This went a different direction that I would have thought. Though Drake is a pandering ass Negro, so shading him is fine. Also, your fear of the Beyhive is noted.

Thank you!  This shit doesn’t need a diversity coordinator, kthxbye!

There are some peak Negro-ism moments in film, and this is one of them.  Risking your life is no big deal, but how DARE you take away my honor!  Sigh...

My brother became vegan last year, and he hates most other vegans.  He's trying to get healthy, and people come at him about animal rights. He's a working class Blackety Black man worried about police brutality.  Why would he care about a damn animal.  The knock on effect is that he has a lot of new rasta friends so…

I’m just glad that you’re the one who made it. Taking chances is hard, and always will be. At least now you know what happened from following your passions. Good luck, and godspeed.

This is true, but this is definitely a both/and situation.  I’m aware enough of the history of Haiti to know that Boyer was a motherfucker who didn’t exactly fight like a gladiator against the reparation demands.  Still, White people have to own their shit in Haiti.

What’s scary about this is as fucked up as America and France were, Germany got in on the fun way more than is internationally recognized. How does a nation that really didn’t fuck with Africa like that, not to mention the Caribbean, somehow get in on the reparation “fun” to the tune of billions of dollars?  That’s…

#facts!  Not only is October my birthday month, but 14 is my old high school basketball number.  What did October do to you man!

I think it’s different as a single parent.  While you do miss her, you appreciate that free time.  I get a couple of weeks free a year, and it’s nice to go out for drinks after work without having to worry about who is watching my daughter.  Still, she’s just around so much that I wonder if I could somehow do both. …

The Kobe Shade is epic. I’m not sure the man will be able to see the sun again after this.  LOL

In other words, you have a form of soft laundering, as any revenue from the sale of real estate would be clean, right?

A few thoughts:

I co-sign on Baby Boy. It, along with Biker Boyz (the ultimate Get A Check movie which somehow had 2 Oscar winners in the lead roles) were both movies that were smarter than they had any business being.

I’m talking marginal differences.  Like an inch in height and 10 pounds in weight.  It isn’t much, but given how populations are distributed through averages, it has a social impact.  Otherwise, you’re right about Wall Street.  Plus, they got rich off of commodities trading., with Lehman Brothers being built off of…

I will say that people are springing more for top of the line.  Then again, in NYC, the fireworks stores in PA are advertising on local TV for people to come get their fireworks.  Of course, they have the fast talking guy say that they’re illegal in NY and NJ, but since when does that stop people?  I had a guy a week…

Why have the dude in the motorized wheelchair light the fireworks?  LOLOLOLOL

Also, there’s the history of slavery. Since slaves were purchased for manual labor, they tended to be slightly larger than the average White person. Throw in the fact that for a slave to be useful, you have to feed them something, and you have a historical narrative for Strong Black Man(tm).

Word.  Cops like enforcers because it allows someone to do their dirty work while giving everyone else clean hands.

The police thing is a national thing. Whereever you have police jurisdictions of small towns right on top of each other outside of large cities, you have this issue. New Jersey has a lot of the same issues, though they have a bit of a solution in county-wide police academies and cop licenses. It’s not perfect, but…

My brother is a Hampton alum, and there were a few White dudes around when he went. But yes, you never see any White women on campus. The only ones I’ve even heard of are those at Tuskegee’s Pre-Veterinarian program, which is considered one of the best in the country, period.