Typical, bragging while spending 15 times more than white people did.

USC has an endowment worth billions, that’s right billions with a b. I just have to shake my head at the fact that Dr. Dre, of all the places to donate 70 million dollars, chose USC. I don’t understand why so many wealthy black folks continue to make white folks richer instead of....well you know. Whiteness is a…

Sometimes...man...sometimes...Black Twitter gets it right. I cackled.

yes

You mean”blackwash” her record, it is already are white washed.

I think the U.S. criminal justice system has done plenty to punish poor people without something like this. I don’t think poor people love their children any less than those with means, so unless you know every circumstance, to simply threaten criminal prosecution is too drastic.

You're not a lone wolf but ghe pack around here is very small.

Her argument falls right into what I said about prosecutors and their inability to see much less correct the flaws in the system they are invested in.

It’s that I don’t believe she has any political ideaology or integrity. I think she’s an opportunist.

Thanks for this thoughtful, nuanced piece. As a Black and proud Bernie supporter (which makes me a lone wolf in The Root comments section) I’m usually down for seeing Black people win at every level.

Dude, you are hitting home runs all over this thread.  

I’m with you here. This isn’t appropriation. Like at all. Nothing Naomi is modeling in those photo’s scream “culture” to me.

I don’t get the mention of appropriation here. Let alone the need for ‘attribution’. Isn’t Naomi Cambell a model? And her job is to model designs by various people, whose goal in life is to try to get other people to then buy/wear their designs?

It’s not the baggage that’s the problem. It’s that I don’t believe she has any political ideaology or integrity. I think she’s an opportunist. The opportunity during her rise was to be Tough on Crime and a Drug Warrior because it was expedient at the time. Now its expedient for her to swing left and talk about Reperat…

I dunno. I think folks in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

And lets be clear about something. The reason she didn’t pursue the death penalty for the guy who killed the cop was purely politics. She campaigned on not pursuing the death penalty to an electorate that was against it. It’s what she won on and her opponents would have destroyed her with it in the next election if…

I’m sick of having nothing but bad choices but to me at least there’s a big difference between someone like Bernie who might be clueless but at least is pointed in the right direction and Harris who was a literal foot soldier for mass incarceration and the police state. Shit like this why people don’t vote at all.

Thorough as always Michael. This is the article I’m going to link anytime anyone brings up Kamala Harris. People could claim that this was the past or she was just doing her job all they want but the fact that she went on the Breakfast Club and joked around about smoking weed while there are people still sitting in…

I think a big difference between AD and Kareem is that AD went to the media with his request as well.  Kareem did it in private and allowed the Bucks to make the best deal possible.  By going public, AD put NO in a position of weakness when bargaining.