I live in Atlanta. I go to Morehouse. I have to say that myself, along with my peers, have really enjoyed the show. Is it absolutely perfect? No. Yet, it sets out to invoke very real and honest conversations. I mean, I’m sure everyone remembers the scathing, if short, monologue Earn has in “Juneteenth” about using…

Just gotta say, I love this show. I’m black and not from Atlanta and I feel like I connect with almost everything about this show. One of the moments that stuck out to me was (episode 2? 3?) where Earn is talking to his white friend from the radio and they guy says “nigga” while telling him a story. Then later,…

Affluent white suburban Trump supporters hide behind the suffering of working class whites, just like old time KKK pretended to care about protecting poor southern whites. It’s a formula they have relied on since Bacon’s Rebellion.

Huh? When has a KKK speaker riling up a mob ever led to the death of a black person?

No we don’t. He is guaranteed a right and only one platform by the constitution: His stupid fucking mouth. The university is a private entity and can do whatever the fuck it wants, just like twitter, kinja or NBC news. We as citizens have a duty to ensure that complete degenerates like Duke can open their mouths…

The Question: Should we stop a domestic terrorist KKK member from participating in our government?

I think it’s important to hear views like his. Just as a reminder to people that hey, people like this do exist still AND rank enough among us all to be here on this stage.

Exactly! When these Trumpers claim they are angry and feel silenced, what they mean is that they are angry that they can’t publicly call people racial slurs as much as they used to without any consequences. Women aren’t expected to stay in their place anymore, and people occasionally say it’s not right to discriminate…

You ever notice how Black people are expected to put up with shit like this for the “greater good” but these same people get mad when their commute or brunch is interrupted by a Black Lives Matter protest?

That’s fine. Have it on your campus but the idea that somehow having a leader of a hate group on the campus of Black people is somehow for the greater good at the expense of those students is an asinine argument. It’s also typical of how white people in this country seem to behave. We’re supposed to put up with shit…

Dillard is a PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, btw, genius. And even public universities have easily-found policies and rules about being able to prohibit certain things and people on their campuses.

You don’t get to tell me or any other Black person how we should handle or react to racists or racism. It’s amazing that you think you can.

What the fuck is going on in this thread? What is it with non-black people always telling black people how we should feel about racism? Why do they ALWAYS do this?

I just love this argument about how important it is for Black people to continue to be exposed to assholes like this, and that not wanting to be is somehow about being treated as if we are “fragile.” Like...we encounter various forms and levels of racism on a regular basis. We don’t need to experience or listen to it…

There is a difference between free speech and hate speech. Incitement and intent to harm a select group of people based on their race/religion/gender etc is one of those differences. Duke is a well known domestic terrorist and under the current social climate of the US he is now more dangerous with a platform than…

Sigh...another person who doesn’t understand what the right to free speech is and means. Oh, and I am Black, by the way, so I don’t need anyone else to tell me that I’m pushing the idea that Black people are “fragile.” Not wanting to pay for a white supremacist’s safety on your campus does not equal fragility. That…

Yeah...no. I, as a Black person, would not want my education money going towards protecting a person who thinks I am not fully human and should be treated as an inferior, enslaved, or killed. Differing political opinions are fine, but actual hate-group members? Nope. They can speak their views all they want but I…

I can believe that they didn’t know Duke would be part of the debate when the space was booked. But...once it was clear he was going to be part of it, was there no way to get out of it? To have a former KKK member and known white supremacist on a Black college campus is disgusting and disrespectful to the school’s…

It’s not really just giving a white supremacist a platform at a black college- there’s something perverse about denying the paying students access to the same space he’s allowed to spew filth in, protected by their school. If the school can’t keep the guest safe while allowing students to confront his heinous ideas…

I love playing the contrarian and I want to be able to say that Beyonce is overrated but then my god she just keeps putting out amazing album after amazing album and her performances inspire me - I think her adoration is deserved!