REALLY well put, Michael. Point 3 is something I’ve been thinking a lot about in this context: like, unless you’re exclusively making bluegrass music, you owe a huge amount of credit to black artists. That’s a damn FACT. So where does cultural appropriation start and stop?

Sledgehammers are called a “Florida Hello” down there.

I just can’t believe this is happening in ...oh. Florida. Nevermind.

I have had nowhere NEAR enough weed tonight to deal with that commentary.

A mediocre white man who failed upwards wants to talk about the “crisis” facing men...

We need the name, employer & address of this colonizer.

Right? He’s been Black all his life. This never occurred to him?

These are the same people that shout “MENTAL HEALTH” to avoid talking about guns, while actively and proudly working to dismantle health care legislation that makes mental health care easier to access.

The best comment ever said on the subject was Donald himself, on the Nerdist podcast. “If you hear about a kid living with his aunt, whose parents died and uncle was killed in a robbery, what color do you think his skin is?”

Last time I said we need to find a way to stop a nut with a gun—and that’s all I said—I get an email saying, “I’m saving my last bullet to put it right between your eyes.” Just another responsible gun owner in America.

Whatever happened to “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me”?

People’s resilience and ability to not be physically harmed by words is not a reason to perpetuate demeaning and hateful expressions, even if they’ve lost some of that ugliness over time. I get what you’re saying here (they’re only words, right?), but this concept of “people just shouldn’t take it the wrong way” is…

I’m pretty sure their employer is perfectly happy with their language, as am I. I hope Donald Trump and his band of despicable, evil sycophants all get arrested for their crimes against the people of America.

Are you new here? Have this complementary bottle of water and strap the fuck in.

I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Deadspin community.

Counterpoint: My parents never asked me about my day. I promise you, that is far far worse.

“Why is the BET network called BET?”

My grandfather (who was polish) used to say “What do you call someone who’s black and blue and lies in the gutter?” “The next asshole who tells a pollock joke”

Have a relative who is quite racists and when you ask him why, he doesn’t have a reason except “because they’re n*****s”. So trying to converse with him about why is pointless because he apparently has no specific reason, and to be honest, I suspect this is true of many who are racist and live in rural communities…

As a bartender I try to curb then off with a joke. A very specific joke.