Cheers to Colbert for having him on his show. I’m happy to see Colbert staying as politically/culturally relevant as he can instead of turning into a mindless host who cares only about celebrities and viral moments (looking at you, Fallon).

Nineteen days into 2016.

“You know, the police have killed 26 people just in 2016...”

Holy fuck guys.

Trish needs her own series. If the boys get Punisher, we want Hellcat.

I need more of this in my life.

The problem is that this book was published in the context of Texas getting textbooks around the nation rewritten to show slavery in a positive light (calling slaves ‘migrant workers’, for one thing). And there is a general move by many to whitewash the horrors of slavery...and Jim Crow and the pernicious legacy of…

Of course slaves had moments of happiness in their lives; I’m sure that there were moments of beauty and love that come under duress that are hard to imagine. A book about slaves experiencing happiness would be okay and probably extremely inspiring— finding joy and love in times of darkness would be a powerful book,…

Wow, even that was bullshit huh. 4 years researching it my ass.

The fact that Hercules and Delia are cheesing is the least of it.

I am sure some slaves did take pleasure in their master’s happiness. If Stockholm Syndrome can happen to people who have only been captive for a short time, how much worse would it be for someone who was born into captivity? Someone who might even be the child or sibling of their master as well as a slave? It is…

“To pretend that slaves were never happy or never had a good day or never smiled is to deny them a basic part of their humanity. [...] young children aren’t necessarily ready to understand that, but some people act like showing a slave smiling is like jumping head first onto a slippery slope straight back to Uncle…

“Fuck ‘yo cake.”

Sometimes I think people forget that just because the beauty of our humanity means one can find a way mentally to escape misery by any means necessary, is not the same as us needing to celebrate the very thing that made the misery and the escapism, a reality.

And I’m sure there were moments of fleeting happiness in the concentration camps of Germany, the gulags of Siberia, etc. etc.

Hercules was most likely not super amped about baking George Washington a birthday cake since he actually ran away on Washington’s birthday.

But this doesn’t appear to be a book about Black people who happened to be slaves, living their day to day lives, experiencing diverse human emotions. This appears to be a book about good guy George Washington, told through the eyes of his slaves. That’s not right.

I can see the point that young children aren’t necessarily ready to understand that...

It’s a shame, I guess “The Little Injun That Could” set during the Trail of Tears just won’t work in this pc climate.

I want to know how it got to this point. Really, no one at Scholastic thought, ‘maybe this might not be the best idea’???

Can’t wait for Ganeshram’s next story about those great blankets the white man gave the Native Americans.