Not everything needs to have a racial element.

Welcome to the typical bullshit that infests this website. White man did it, can’t be good. White man did it, appropriation. Ad nauseum.

Kara is just an asshole (and might decide to single out innocuous comments to post on her twitter for ridicule instead of engaging), and sometimes when she is lazy she furthers racism in her critique. I am fucking tired of being marked down as some genetic wizard of hip hop and jazz.

Exactly, lets start going around telling people they can’t do something because of their race! Progress!

Since when are white people not allowed to make jazz music? I guess I’ll go back in time and tell Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller to knock it off.

Yes, I the tenor of this article is terrible but fits with a certain strain of thought that pervades much of the Gawker universe. It is very counterproductive. I could see if the problem for the author was that the music wasn’t good. I don’t know. I didn’t see La La Land (and never intended to either) but it seems…

I was wondering if I was the only one that thought this was a really shit comment to make.

I don’t understand this logic. I loved Bad Brains back in the day. Zero fucks did I give for them being a black punk band.

I would never try to state that “white people” were responsible for Jazz, that would be ludicrous.…

Somebody should go back in time and tell all the white people who ever made jazz — including the ones who did it before anyone even started calling it jazz — that they should stop.

I hear ya Kara....that Stan Getz.....Chet Baker.....Django Reinhardt....Bix Biederbecke and Dave Brubeck were fucking hacks. The world is much better served by listening to Nicki Minaj or Mariah and Salt and Pepa.

He presented the statue to three white men who won an award for making jazz music.

You guys are really ratcheting up the racism for the Oscars. Is it just for clicks, or do you really believe the skin color of these men affects their ability to write music?

Having spent 7 years working in a steakhouse, I can attest that there are exactly two kinds of adults who eat steak like this:

THANK YOU. Ida B Wells taught us, and we walked straight. FOHWTBS about ‘let-downs’ - we were stans for HRC to the very end. Y’all don’t get to be all revisionist on us, we’d nothing to do with the carnage on the 9th.

“If there was one minuscule shard of silver lining to take from Trump’s presidency, it was that perhaps this was the particular apocalypse the Democrats needed to reinvigorate its stultified base, one so underwhelmed by Hillary Clinton it largely couldn’t be bothered to vote.”

THANK you. Jesus Christ there are some dramatic people up in here. Everything I’ve read indicates they are extremely similar. Just because Bernie endorsed Ellison doesn’t make Perez Satan incarnate. I quite like Sanders, but he does inspire some rabid followers...

Are you this stupid and selfish naturally?

Yeah, I literally don’t give a fuck what Sanders thinks the Democrats should do since he isn’t a damn Democrat. He can get back to being wishy-washy on gun regulations to the detriment of his constituents, lmao.

Who’s “we” there Bernie? You got a mouse in your pocket. Or did you forget you aren’t a Democrat again and that most of the party doesn’t jump at your command.

I literally had to read your comment several times to try to figure out that you WEREN’T just saying “god forbid we respect the DNC chair.” Because I mean...if you’ll literally leave the party because the guy you liked (which, let’s be honest, a lot of people were fired up about Bc a dude who doesn’t even call himself…

I for one am pleased as punch by this decision. Perez has a great record. His work on police accountability, voter rights, and unions has been steadfast for decades. Just because he wasn’t Sander’s first pick doesn’t mean he’s evil (or as the kids like to incorrectly say today “neoliberal”).