Unfairly or not, a lot of black folks thought Obama was going to be our big “come up,” and were upset when he did not cape for us like we caped for him.

To use your example, that happens in everyday life with Black people as well, especially in the workplace. My mother has so many stories of that very thing you described happening to her in corporate America. The one successful Black woman being with a company 10+ years starts throwing side eye and attitude when…

Can say for a fact I never wanted to kill, harm, or maim a cracka but I never got that our very existence seems to make them go on a violent rampage.

Honestly, maybe it’s time to re-think that policy of letting politicians use their church as a platform at all. It’s just unnecessary and irrelevant to what people go there to do. If the politicians are there to worship, fine, may god have mercy on their republican souls. But if they are there to ask for political…

While her behavior is most certainly outrageous. This is a glimpse into a larger problem of blacks in position of power, doling out harsher punishments to other blacks, than they would to a white person, under similar, if not exact circumstances. We all are well aware of the uneven treatment of black people in our…

Well-meaning middle-aged white folks are going to lose their shit praising this. I can already see it...

associating this with demeaning cerebral palsy is quite a reach.

“Because white people feel like Terry. Nothing has actually changed in the world. They are simply nervous because no one is afraid of them anymore.” This and everything after.

Growing up men are endlessly praised as special, handsome, intelligent, and that women will love them.

“Not being like 100% of the time by 100% of the people” is pretty much the heart of this movement. After centuries of being King Shit, some of them are hurt and confused by being called out. So it’s basically the Hurt Fee Fees movement.

It’s not advice. It’s an explanation of the inherent contradiction that compels your anti-social bullshit campaign. You’re here because you disagree w/virtually every stance The Root’s writers publish. Unfortunately, you lack the sophistication to acknowledge your transparent motivations, much less offer any…

So why do you even bother to waste your time here? Did you and the rest of your triggered racist friends finished listening to The Cure album, and you need something to do?

Mmmmmhhhhmmmm. Sure they weren’t aware. The nazi, his nazi wife, and his brother-in-law all worked at this place and no one ever noticed or overheard anything?

Thriller, mostly because of all the different music influences evident in the songwriting. You had some pure pop tracks, a lot of jazz, even some metal thrown in. It was basically Michael’s and Quincy Jones’s full range on prominent display.

Monique, I love you, but there’s really no contest.

There’s one, maybe two songs, from Off the Wall that I feel are truly worthy of MJ’s overall oeuvre: “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” and “Off the Wall”.

“Rock With You” is pure kitsch. Not a bad song by any means, but it doesn’t feel like authentic Michael (meaning,…

I would say “Thriller” based upon replay-ability, and that I wouldn’t skip a track on the album.

Fuck Jezebel in general. The White-people-ing and White-women-ing over there is unbearable. They only care about becoming equal to White men so that they can rule the coloreds together. That’s it. They don’t consider Black and Brown women to be women because they don’t think of them as people. They don’t believe Black…

They don’t realize how crazy they sound. You can count on one of these chatterboxes to come in all upset to learn people really don’t want to talk to them, but we also don’t want to be assholes to them and PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. It never crosses their mind to maybe, just maybe, shut up if allllll introverts do is whine…

The comments on Jezebel reinforced exactly how gleefully complicit white women are in perpetuating racism. I really think that 53% figure is way off, and should actually be higher.

I fucking hate small talk. People are trying to argue that not engaging in small talk may make me miss “the one” or a networking opportunity. You know what not engaging in small talk definitely means: I’m not worn the fuck out after a day at work or running a couple of errands. Like, I don’t give a fuck about the…