The movie was miles better than the book. The book was a turd. The movie captured a Michael and Appollonia thunderbolt-style love story(?) pretty well. Thankfully there were no explosions.

There’s never going to be a 100% satisfying answer.

I get that, but some places like Texas and Florida have entire districts that basically function on and fund other areas by liquoring people up. With a few transportation alternatives like 24/7 (or close) rail/ bus/ etc. it could definitely be lessened.

There’s obviously a centrist vs. the left (and the rest of the tent). The President Elect bragged about “beating the socialist.” You can’t ignore that.

This is the worst take. There’s a depression and pandemic. Food driving lines *for days* and gig work patching up a comparable situation to the 1930s. This is the exact time to make demands from a (potentially) marginally more open administration.

“Reconstruction was ultimately a project left half-completed, and largely abandoned in the following decade” is generous.

*Strong* disagree re: Jim Brown. He’s been trying to negotiate plans for community investment for *decades*. He was at his height during LBJ and met with Nixon when black capitalism really took off as a distraction from benign neglect and he used a *lot* of his personal funds to launch businesses that couldn’t last.…

The best solution isn’t packing the courts, but weakening them. Why start an arms race over an unelected body that controls neither money nor arms? Working within the legislative bodies and passing laws is infinitely more effective at this point.

Pretty mundane choices. I wish there was a surprising uptick in sales of William Grier’s “Black Rage,” Frances Cress Welsing’s “Isis Papers,” or collections of Claude McKay’s poetry.

I’d love to see some black publishers getting the revenue and not the big publishing houses.

The upsides of social media are numerous: Free advertising (and during Covid, the business quietly increases), maybe less predatory behavior by 3rd party appos.

It’s not just KD. Most fraternities and sororities were formed to explicitly produce and uphold the traditions of the day. It’s not a mistake that many of the fraternity handshakes are the same as the Klan’s.

Peleton’s not in my budget, but the home gym? Great investment. I have a basic one I’ve setup over the years and swapped out/upgraded pieces. It really is a saving grace during covid-times.

I spent ~16 months trading on Robinhood. I got two major wins at the right point: 1) certain marijuana stocks shot up once Canada made legislative moves, and 2) a friend told me how Crispr was going to be *big*.

Guys like this don’t have to rule, they just have to prevent anyone not in their group from ruling. That’s through violence and murder. Those in his group can rule and give him some nice trinkets to keep him busy.

I’ve seen people waiting for buses, at the bus stop *on a sidewalk*, get hit buy 1) a bus 2) a car, and 3) a bike (actually, the cyclist hit the curb and flew off his bike onto a person).

The employee could’ve apologized *immediately* and tried to remedy the situation, but didn’t. Ms. Williams-Wright did the correct thing before and during the altercation: knowing her rights and displaying absolute self-respect even when being mistreated. Her family is in good hands.

I didn’t start during the pandemic, but about 6 months before. It’s great because the job is remote optional and they mean it as they’re prepared for it: remote docking hubs, company credit cards for everyone, corporate accounts for major retailers for home offices. I also knew they meant it during the interview becaus…

I definitely understand the idea of it being a tacky addition at an HBCU. I usually see these types of propaganda (because most films have an element of that) as a way to dissect the producers of these cultural products. It seems his pointing out the historical context *sort of* does that, but I’d expect more from a…

A cultural product like this is mainly the result of America’s degradation of black life. There wouldn’t be food deserts, obscenely low and unequal incomes, terribly unequal healthcare, and housing insecurity (if you get some space you own, you could *make* a garden) without it. And a product like this would never…

I think of this scene every time someone angles toward respectability politics: