For whom are the court battles “embarrassing”? I am not embarrassed. Are you? It damn well isn’t the NFL, because - while “corporations are people, my friend” - I am pretty sure they can’t, you know, feel. And, even if they could, I am like, positive that the NFL would be the kind of person that doesn’t feel shame.…

Glad he’s finally caught a break.

Rovell: Maybe it turns out racism isn’t even racist. Maybe it turns out the invisible hand is black.

Things like this lead to conspiracy theories like the one claiming that Gruden intentionally wants Griffin to get injured, but that doesn’t hold water for one potentially messy reason.

Wow, that thesouthlawn.org link is a must-read. Thank you!

The optics simply could not have been worse. We’re talking about an internet billionaire who was, in a very direct and real way, handed control of a city school district, against the will of city parents, because he could afford to donate enough money and because he had the backing of an ambitious politician. It’s no…

The Mark Zuckerburg/Cory Booker thing will make for an infuriating book some day.

Adolph Reed is a fucking genius. Definitely one of the brightest academics writing about this sort of thing.

Mckesson is symbolic of a really major battle that’s brewing within urban black politics, which is over ed reform. He’s a Teach for America guy and friendly with ed reform writ large; a lot of the emerging black nonprofit class are. But people of color writ large and black parents in particular are generally staunch…

“Sanders wasn’t really seen as all that serious a candidate until Black Lives Matter blew him up”

2/10

I live in Kurdistan and the influx of refugees all tells the same tale. This is happening to thousands of women and little girls. It will keep happening. And those that can do something about it like the Iraqi army, peshmerga, the U.S., Turkey and Iran, are all doing the absolute minimum, the least amount they can to…

I’d rather take a 70 something white guy than a 60 something that deliberately went through the trouble of setting up private email servers — SERVERS. Not webmail, not some hosted shit, but their own, private email server. Then there’s the whole issue of Super PACs.

I don’t care about race, age, or gender. I want a…

Quit saying you can’t possibly understand. Think about the hate that you felt towards anything that made you feel less than equal, an outcast, unduly treated. The burn that creates inside you. Multiply that by the knowing hopelessness that it can unlikely be changed in your lifetime, and that even if you are unscathed…

Why does his age or race matter?

If you think Sanders has no shot because he’s just another white guy in his 70’s then you don’t know him and you don’t know what’s been going on in this country.

Holy shit, this analysis is amazing. Deadspin - hats off you to for sorting through all of this and displaying it in an easy to read way. I just wish the root of all this was something to actually give a fuck about and not some PSI in a football from a one-sided playoff game (PSI aside, the Colts folded and got…

Remember When Pedro Martinez Killed One Yankee?

Stephen A. has longstanding contempt for perpetrators of black-on-black crime.