Top 5 opening sentences in Film Crit history.

Jesus H... I’m a socialist who thinks the Clinton’s are fascists and Obama is a crass opportunist. I outflank #blacklivesmatter, and believe capitalism has reached its end in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Japan. Throat clearing done, I found that one moment pretty badass. It was dope. It was needed. And it doesn’t mean…

NFL’s reaction would’ve been quite comparable, though hard to exceed, to Tony Soprano’s response when he pulls up into his driveway, runs over his golf clubs and finds Carmella throwing his shit out of the window. “What I do now, Carm? Huh?”

8. Jesus-on-Cleats is GOAT/Gawd

Since the political environment seems to be changing toward the absurd, non-white pseudo-radicals will say how it has to do with privilege and intersectionality.

Dude, regarding the opening paragraphs, were you fresh off a reading of “The Things They Carried”???

7-1, right? They lost 7-1 at home? smh

Your biannual reminder that cultural intrigue should never displace or stand in for political dialogue.

If I have any cynicism, it is directed toward the aims, stated or otherwise, of BLM. The last paragraph of mine you quoted, for instance, has no cynicism, but hope. If people looked around and said, “Why the fuck are these mayors and councilmen and women, making excuses for the police? Or playing the whole ‘bad apple’…

They what?! This fucking country, man...

Black families and workers have never looked around and demanded that only blacks organize around equality, improved public education and health care. Economics, not race relations, dominate poll after poll of AA’s and their ideas for what they’d like for their communities.

You’re a fucking genius. Here’s a treat. You know what? Here’s another.

Why the fuck is Barry Sanders doing radio ads for a Mens Rights divorce firm???

Stokely Carmichael kinda agrees, but since #blacklives matter... https://flexner.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2011/10/27/the…

Whoa! Expand, please...

To be fair, that’s like a Silicon Valley Thought Leader giving money to a New England Republican, tho...

Hi Monte,

Same here. Well, I had a feeling, but what was critically missing was the way I was thinking about this whole issue. That’s key to a lot of political and social developments.

Please share it to others. I think it’s not just what people think, but how they think.

It’s funny, cuz I read him in college, and apparently he made no impression. I recall never really being sold on organizing around a Black Studies Department (with fellow students), and arguing about race versus racism with a friend, all things that Reed, especially then, would have written about. But after college,…