God, remember McKesson? The corporate school reformer dressed as an activist. 

“I had seen things on CNN about the deaths of Eric Garner or Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin, and I would think, ‘Oh, that’s awful!’ … Then I look up, and I see me. And I have no words for that feeling.”

She’s not wrong. Tamika Mallory really does come across as spotlight-addicted.

God that’s sad. I can feel the pain, hurt and betrayal in her voice. And the clout chasing thing has been an issue for awhile with BLM. I remember back during the Ferguson protests, professional trauma grifters like DeRay McKesson and others descended on the town and took up a HUGE amount of space, oxygen and media…

I completely get where Rice is coming from. The performative aspects of Mallory at the Grammys with Lil’ Baby - and I do not want this to be a statement on the authenticity of their actual feelings on BLM - makes me uncomfortable because it smacks of neoliberalism once again absorbing, co-opting, and/or appropriating…

There’s always going to be clout chasers and grifters. If you keep your organization “grass roots”, then anyone can form up under the banner, and they may not have the purest intentions. If you build in a “corporate” structure to keep it organized at a national level, the grifters and psychopaths will start working…

But see, to me, whether it’s ignorance or grift, the moment you start manifesting that sort of nonsense, sensible people everywhere should take serious issue with you doing things, like, say, run a multi-racial women’s coalition designed to stand up to racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry.

Mallory never seemed to get the idea her relationship to NOI wasn’t really some special thing. But actually the it’s same story that anyone who found their way into some kind of religious organization during a hard time in life and then realized it had deeply troubling elements.

So Rice is perhaps understandably skeptical of some of the corporate infrastructure that has been built up around what is, at its core, an organic, grassroots movement.

thanks for this — you’ve touched on something that generally goes unsaid in “the dialogue” about Black Lives Matter, and movements like it — it’s not really configured to support giving people defined leadership roles. nobody can speak for everybody who has a stake in the fight. and yet within that larger fight,…

She has a right to her opinion and she puts her activism where her mouth is. I have little opinion but I can't imagine how difficult it must be as a parent knowing that she will never have a feeling of "peace" or "justice". Just a lifetime of sleepless nights and dreams of what a better world would have given her. 

I had the misfortune of dealing with her in the early 2000's just before The Osbournes. She was one of the worst human beings I’ve ever had to deal with. Would gripe over the most minute details and treat everyone like dirt. Literally nothing we did would make that woman happy.

1-I am the one moving the goalposts by keeping “racism” about the notion of “race” when other people want to make it about something else?

Wouldn’t put it past that vindictive, petty manbaby.

Ok, fair enough.

Don’t forget that her Dad was Ozzy’s manager and she cheated him out of it.  Her DAD.  But I’m sure she’s a nice person.

I had the misfortune of meeting Sharon Osbourne back when she was little more than Ozzy’s PR department and puppet master. She used to flog the aging rocker around the country under the auspices of “Ozzfest,” which for a few years was basically the premier rock/metal music festival. She was Ozzy’s minder, basically,…

Ok so I could be wrong about this and if I am I do apologize...but what Morgan said about Meghan was not about her race but about him not believing she has any mental health issues or had thoughts about suicide. So I’m lost as to how the whole racist card came up. I mean I don’t doubt he’s racist but I thought the…

Had it even occurred to Osbourne that Morgan was maybe looking for a reason to stage a walkout and get himself fired in a way that he’d be able to go work for Rupert Murdoch without breaking his ITV contract or having to wait out a non-compete, with a splash of “Victim Of Cancel Culture” headlines on the way out?…

Now, if she would have just started off with I don’t care what religion and or ethnicity anyone is, instead of ‘I’M NOT RACIST” matbe it would have come off a little better. Eveyone knows, I’m not a rasisct, preceeds something that just might be.  Has she not listened to Bill Burr?