Look, I swear I understand...but I sat and really let it sink in and my first emotion that bubbled up to the top was pity...like, ‘Damn, really? That’s jacked up.” I know how to be angry...I swear! I got the wild, wild, hunids’in me for life. But it’s just not there for him...more like my anger would be wasted,…

No, I don’t believe for a second that he’s a victim. And racists can find ammunition within anything that we do or say, good or bad. So I’m glad we just collectively say ‘fuck em’ and keep it moving.

I’m dying...

Chicagoan here. Yeah, there were enough folks this way that thought this was iffy at best from the start. Not trying to make excuses for the police but this occurred in the Streeterville neighborhood, which is on the Near North Side of the city (close to downtown and the actual North Side). This neighborhood is Big…

I’m born, reared and remain in Chicago and I want to say that EAST SAINT always has a special place in my heart. I feel the same way about Gary, too. There’s little pretense in both places...what you see is it. And looooong before Nelly hit the scene, my East Saint classmates back at ISU had me HOWLING because who…

Maybe there’s a spot for him in the new AAF league? They should pay him and get on with it:

Did Spiro decline the offer of support? Is it a way to direct money into his defense that maybe Spiro and Savage do not have?

Okay, sport. 

Resorting to name - calling is the hallmark of many things: immaturity; laziness; lack of imagination and/or intelligence; hurt feelings/feeling victimized, etc. In short, your response seems to exhibit some of the same characteristics that you were just railing against upthread and the very ones that you are now…

With the operative words here being ‘to me.’ I read your posts upthread...full of opinion and snark – your prerogative, of course. As a black person who lived in the 80s and is still living, a white man in blackface wouldn’t be worth my time or the trouble to reserve judgment for ‘all of the facts’ or something more…

Well, my dear, since this article is about forgiveness, I will offer my forgiveness where I’m sure it will do the most good - to you. Not so much for falling in with pre-paid legal, but rather for any damage that your career may have suffered because of it. I’m sure there are still people out there that will need your…

Did pre-paid legal really happen? Did you really quit?

No, I don’t think it sounds harsh at all. I have been telling people for a LONG time now that my money and I get along great, but we don’t always see eye to eye. My money can balk at some things that I can let slide and vice versa. We have an understanding. Enough said. 

I am a Gen-Xer as well and she possessed me in 5th grade with the ‘Diamond Life’ LP. I’ve been hooked ever since. ‘King of Sorrow’ is one of my top 5 fav jams, period. She is the baddest....

I want to agree with you, but I’m hopeful. Every line of the original was genius for its instant ‘quotability.’ I can see them messing this up, but again, I’ll be hopeful.

As for as Russell Simmons, Tyra confirmed that ish on her show years ago when she had him as a guest. I cannot find the episode on the interweb, but I saw it and recalled that she drug him for trying to hook up with Kimora Lee when she was about 16. 

*cough* *cough* *whisper* ‘I hate you.’ *dead*

Praise be to Black Jesus. May her left be a steady guiding force for justice. And her right be the cudgel to smite evil where it stands.

Howdy, Partner! 2nd-grade wrangler here. Thanks for the heads up. I will have to search the interweb cosmos for this.

Indeed!