I had heard an anecdote years ago about an indigenous tribe in North America that only would allow those that had no interest in power or authority being the only ones to have power and authority.

Watching Dumbo back in the day as a black kid is DEFINITELY different than watching it and not being black. What some might not even pay attention to is talking about you and your relatives. AAAANNND being upset about it or calling it racist isn’t SJW histrionics. Not to drone on about it, but there is this looming…

The way I think it works is that say your friend texts you he has a truckload of “the stuff”. Your friend is a know drug dealer. You don’t respond to the text but you go and unload his truck. Unless someone was following you, collusion or conspiracy couldn’t be proven because no proof you did the thing.

Money is a helluva drug. 

Ahem..*clears throat*

XTC’s Skylarking- I like to play it on the first nice day in spring, start to finish.

Not to make light of this, but someone just permanently lost the ability to go to the cookout. Smollett is done. Good riddance. Now, we will have many hate crimes thought of as doing a Jussie.

I have been, MY ENTIRE LIFE (i’m 48) against racism, sexism and homophobia. I am also black. I really hope I am not an outlier, but knowing some of my relatives and peers, I may be.

Also, It is a PHENOMENAL book by great artists. I have the Audible which has a ton of folks, including the remaining Beasties, reading it.

Old guy response time...

It is true that Europe, as a whole, pillaged all of Africa. Even small countries owned a piece. That said, the modern diversity of France and England was just mocked by 45 saying immigration is destroying these countries. So, while I stand against historic imperialism, I am currently more concerned about shoving a…

I’ve been calling it a ‘Cold Civil War’, but then, I’m part of the 44% of African-Americans that think that. (We tend to be alert to the actions of the fox being as we are its usual prey in the henhouse/country)

Or these: Bible stories that show God’s approval of slavery:

A couple of things:

I have started to call this “The Voice Phenomenon” (aka. the Eminenem aka the Michael McDonald). Season after season, the Voice has super-talented black women singers that blow the doors off but the win invariably goes to anyone but AAANNNdddD the singers that go deep into the competition are often someone white who…

Uhm, I think what the commentor was saying is that Long Island is as racist as the total volume of racism and ignorance in the entire south; not that the south was entirely ignorant and racist.