“Even noted historians such as Carter G. Woodson, Lerone Bennett Jr., and The Root founder Henry Louis Gates are considered scholars of “black history,” which is different from “American history.””

I’m kind of sorry we won’t get to see Tulsi try to explain her vote on stage. Though, honestly, she’s not enough of a viable candidate anyway for anyone to go on the attack against her.

Regarding #2, there’s a lot of men who think the only reason Kamala Harris is where she is at is because she slept her way there. It’s disgusting. 

“He’s not in this part of the book” seems like a pretty weak defense. Like, that doesn’t mean he’s fired, that means he’s on hold. Also, if you were planning on making Anansi Boys, and having Jones reprise his role for that, he also wouldn’t really be fired.

Good to know criminal justice reform will be on the back burner come next year. /s

The BBQ joint over by the Lorraine has some fire wings. With the dry rub? My lord. 

I’m not going to lie, when I first saw the headline I thought we were talking about Booker’s baldness, and I was like, “I guess that is a position someone can have?”

They could definitely reference her Blackish character the way they had Witherspoon occasionally reference his Friday character. 

I think that part of the problem is that there just wasn’t a solid group of people who were for Kamala. I mean, look at the way the loud (however outnumbered) Bernie Bros always manage to shut down any criticism of Bernie. Kamala never seemed to have that group of people. 

This is kind of always the problem with propaganda. It obscures nuance for the easy groin punch. I think Kampala’s record was both problematic and taken completely out of context and stripped of nuance. That Vox article I’m assuming her team was referencing does a pretty good job of trying to inject nuance. But the…

Might be her attempts to reform the bail system. Might be her co-introducing a bill to finally make lynching a federal crime. Could also be the bill she’s working with AOC on to combat housing discrimination against people with criminal records. Or her vote for the First Step Act. Maybe her support for legalizing…

I think USAG would be a terrible move for her politically. For one, she needs to move away the perception of being a “cop”. Two, she needs to develop experience in other parts of governing. She has the legal experience, she needs a position that would beef up her diplomacy bona fides. She could also use some…

Yeah, I mean there were elements of it that were problematic. But not nearly on the level people seemed to think, and it was certainly far more nuanced than many gave it credit for. 

Hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but Tulsi ain’t the one to get rid of those bombs. She’ll just make sure they rain down on more Muslims.

It’s kind of a shame. She wasn’t my favorite, but I liked her. I think the narrative surrounding her tenure as DA and AG in California, while still problematic, became a bit convoluted (is that the word I’m looking for? I don’t know. Brain stuff is hard).

Wait, why is everyone talking about his/her sexuality though? Just because he/she is gender fluid doesn’t mean his/her sexuality is fluid as well. You can be gender fluid and into just women, or just men, or bi, or pan, etc. Did he/she say that his/her sexual orientation was also fluid and I just missed it?

Just erect bigger statues of Generals Sherman and Grant. 

This is maybe one of my favorite things you’ve ever written (that I’ve read anyway, maybe there’s a short story about ninja space aliens you wrote in high school that I don’t know about). Also, I literally laughed like a crazy person at Pete’s first words to you, and the bit where Greg mentioned the screen door. 

Toni Morrison’s book Song of Solomon takes about 5 hours to read. That’s about 300 minutes. Which means it would cost the average person ~$15 to read it (based on the $.05 minute price). Uncle Tom’s Cabin takes about 9 and a quarter hours. 555 minutes, $27.75. Assuming the reader makes $.58/hr, they’d have to work a…

I mean, conservatives are guilty of it too. But Pete is running as a liberal, and there are a lot of well-meaning white liberals who still ascribe to racist ideas by infantilizing  black people.