I remember at the time loving the book, but also thinking, “Come on, no Administration would actually be that incompetent”. Oh boy . . .

“I’ve got a blender and some *much* better booze. If we’re going to start day-drinking we should do it right”

Allison is a woman after my own heart.

I think the dance sequence this time around is very different - in season one, all the Hargreeves kids dance alone, isolated from one another emotionally. Vanya in particular is the outcast. This time, it is three of them dancing together, enjoying each other’s company, and Vanya is emotionally connected with at least…

Naw, beets are the only evil vegetable

My father came from Sierre Leone. When he cooked, we ate out of the same bowl. I remember him handwashing our clothes by hand and telling me that a man should be able to do things on his own. Basically, not to be involved with the stereotypical roles of gender when it comes to Western culture. I’ve heard some…

Goatherding is HARD. At least cats kinda give a shit what you think. Goats DO NOT.

This. In a few decades we will look upon the kings and queens rhetoric with deep embarrassment. Like black respectability politics, it will not age well. The appeal is understandable though. We keep thinking we can make up for racism by hyping our magicalness. 

It’s funny because your ignorance about history (and the causes of that ignorance) is literally what this piece is about.

I like how you say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, and then each of your next three sentences are about how the Civil War was, in fact, about slavery.

I’m a history teacher, and the topic is much better taught today, but that’s completely dependent upon where you live. I’m in Chicago, so we can teach the whole spectrum of US history, not a whitewashed version of it. I really feel sorry for kids who live in districts where they’re still referring to the Civil War as…

Study tip: If you’re reading about Congress, and the word “Compromise” comes up, it ain’t good for people of color.

This show could easily be 9 hours long looking at all the awful ways this country has acted to promote white supremacy.

It was a great piece. Also a problem with the way history is taught is how we center white people and institutions as solving America’s racial injustices. Shit like “Lincoln freed the slaves” and “the Supreme Court ended segregation in schools.

Never trust a skinny chef, a fat land scaper, or a suburban white woman..

But close supervision, correction or expulsion of allies keeps the mission from being diverted or polluted. Which is why MLKJr. and men kicked out Bayard Rustin who tried to ally his Communist movement with the Civil Rights Movement. They didn’t need to change hearts, minds and laws about Blacks’ rights AND change the…

We aren’t saying protesting and being a BLM supporter isn’t good, (YAY y’all) but how about advocating and being an ally without taking over. Quoting E.D. Mondaine, the president of Portland’s NAACP speaking on well meaning white BLM advocates, “… show up like we need them to show up and not how they think is best”

I was just discussing some of this with a co-worker this morning, the WOM the Dads whatever name they use with the leaf blowers, its turned into a sideshow. At the end of the day (or night) do they know they are supposed to be getting the BLM message out there not putting on a stage show for the media? Locally where I…

I mean, that she built her career on the rails of the deeply racist, hugely problematic criminal justice system, and that she lacks the progressive bona fides of some other potential candidates, like Warren, are legitimate, substantive reasons to not want her to be the pick. That she is ambitious (something which…

Every VP in the history of ever was running for president. Biden has been running for president since the goddamn 80s and throughout the Obama presidency. Preparation and ambition are to be rewarded as long as they are accompanied by testicles.

This kind of story is kind of a bad idea either way you tell it at this point, unless you come up with something very daring and painfully honest. Tell it from Burden’s side and it comes off as some whitesplaining nonsense. Tell it from Kennedy’s side and it’s probably going to come off as some Magic Negro trope.…