A lot of people wonder why he’s so weird. And sure, some of it is being into nerd culture, but he was also raised Jehovah’s Witness. If you know other black families in that religion, they are *very* insular and only socialize with other JWs.

This is a good point. However, a significant amount of their revenue comes from corporate buying. The TV contracts, individual ticket buyer, and apparel buyer represent the majority of the revenue.

I have a lot of family in eastern Alabama. It’s one of the places where a lot of all black towns exist and have no desire to integrate. I’m sure she didn’t the sh*tty comments from the guests, but it’s nothing new and I hope she gets to coast into a well funded retirement.

“Poverty and wealth inequality in the U.S. are vastly skewed by race and gender—year after year, women are more likely than men to live in poverty. Black women are more than twice as likely as white women.”

You’re not going to see any adjustment to this type of thinking (14 words) until you start deeply analyzing how whiteness develops families and changes institutions (churches, schools, civic organizations, financial businesses, and the military) to serve those purposes.

Ca we stop pretending that the Brady/Bundchen family doesn’t have a team of people, who are not with their own families, that do the majority of the work in their household? Imposing middle class scenarios on .01% people is a bad tool to express a point.

That 1981 number is inaccurate. There’s been countless extra-judicial murders of black people by civilians (and police) since then. Hell, James Byrd was in 1999 and that’s one of the most famous.

I appreciate the candor of someone like this. I don’t agree with what he says, but I hate the gaslighting that a lot of people use on a regular basis.

Is “his mentor Naomi Campbell” a typo?

I think Talley mentored Campbell.

Over 50% of those accused of sexual assault on campus are black men, but the group only makes up 6% of college campuses. There is definitely something happening here and it’s obviously racialized. Make of it what you will, but justice and due process should be the priority and not any particular ideology.

I’m surprised at how recent the list is. Most of the books are very recent and a lot start after ~2010. The oldest is 1969.

Denzel’s a professional and a nice guy. I knew his son John via football and met his father a few times. If you didn’t know he was a world famous actor, you’d think he was a an everyday guy with a sharp mind.

I’m surprised Derrick Bell’s hunger strike to get her into Harvard wasn’t mentioned. Guinier’s legal work made her a target of Republicans when she was up for assistant attorney general and a target of Harvard Law’s hiring staff. Bell took a serious stand to get her great mind onto that faculty.

The show is a reflection of American priorities: money, work, status, and efficiency.

If he hits a few hurdles and has no largely embarrassing events, he’ll be a congressman by age 28, senator by 40, and President by 54.

There’s a good amount of celebrities and businesspeople who live in the mansions around the Colorado river (Joe Rogan, Michael Dell, Lance Armstrong, Matthew Macgonaughey, Sandra bullock, and a *bunch* of WWE wrestlers).

This is why I setup deal alerts for specific items. The stress of trying to contend with other people over certain goods just isn’t worth it.

Sears is Jamaican-American, not African-American. I know it’s used as a catch-all term, but as someone of Caribbean and American heritage, there’s a distinction for a reason. 

I was at a PWI when Chappelle Show first came out and nearly *everyone* loved Chappelle when he was joking on black people: Clayton Bigsby, reparations, and the Crackhead character.

There’s a really good book, “The List” by Chett Dettlinger, that covers the whole investigation. He was on the APD and worked the case. So much of it gets misconstrued in the public narrative. If they actually got the people responsible it would expose how f*cked up Atlanta is from the regular folks and their kids,…