Isn't that how just about every rom-com works?
...the breath of fresh air I needed...
This is the perfect palate cleanser for Gawker's shit sandwich.
It’s stories like this that make the internet worth having.
Jezebel has done its own investifartion and obtained an early version of the video in question:
Even IF (and that’s a big, big if) she did kill herself, I’m still furious. She had everything going for her, was down there for a good job, gets pulled over for something that is routinely ignored, gets roughed up, ends up in jail facing a serious charge and could have her life ruined. Over nothing. It’s sick and…
Within satire, there is often a hidden point. I addressed the hidden point within the satire, which clearly you missed.
End your own personal anal cranial inversion, is what this piece is trying to tell you.
“Maybe the right white response is just silence for a change.”
In which David Brooks advises himself to shut up and fails to take that advice.
Happy to add some context. This nonsense surrounding Coates’ book has been playing out all week and it’s infuriating. There was another Serious White Man blogger (I refuse to link or name him) who wrote a similarly condescending and self-aggrandizing piece “praising” (but actually being a dick) Coates’ writing. And…
I mean yeah, there’s the KKK and they suck. But hey, you guys have the Harlem Children’s Zone!
David Brooks wrote a typically clueless column about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book. The book is written as a letter to his son, so David Brooks thought it would be cute to also style his column that way. If you’ve ever read any of Coates’ work, he’s pretty unsparing in his observations about race and white supremacy in…
FOr those who are still clearly not going to get the point of this. there are a flood of materials out there that intelligently describe the many and varied experiences of minorities living in America. Read them, more than one of them, and break out of your little bubble to see what someone else might be going…
“hey, guys, what’s the exact opposite of the Ku Klux Klan?
Dear Ta-Nehisi Coates—how do you pronounce that, by the way?