If given the choice between being bullied by tween boys or tween girls, I’d pick the boys any day of the week.

The A’s are the optimal organization for getting built up correctly, getting called up early, then cashing in with a deal in a major market at first opportunity. He has a trodden path to follow to baseball riches.

Maybe do a little bit of research here first. Odell Beckham signed a contract for 5 years and 90 million dollars. You know who signed a similar contract in the MLB? Homer Bailey.

Shark’s in the middle of a NINETY million dollar contract with the Giants.

MLB has marketing executives? If they do exist, they all should be fired into the sun.

Deadspin won’t ever be happy until all North American sports leagues are a pastiche of the English Premier League.

If it was pre-rookie scale era then I’d agree. But at the end of the day he’s a 5'9" QB. There is no guarantee any QB taken in the draft is going to be good or even great, let a lone one with his size. If the pro-NFL argument is that he’d be an All Pro QB vs. an average MLB player, then an argument for the opposite…

The big hand-me-down church in my city is called St. Stevens Family life center.  Yeah, when the popular white church got they boy big building, St. Stevens snatched up the scraps.  Does Great of Good Hope count?

Or Power. Lawdamercy, the ones with “Power” in the name. I used to live in a place that had an “Apostolic Tower of Power.” My god, they thought they were so clever.

I was once in such a cult.

I’m a multi-ethnic black woman from the midwest and my people have been in the midwest for generations. They were homesteaders. I meet people from the south and it’s like meeting someone from a different country. I find that a lot of the superstitions (for lack of a better word) were just not present in my growing up…

As for myself I had knowledge of only a few of his songs like Step In The Name of Love, and I Hear Your Body Calling-- thought he was just a sensual adult swooning to other sensual consenting adults.  I had no idea of all the other trash that made it obvious he was singing to children.  I halfway want to listen to the…

This is the response I was expecting. You’re not going to get a disagreement out of me on why I don’t want THOSE FOLKS to know our lingo, trust me. I’m not with seeing anymore White or other folks keep mining Black material without paying homage.

The biggest thing to consider is that Blackness isn’t culturally monolithic (as Panama pointed out). My family is Caribbean and there’s some Black American stuff that is “foreign”. This is normal of Diaspora. So it’s not always about “pandering to white people,” it’s about reaching a wider community.

YES. I think about my 9th grade math teacher a lot - I had a huge crush on him, because he was young(ish) and cool and fun and I was just coming into my sexuality. And girls grow up learning (in subtle and not so subtle ways) that their value lies in how sexy/attractive the world finds them. Which means that A TON of…

It’s like in any awards ceremony bs intro “Film and TV creators have a responsibility...”, but it's no longer bs. 

We’ve gone from not believing victims of sexual violence to not believing victims of sexual violence unless a six part documentary has been made chronicling their abuser’s numerous offenses. I’ll just be in the corner alternately weeping over this state of affairs and rejoicing that technically, some progress is being…

The show made it sound like her niece is still hanging out with Kelly. It sounded like she might be the girl who was “grooming” the other girls.

“based on the fact that said girl is still rocking with R Kelly as a grown adult”

People ain’t really bout it like that. Everybody a gangsta and a boss until something real comes up.