Very provocative piece DB, thank you! I “Buy Black” and “Support Black Businesses” (where/when I can) and I always will. But I agree that there is a class element at the heart of the issue. In order to “buy black” - and deal with the often extra effort that involves - you need to have money to to do so and often money…

Isn’t Obama speaking more towards pop culture imagery here than specifics? Unlike, say, Bill Cosby, I assume Obama is savvy enough to know there aren’t roving bands of twerking women looking for rich rappers to dance around.

Whilst growing up in deepest south Jackson Mississippi there was a chain of grocery stores named “Jitney Jungle”

Though she is neither smart nor a brotha, her ability to manipulate the media, as she did when she went on 60 Minutes and said that she was as much a victim as Terrence Crutcher, shows that she would turn the site into a black Breitbart.

“Bad haircuts/hairdos isn’t the same thing as bad hair, because bad hair doesn’t really exist”

Don’t play ball with people that have never owned a cassette tape.

A guy I work with, who is the same age as me (45), plays with a weekly group, but they still take it seriously.  He showed up with a massive shiner last month because there are 22 year olds in his group throwing elbows and going full tilt.  That's just not fun anymore.  

Zig-zagging doesn’t matter a whole lot with a 12-gauge. When the buckshot scatters at the range Knucklehead was away from Ricky, it’ll clip a piece of the target. Still, Knucklehead had to be surgical with the first shot, which hit Ricky in the leg and stood him up, allowing for a slower and wider target, resulting in…

I mean, you’re not wrong. We’d be seeing a new $10 bill in the next year and a half if some popular composer hadn’t decided to make a musical about the guy.

Good response. I was going to say something similar. Some people are content living their entire lives in constant battle mode (like my dad). You learn to fear them because they are always ready for a fight. Guess they’re getting the outcomes they wanted. But man is it exhausting to deal with them. After a while even…

Thank you for making sure my jazz bonafides were checked. Whatever would I do without that jazz undressing.

Ugh. I’m in the DMV, a few nights ago while driving I tuned into the Quiet Storm on WHUR, the HOWARD UNIVERSITY radio station, DJ talking, “...that was Robert Kelly and Public Announcement, etc.” It took me a couple seconds to process that that was R.Kelly, they deliberately played him, and tried to shy away from it…

1. Americans need to stop trying to make Wakanda into the Coke Zero version of Black Twitter. Spades ? Stop it.

“Then there was Chris And Snoop, just out there killing folks on an unrealistic level that would have made Ted Bundy jealous.”

Lol, my dad did that when I was 2. I was terrified of him when he didn’t have his beard, so my Dad explained that when his face got too fuzzy, he needed to shave.

I will answer you as I answered them:

Southern University alum here...and the school Facebook page has been lauding he documentary all last week to watch (recorded it last night, waiting to watch w/my daughters though), but if you went to the school, you know the story...when I was there, we protested (less impactfully) the continued pollution of the…

I really enjoyed watching the documentary, but I agree I still was expecting a little bit more. As someone who is a graduate of a HBCU, I feel like our history needs to be told 10folds. These are the only institutions that we have that really belongs to us and we need to cherish that. I would have liked this to have…

M’Baku and the Jabari Tribe are Alphas:

Long ago, I was shopping at Bath and Body Works on my lunch break. As I was browsing, I heard a deep voice ask,”Is this good shampoo?”. Not paying much attention, I blithely said,”Yeah, I guess.” He then asked,”Would it work on MY hair? “. I look waay up (I’m only 5') and it was Mr. Hayes pulling off a beanie cap and…