This was really all I had the time or interest to engage in. I already said what I said.

You were too kind here

Wait, before we get into the news, which is important, what’s really important is these kente cloth-wearing white people because that shit was hilarious. And so was the kneeling. I mean I know that the GOP is off the hook in their craziness, and as the secretary of minutes for the black folks, I have to say that this…

I think where appropriation gets so complicated, for me, is the fact that the damage of appropriation is so frequently due to the wider world which isn’t interested in engaging in context or nuance.

The Native American headdress has particular cultural significance similar to military insignia, though. What Adele did was more like going to Texas and getting a giant blowout and a state flag shirt or going to California and dressing like a slob.

I don’t think it does anything to normalize these hair styles when worn by black people. It only provides cover for the bans against such hair styles that folks impose intending to target black folks. If they can say “oh no it wasn’t racial. See? Adele wore them.” They use that as an excuse because they’re definitely…

I think Kelvin backed into a valid point there, albeit not the one he was really trying to make. The experience of Black in America is not the experience of Black in other places around the world, and people in two different places with two different experiences can have equally valid interpretations of the same event.

Yeah - it’s the sort of thing that, even if done with the best of intentions, is walking into a minefield. And while in a perfect world she could wear such hairstyles in appreciation/celebration and no one would think anything else of it, we most certainly do not live in a perfect world. There is too much baggage…

The issue that it’s mostly Americans complaining about it when in reality most foreigners are fine with her look, non-Americans see this as a case of Americans sticking their noses where they don’t belong, it’s a case of a cultural barrier where what’s seen as gauche in the USA is seen as accepted elsewhere(like how…

Wow, Kelvin, tell’em why you mad, son! Don’t be young, gifted and Black American around that dude, sheesh.

on Sunday, social media was a-twitter (see what we did there?)

Yes, I did. And if Trump had his way, posting what I did would be illegal here as well.

Of course China wasn’t going to lay back and take it.  Trump’ll come back to the table with his head bowed before long, just like last time he tangled with China.

Which is fine. I think it’s reasonable to expect people in sensitive positions not to have apps made by foreign companies. I think it’s less reasonable to demand foreign companies (who don’t seem to otherwise be demonstrably breaking any laws) exit the US market “because.”

The Trump administration has claimed that TikTok is a national security threat and could provide data on U.S. users to the Chinese government

Ommm...I think you are forgetting about the drivers lost income. Uber will probably follow suit. I think they are more affected than the riders.

“We are going to keep up the fight for a benefits model that works for all drivers and our riders. We’ve spent hundreds of hours meeting with policymakers and labor leaders to craft an alternative proposal for drivers that includes a minimum earnings guarantee, mileage reimbursement, a health care subsidy, and…

The ‘It’s not our fault’ mass message they sent out really made me chuckle. Lyft, I had a very minute amount of hope you would be better than Uber but you failed me, to no surprise.

The problem with being a “for profit” company is that you actually have to have a business plan that makes money over time. Probably not a great idea banking on self driving cars coming way earlier than possible.