Not cool, though.  Racial epithets are racial epithets.

Someone call the Academy Awards.

Agree 100%. I’ve picked it up every few years and it aways feels fresh, you always find something new. Ellison was a great puzzler, too. He hid tons of little clues throughout the novel. If you want to walk through one of the most elusive ones, here’s a short video on YT -

Still one of my favorites. A book so resonant it took Ellison most of the rest of his life to bring himself to finish another novel (he wrote several short stories no novels). I'm not even he considered the posthumously published Juneteenth a complete work.

Any grown man wearing that necklace is guilty.  

Well, it didn’t take long for his apologists to slither out into the light.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/opinion/jussie-smollett-attack.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock#commentsContainer

Must be fun living life as such an angry little simpleton. Finding a way to still blame whitey for this whole fiasco, not even realizing the guy just possibly and singehandedly (ok, a couple Nigerian hands helped) shot down Kamala Harris and Corey Bookers whole campaign way earlier than it would have been.

More “ fake noose.”

Some internet stranger has a long winded grandiose way to say he’s not responsible for his actions? How very typical of your kind :)

C’mon now. Please. Use little bit of common sense and then filter that through your street smarts.

He went to a singing engagement a couple of days later. He didn’t break a rib.

Well that full timeline is from the NYT, so there is that.

Trump has better eyebrows. Let’s give him his due on this one. Fair?