I wish there were a way to star this more. Do you think he got into a dance fight with Wesley Klingonipes in a garage?

My father regularly tells white people in groups that he is leading that he has a gift for them. He’ll wait until everyone is quiet and listening and he tells them: “I give you the gift of not having to be God anymore. Now isn’t that a relief? Would you like to be human with the rest of us?”

This essay was great.

Hemmings family on line 3 and Washington family on 4.

Talk to Argentinians, white Chileans or Uruguayans. They’ll tell you quick that they’re not ‘that kind of Latino.’

“Should black folks trust the fbi....”

Because Spaniards can be ethnocentrist, too.

You assume that if we work incrementally, we will make incremental progress; that we can convince some of these people of the justice of our cause and slowly win them over. This is an argument that has been made by many for centuries about antiracism, black voting rights, slavery, etc. Your assumption is demonstrably…

Go back and take a look at the Uncle Remus stories. They are African American literature common to the American South and (curiously) the French Caribbean. Look at the story structures; they are classic Trickster stories in which the apparently weak destroys the strong. Brer Rabbit sometimes appears to be on the…

It also blows away the subtle anti-parent attacks that happen in some schools. “If the family just valued education a little more...” It also blows away the classist “everybody should go to college” mantra in many educational systems. It also explodes the foundation of uplift suasion / respectability politics. It…

Please let us have some of those other completely different articles.

Feel free to add stanzas, y’all!

weaponized saxophone

I looked at him, shook my head and then 3000 hit this part of the verse on Wailing right on time.

I JUST EDITED MY COMMENT TO PULL IN WHITE MIKE!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA

y’all are killing me. i couldn’t breath.

These are not facts. Not at all.

Bofa dem are road songs for me (don’t drink no more). Them bass lines start rollin and I’m on the highway? We about to hit some ground speed records.

More modern: We All Try by Frank Ocean and U R the One by Mos Def.

One of These Good Old Days by the Rev had me crying in the car on a Saturday night many many years ago.