I was thinking the same thing. That’s creepy as fuck, period. How come no one wondered why there weren’t any other teenagers around for an act that’s aimed at the youth? Obviously the professionals would be adults, but why would the random people hanging around not be her contemporaries and/or her family?

If they use Power in their name, it's always some church in the pentecostal/apostolic spectrum.  Even COGIC stays away from that, and they're pentecostal adjacent.

Huh?  Churches telling you how much you should tithe based on your salary?  That's some new shit.

Next, do names of shady sounding churches.  Anything with Worship, International and Center (unless it’s referring to something geographic) gets a side eye from me.

I don't know how else to explain that last paragraph, particularly since you said it in response to a West Indian guy.  How can it reasonably not be exclusionary?

I'm sorry, but that's very MAGA adjacent.  Assuming that all Black people come from the same place or have the same knowledge is exclusionary.  Either the diaspora and Northerners/Westerners are welcome or nah.  Southerners think that they're the alpha and omega or Black culture, and that everyone else is somehow…

I completely understand your thinking.  I'm Black on both sides, but those Black cultures are different.  I'm also a Northerner by birth, so there are some Southern things that fly over my head.  While I totally get not wanting to explain Every Little Thing, you have to also understand that not everyone will…

Interesting point.  That’s some real shit, and that’s also fucked up.  I could see someone in the power structure thinking like that though.

Teenagers are young and hormonal and up for anything.  That’s why it’s incumbent on adults to not let them sign up for stuff they might not understand the long-term effects thereof.  Any adult who takes advantage of a teenager like that should take an L.  Besides, there are plenty of hormonal teenagers around for them…

I’ll never get that.  Don't they realize that they were a couple of bad breaks from being the next contestant?  What's scared me over the past few years is how many women have gone to bat for the Arruh?  What else could he do to get through to you? 

That you saw some stuff up close, and somehow the stuff that made it on TV is worse is scary.  That tells you there's some unbelievable stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

3. That whole crew of enablers needs to catch cases, starting with Demetrius Smith. How could you know the scoop and not do the dip. I understand bills gotta get paid, but I’d work at Mickey Dee’s before that shit. And the bassist for Kells that kept on playing for him after he pissed on their daughter is all kinds of…

If Trump is smart, he’d reach out to Kells.  He’s lock down the Midwest doing that.  Their fan bases think alike.

What has he done since the mid 90s?  And why hasn't that stuff bubbled up since then.  He's been some level of famous since 2001 and his work with Jay Z.  What's going on? 

In this case, the meds argument fits because he's explicitly said that he's gone off his medicine, and that is reflected in the publish statements that he's made.  Kanye is an asshole, but it can also be the meds at the same times.  It's not either/or here. 

There’s also the cultural factor about swimming. My dad’s family is from the Islands, and while I’m not the second coming of Michael Phelps, I do know the basics of swimming. I’m also trying to get my daughter to do likewise. (Please comment with any suggestions in the NYC area!). My dad grew up swimming because HIS…

Another sign of a shitty dentist: a clientele that’s mostly working class dudes. I needed some crowns done, and the work done was type mediocre the first time. The second time I sat for 2.5 hours before I bounced. The doctor begged me to come back, so I got the work done. Then just as the work was wrapping up, they…

Even though I’m more of a Weeknd/Frank Ocean/SZA type with R&B, I might could go out to see a show of that.  It would be fun to watch.

I disagree with that.  A lot of dudes raping, beating up and disrespecting women listen to Babyface, Al B. Sure and gospel.  I don’t get the impulse to think that hip-hop somehow invented misogyny.

One, people change all the time, and in all sorts of directions. Acknowledging how something meant to you then, and how it’s different now is just acknowledging that you’re human.