Make a few pans of mac & cheese, throw on some collards, fry up some chicken, and turn your crib into a “Repast” pop-up.

Appreciate the post, but watch that video?

“black female nerds shared some of their own. Conclusion: Their male counterparts did not want to date them.”

I remember there was a story about a school secretary (?) a few years ago who intercepted an armed shooter coming into the school and engaged him in conversation about himself and why he wanted to do what he’d planned.

This is a powerful story, thank you for sharing.

Now that I’m grown and have gone half-way through one I feel like mortgages in general are a robbery. It should be illegal for someone to front load 30 years worth of interest. It takes at least 15+ years before you even start to make significant progress on your actual balance. And hopefully you bought at a descent…

I need to get netflix. It kind of sounds like The Wire, but with tainted water instead of heroin.

Nah I can’t say that. We’re all looking at the end state and not how dude got there.

My feelings on this are strong as hell, so don’t take this the wrong way: Fuck that pastor.

Nah. I am. It’s wrong.

What parts of rural Maryland make it not-southern to you? I hear this often from folks from the deep south, and always wonder what makes it feel different to them.

In 2005, my parents were forced to confront my coming out and immediately arranged a marraige to a woman in Somalia. My stepmother, who spent every single day of my childhood and youth beating me, told me I could keep chasing boys as long as I gave her some kids to tend to. The imposition of silence is a way to make…

This is very moving. Just last night I was at the opening of an exhibition at our National Museum of the 1817 slave Register for St. Christopher. The British passed a law requiring the colonies to create them to keep track of the numbers and origin of the enslaved after they abolished the trade in 1807. It was…

Family in Arkansas, spent a lot of time there. Southerners are syrupy sweet, but syrup on a turd is still a turd. And while I get the natural inclination against plantations, I hate that white southerners still hold them up as symbols of an economic engine they built, their “Southern Heritage”, which of course was…

What? My family’s from Florence. Also, cotton will shred the fuck out of your hands. We pulled seeds out of the bolls when we learned about slavery in Junior High. Imagine doing that for hundreds of pounds of cotton all day in the South. I actually cropped tobacco during the summer as a teenager. Fuck anyone who tries…

Ain’t nobody inviting Clarence Thomas. I’d assume that Wesley get an automatic invite AND would come. Wayne Brady is a good addition though, then again, his Chappelle stint made me think he’s more down than we give him credit for.

Alexandre Dumas, the dude who wrote The Three Musketeers, was black. His dad was a brigadier general in the French army and was originally the son of a slave woman and a marquis in Haiti. The titles went away with the French Revolution, but they were still considered nobility.

You are right about the need for “waaay more stars” (for sosolvly), and your statement “stars of savagery” is worthy and magnificent.