Ashe.

the final quoted paragraph encapsulates the issue. the living of life dependent upon the approval of others, who, as it happens, are incentivized against approval, means that you will never, ever be ‘good’ enough to justify acknowledgement of your humanity, much less your equality. i’m fine with folks living their…

Look, if Kanye read books we’d be able to discuss the problems of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic. Since he don’t, I’m going to keep doing what I’ve always done with Kanye and only listen to the beats and only then if Talib, Mos, Black Thought, or Pharaoh (that took a long phucking time to spell) are rhyming.

One book for Kanye’s reading assignment: Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Yeah... I tried it, too. At Lenox as well. It... didn’t go well. Not that I was surprised, but, hey. Sometimes you just have to shoot your shot.

I still say homie from time to time, but usually when I’ve reached the heights of pisstivity.

I’m trying to process his safe apprehension with Breanna Edwards’s other Waffle House story in the feed to the left. I keep thinking about what happens with that dream deferred.

H. Rap Brown

I don’t slide, just... I don’t know, just cuz. I am somehow already the old Black man with the constrained nod and slight bop near the wall instead of on the dance floor.

He thinks he’s been looking forward to this for a long time? Those of us 40 and above are happily taking kids and grandkids to ALL of the movies and doing catchup dvd binges. Now if they do some New Universe movies...

Thank you for making sure that the images I have of this man are those of a loving father. These pictures of this man are not the ones I will likely find in other outlets’ reporting on this lynching.

This comment cured my stuffy nose. I laugh/snorted everything out.

I understand how I got beat by Uncle Ben, cuz rice and I’m a lowcountry negro. But how the hell I get beat by Uncle Jesse?

Zechariah 3:2

Wait. What? Is this really a thing or is this a pre-emptive essay? Please, let this just be pre-emptive.

My uzi weighs a ton was rockin JUST last night

Panamayne, you are where i often go for a fun read. Your piece on songs that get great after 4 minutes? Wonderful. Your mini treatises on working while dad? Hilarious. Your various tv show reviews? Often better than the show. YOU GOT A CALL AND SELFIE WITH OPRAH! But sometimes your shit is actually beautiful. Your…

y’all nigras, i swear. You and Harriot are killin me with these april fool’s stories.