Where’s GojuchanWhoseywhatsis to castigate me again for my comments about Yi weeks back. Jezebel deleted my entire comment. But now the hostage-taker has issued her demands.

She has no one to blame but her parents for allowing her to date & marry a predator/manipulator. But make no mistake, like Patty Hearst, we shouldn’t make up whole new psychological categories for her behavior. Nor should we blame BS mean girls for driving her to dress and act like the new millenial Mae West. Despite…

When you come back with the sites, be sure to include your screen name on each. 

Sounds like lil Donnie wanted to do some stupidly offensive shit on his show and the network said No. I don’t know, like some scene of him bragging about the best sex he’d ever had being with a white chick who called him ni@#$. He really really pushed and the suits told him he’d be cancelled if he brought it up again.…

So many excellent points! I’m especially proud of the young folk doing new stuff and carving out new paths. But even they are stymied by who gets chosen to be monetized and backed and elevated. Just as in your Gloria Jones example, think of the Black YouTubers, Instafolk & TikTokers who are super funny and interesting…

What you did was decenter Symone Sanders and her career disappointment. Then you listed the reasons you see why Massa didn’t let her stand at the front of the plantation while making certain to say hos nice it is to see Miss Anne out front. Then you can’t understand why the bucks back in the slave quarters even…

I hate the idea of wealthy people’s perks too. But it’s a reality whether we know about them or get in on them. And I know that’s one way white wealth propagates itself: high status careers get you visibility AND appointed to boards and commissions which is passive income for retirement. So don’t stop the gravy train…

I heard about the HFPA’s surprisingly fast commitment to sweeping changes by August on the BBC last night but somehow missed the bit about Tom Cruise returning his statues. I’ve gotta say that my reflexive Cruise dislike has all but dissipated. I like the MI movies and this is a good, unexpected use of his ‘stature’…

Can you recommend some Jewish sites that parallel The Root? I have some thoughts on the Ramadan violence that I know they'll really be interested in. 

Seriously, please tell everyone what is being done to stop these colonizers (specifically Bill) whose sole purpose is to ungrey the rando racists who want to delegitimize The Root as a space for Black folk to read and exchange ideas relative to our experience by 1) being first to comment inanely on every post, 2)…

When you read over YOUR defense of my alluding to your gender and rebuttal to your ‘positions’ do you see the Masterful Stylings of A Wordsmith of Monumentally-Adept Skill Worthy of a Pulitzer or merely a proficient comeback?

Really?! You’re joining the lovefest for Kohls over Barney’s simply because she doesn’t coddle NewsMax reporters?!

You can attribute Biden’s tendency toward gaffes to Ms. Sanders. Just as you can’t say that the clearly quick-thinking, smart, able to be on message AND spin a message woman who had a show on NPR, the radio station where they talk, can’t SPEAK WELL.

You really can’t be pro- or neutral about Symone Sanders then type an intimation that she would be akin to Spicer in the same sentence. Just say you don’t like her but ‘abject embarrassment’ and her name don’t belong together.

Why reply, legitimize and hold the door open for the colonizing commenters of The Root to praise white over Black?

Of course Ms. Sanders had a right to feel slighted. Not because she helped protect the candidate from the protester but because she was very, very well-qualified. I loved her on NPR.

Yeah, I was once tasked to take the photog my company used around 3 buildings so he could choose people to snap for some corporate intiative or other. It was pitched to me as escorting him through somewhat classified areas. But I quickly saw he wanted me to be the hype woman cajoling a bunch of Asians, older people…

Oh, the stories my family has collected about white folks: my uncles who were movers routinely finding Multiple used tampons under ‘pretty’ white girls’ beds. Kissing and sleeping with all kinds of animals and their various germs. The lady opening and tasting salad dressing bottles with her fingers trying to find the…

You also know a lot of people who automatically hold their breath around you, ask that you train them at work from across the conference table and roll away in their office chair when you hang over their shoulder. Then we ask you to bring soda or napkins to the potluck and don’t allow you to cut the birthday cake or…

I asserted the same once in a white woman’ s house, in the middle of nowhere, on a dirt road in farmland. It was an old house, small & cramped, filthy, bologna-smelling (mixed with dog!) filled with 1970s furniture with cowboys on it and twin, smushed down recliners. She LOUDLY pronounced her cleanliness about the…