Performance isn’t enough. Everyone can be criticized. No one is unimpeachable. And if you’re in your 70s and not willing to die on a hill that criticism is well deserved.

These monuments are being moved, so there’s going to be an interesting discussion of where they go and how it is *definitely* going to be paid for (likely through tax dollars).

A LOT happened between 1919 and 1955. WW2 and Korean War vets were back with their families and communities, dealing with the hardest times in living memory.

A lot of republican mailers are talking about the increase in Trump’s black support (I donate $1 to get on their mailing lists). What they’re *really* talking about is the shaving away of support from the democratic party. Looking at the percentages and numbers, if 2016's number are repeated, the democrats need to…

Forrest Whitaker actually *does* use his clout to put a lot of black film professionals to good work. He’s more than just a totem, but actually doing the things you suggest. There are some real ones out there.

It could be useful to at least confront this before Trump fully does. It clears a path for someone who suspended their campaign to jump in and maybe lead to a brokered convention, but who would be considered for selection at that point?!

I did see a weird question in a presidential poll in Quinnipiac asking about…

Forsythe County is terrible/ terrifying.

A lot of people wind up here because of US foreign policy destabilizing their homeland. It’s not literally at gunpoint, but if your land is siezed for use by US corporations, you have one less place to go: your own home.

There’s good documentation that Pitt’s exercise in New Orleans was a master class on gentrification. In an area with an average home price below 200,000, his “affordable” homes started at 450,000.

there’s a way in which, when a nonwhite person who’s just as smart (or smarter) as a white person can bring information or opinion that strengthens that white person’s positioning, they’re championed. But when that nonwhite person challenges the white person’s positioning? That challenge and the fact that they’re…

Is this article supposed to be supporting her? It’s highly critical and very dismissive of her.

There’s a willingness to slowly attack, discredit, and put accusers at risk (through publishing their identity) in most of The West. I remember France going full force when Dominique Strauss Kahn raped the maid in NYC. It’s just in the system.

Honestly, I’d be fine with a variety of movies that focused on different pieces of slavery. Most of the ones over the past ~25 years have been torture porn with a white savior. Almost none showing reactions against the institution, attempts to overthrow the practice, the “free” communities that interacted with those…

They need enough of us to put all the failure into. Without poor black people, the poorest whites would look at the overall inequality. Whiteness becomes another commodity that now has material value.

I’m fine with a larger number, because it means a broader representation of the electorate has someone they may support voicing their concerns.

Looking at these people as all the same is misguided. Look at whose been “cancelled” or even jailed over the past few years and you’ll see America’s elite class is making choices on who can be cancelled and who won’t be. If you think Chappelle’s jokes are a problem, that’s fine. But you have to acknowledge the people…

TBH, this is expected in the “go along, get along” club. Billy, and many guys like him, will succeed for not calling people out/ shaming those who need to be shamed/ challenging power.

Bill Kristol is licking his lips and grinnin’

Nah. He’s going to run for statewide office. Johnson promised to only serve 2 terms

Uber’s basically an ATM and a risk-deference tool.