It's a toss up. When I spent time in NYC in the '80s and early '90s as a young man, crime was always on your mind. I thought it was because the city was less familiar to me then, but looking back I realize it was because it was a shithole.

The year 1989 stands out for me, for it was the first year that teenaged CollapsedConversation was allowed to venture into Manhattan alone. And during that year, my friends and I were accosted/attacked on the street in three separate instances, each time in broad daylight.

You may be right about the tone, as the right wing media are super pro Zwarte Piet. But the other media have been doing a lot to give the people that are lobbying against it a voice, and make room for debate and educate people about what blackface means and where it's coming from. It's slowly changing - I hope.

Haha! I was speaking from a stylistic sense and not his upbringing and there were many other bands beside Nirvana. Ha!

I call this one look Last N*ggas in Paris. Why? Because it's the sweet spot when the hood—the 'hood—meets Bertolucci's movie Last Tango in Paris. So that's 'N*ggas in Paris' and Last N*ggas in Paris.

Maybe I am biased at this exact moment because I LITERALLY just finished reading Jean Baudrillard's "America" like 20 minutes ago, but I am pretty bored of the European (and quite often, specifically French) rejection of "politically correct" culture in the guise of flippant racism and/or sexism (or really any kind of…

It's the old BAWB (being alive while black).

The cops found her with at least three times the legal level of melanin in her system.

She injured white people's sense of security.

No. They care about sending a message: next time she needs to fire a warning shot to defend herself, she should try being white while doing it.

When I first moved to Italy you used to see tons of A&F among teens and young/youngish gay men. It was cool to return from ones vacation in States with some serious A&F swag.

Yes, originally they were outdoor outfitters for the upper class - like if you needed a safari wardrobe. I bought my husband a pullover sweater at the New York store before it closed and he wore it for over 20 years. The brand disappeared, then was reincarnated in the 90s. So it will be interesting to see where it…

Does anyone remember when A&F used to be a high end store? I think there was a store near the South Street Seaport in NYC.

Seriously this douchebag gets starred and promoted out of the grays in every post. WTF is wrong with people?

I think the point is that what we perceive as a liberal enclave has a racist past more associated with Southern backwaters, and that in some part it has the luxury of being a liberal enclave in part because of that racist past.

The point, informative. Like how it informed me that they had a law that forbade black people from living in their state. I had no idea, I know I can not be the only one.

I hear Clayton Bigsby is originally from Oregon

She followed me on Instagram!

I'm not a hip hop fan in the slightest, but Mz. 007 knows how to writing a fucking catchy tune! Pass me a drink, I'm important! Love it. hard.