First, I’ve never seen nor heard those definitions, but don’t doubt them either. I’m going to have to do an etymological dive into that one to learn more about its roots. Second, my first reaction to your last…

Nunna Yorz, I typically agree with your posts, but I’m disappointed in your easy use of homophobic rhetoric with the “butt hurt white man” comment. Also, I think you presumed way too much about darkhearts. For a White person to express shame due to the virulent racism that infects our tribe doesn’t mean we are just…

My first response when reading this was, “Is this the mf from Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man?” Sadly, this ain’t fiction.

I will never again trust my own. I have never been more disgusted by White America. My great-grandmother was a White ally who fed and assisted Black ministers traveling around NC in the Jim Crow days. To see that some of her descendants voted against the ideals she taught us is so incredibly demoralizing. I,…

I became a minimalist a few years ago as I delved into deeper spiritual practices. It was strange to realize it was a bit of a revolutionary social act when everyone I knew thought I’d lost my mind because STUFF!  

Google “phimosis” and you’ll find out just how useless (and annoying) he is.

“Beard” is a term used in the queer community to illustrate a person who has a straight relationship to hide his/her queerness from the public. Jared being the closeted queer, Ivanka being his beard. However, as a queer man, I don’t want to claim Jared...just like I don’t want to claim Kevin fucking Spacey.  Alas, we…

I remember the controversy with NWA’s “Fuck Tha Police,” and how so many people (obviously White) in my orbit were beside themselves that such a song could become popular. Then, my dad said to me when I asked him about it, “Never trust the police. It takes an incredibly arrogant jerk to believe they should have…

Further proof the ICE and the FOP are just like Nigeria’s SARS. Will Biden condemn these groups, too? Nope, because, somehow, America is “different.” After revisiting Baldwin's "Going to Meet the Man," it depresses me to no end knowing that absolutely nothing has changed.

This is so sick...because it's truthiness is probably around 97-99%.

Your brilliance is radiant in this piece, Michael.  Thanks again for the food for thought.

I wish I could take your class.  James Baldwin is, in my mind, the greatest intellectual in American history and the PERFECT anchor for discussing the American Lie (ahem, "dream").

And you are the phimosis of trolls (now go find a dictionary).

This shook me. I'm going to meditate on your last sentence tonight...heartbreaking and breathtaking.

“Imagine having to imagine dying every day.”

Virtual hug, Damon. Making such a decision is so, so hard. The wrong people always die.

This French Open, like the USO earlier this month, has been a rather pointless exercise (even though I watched and actively cheered for Thiem and Osaka, once The Queen bowed out). This weird, disjointed season should have been left for the new generation and the lost generation to fight out. The old guard should have…

#1 made me laugh out loud, even thought it isn’t even the best line...guess it’s picturing LaVar hyping shit just.like.Trump.