Since I don’t have kids, I’m unfamiliar but in 2021, don’t school districts have social media policies?! Cuz it seems to me that when Black kids started bringing guns to school or parking stolen cars in school lots in the ‘80s, Detroit was real quick to define the punishment the expulsion for ANY instance - Zero…

The legacy left by JustTryIt&SayItTrump has to be dismantled by fighting back each and every time. I previously thought I wanted racism, etc. more out front but naw, I don’t. Seeing how crazily brazen people have gotten over the simplest interactions in the last four years has definitely disabused me of that notion.…

Suburban Detroiter here: man I wish I had known this in 2007 when I bought one of my Tier 1 Supplier employer’s fleet vehicles, kept at the airport for one exec. In 2007, I bought the loaded 2001 Chrysler 300M with 24k miles for $9000. Garage-kept, I didn’t drive it much until Nov 2011 when it still had less than 90k…

I’m new ‘round here but as a survivor and former foster mother who was very active in Early Child Development and atypical care trainings, I believe more average, typical men need to take their thinking a step farther than maybe they’re comfortable doing or what they know or have experienced.

This is my problem with gaslighting sounding so innocuous. What we’re seeing with Rose is the result of a kind of bent-world psychosis induced by multiple evildoers, their amoral minions and the cowardly silent observers all working together, each with their own rationales to actually change the color of the sky. Anyon…

I wish her well cuz I know the bills don’t stop but if Yolanda Adams never sang another song or branched out into any other fields, she’d be an icon forever in my book!

Well congrats on career mobility! There are so few OGs left that I feel like some old chick in a brown wig at the back of the bar quietly singing...

Once while moving, I found $400 that I’d hidden and forgotten. Bone tired at the end of the night in the new place, I got happy again as I thought about the stuff I’d buy when stood up and flushed. My brain was so frazzled that it took just two fatal seconds for me to comprehend the found money swirling down the…

Come on, a little sympathy for my good Auntie! She was the ‘throw ya a $20 for the ice cream truck’ and never ask for the change Auntie! The one who took me to all the new movies, circuses and events & bought the coolest, most expensive presents! That’s why my ungrateful ass felt bad about laughing initially.

Imagine all the wealth lost.

The prosecutors should add on for repayment of the deployment costs of all those 40 officers like they do for search&rescue operations caused by stupidity.

Hey, where you been?! Frustrated and disappointed like the rest of us?

Couple of humanizing tales: vacationing with my aunt & mother chatting, laughing and having fun while rushing to get dressed, Auntie brushed her teeth with Preparation H! I was a teen and I laughed but it scratched & burned her gums! We called Poison Control and she was fine but I felt bad for laughing. Her taste buds…

I gave her all the empathy; I defended her tooth&nail in the comments here! But I have reached my limit. Anyone can mistake a bottle or just have a real brainfart in logic. But after all the care she got from the Black doctor, why in all of God’s green Earth would she put ANY chemical in her hair for several years to…

Yeah, my question was just hopeful musing. Believe me, having been to small-town Alabama with former New York and Detroit natives, I’ve seen how their assertiveness, initiative and bravery has been beaten down, firsthand. And they don’t realize or acknowledge it.

I applaud these efforts at supporting entrepreneurship! I’ve also visited some small Black rural areas and know that our folk do try to frequent Black-owned markets for fruits, veggies and meats grown/made by Black farmers & folks. We make a special trip to get to one spot (that looks a lot like the pic in this…

She’s my profile avatar on Netflix! And I listen to her podcast Why Won’t You Date Me when I need a dose of Black ValleyGirl absurd sex talk. But I dearly wish she’d ditch the dating desperation schtick.

Boomers really refuse to reflect on changing mores and modify their behavior. Especially when their backup is a friend with all the money and a platinum card at the ready.

Even if there is only one single actor blessed with talent to play every character expertly mimicking a Bennetton ad’s worth of ethnicities’ vocal tone and speech patterns...why They always gotta be white?!

“And let’s not move past the fact that countless little Black kids watched her be Annie, and saw a future in the arts for themselves.”