Says a lot about his thought process that “this man had a family” was not an assumption.

He wanted to make a movie about his daddy; but, his father was an unremarkable man. So, he stole the legacy of a talented musician and the history of Black Americans to elevate his father’s average life (and make some money).

I hope Superintendent Johnson will be out with the same vigor on the talkie talkie shows when one of his own snuffs out the life of another black soul 

I’ll say it.

Yup. Why is it always black kids who don’t appreciate how hard their ancestors had things and need to learn it? WTF?

I wanna put money in the commissary of whoever beat his ass. 

Jennifer Blagg, one of the attorneys representing Van Dyke, said he is being made the scapegoat for the entire Chicago Police Department.

It’s not the choice to find love again that’s bothersome. That’s completely understandable, and should probably be encouraged in extreme instances like this. I completely get it. What’s not cool is moving the girlfriend into the house with the wife. That’s the disrespectful part. And I’ll be honest, the fact that…

Because it is disrespectful to her. She is knows who he is and what he is to her. She appears to still have lucid moments. She is now essentially the third wheel while he cavorts with his mistress in front of her in their house. Something something about discretion goes here.

If this was a Black woman doing this, not one person would “commend” her or be understanding or applaud her for living her life. She would be all kinds of whores.

I have no problem with someone whose spouse is suffering from Alzheimer’s being in an intimate relationship with someone else. People have needs, and I get that. What I do have a problem with is his bragging attitude about it and the fact that he has moved the woman in and is running all over town publicly making out…

Throughout history Black woman have sacrificed their freedom, their lives, their hopes, their dreams to care for sick husbands and children and parents. Loved ones with debilitating diseases, frustrating disabilities and emotionally draining psychological disorders. These same wives and mothers and daughters and…

The man is a historian.

Nobody’s saying white slavery is fake. But saying actual slavery was really just an indentured servitude gig is wrong and fucked up. It’s trying to downplay the sin of slavery.

“how that euphemism would have entered the lexicon and why southerners use such platitudes to attempt make themselves feel better about their history.”

Look, the first Africans that arrived in Jamestown didn’t sign a contract, they were captured and sold for food.  There is nothing indentured about that, at all. 

Non-white people know infinity more about white people than the other way around. Non-white people need to understand whiteness to eat, keep a roof over their heads. Black Americans especially have an intimate understanding of whites, they fed them, cleaned up after them, studied their world view for centuries. The…

If you’re white, you really don’t get to tell the folks whose representation is injured by the blackface where the line is where folks “move on”.

OK, I know I’m dating myself (like I did in high school!), but I remember watching some tv show way back in the 70s (no idea what it was, it did not last long). But in one episode a black man/couple was coming to a white person’s house on a social call. Which fed two jokes.

I’m not exactly sure why Bill Clinton and 1993 is the arbitrary cutoff point for blackface, but it was recognized as offensive way before then and people still did it. People still do it now. They didn’t give a shit back then and they don’t give one now. (Unless it affects their jobs THEN they see the light.)