The issue isn’t about the menthol additive, it’s the fact that Kools, Salems,. and Newports were/are aggressively marketed towards black consumers and inner city neighborhoods. Open any Ebony or Jet magazine from the 70s/80s/early 90s and count how many menthol ads there were compared to non-menthol cigarettes.

Hmm.

“I will state that I suffer Type 1 Diabetes and during the game my sugar was spiking,”...“it is not unusual when my sugar spikes that I become disoriented and often say things that are not appropriate as well as hurtful. “

The doctor who first diagnosed Diabetic Tourettes is being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine Whiteness.

I’m about to join the countless white people calling bullshit on blaming Diabetes.

The doctor who first diagnosed Diabetic Tourettes is being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. 

He took the 5th amendment during his deposition 75 times. That’s what, once for every $4 million he earned from the company doing the fraud? https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/fl-op-col-rick-scott-medicare-fraud-20181002-story.html

One down, 74,222,957 to go....

Floridans? Not cashing a government check? Yeah, not gonna happen on any plain of reality. Don’t forget, one this state’s largest industries is Medicare fraud.

Just one more day until we get an encore from Randy Watson & Sexual Chocolate! That boy’s good!

A little triva about New Jack City: it’s one of the rare films that was translated in Québécois. In Québec, the overwhelming majority of films are translated in Standard French. So all the curse words and expression are Québécois and it’s amazing. One my cult video rentals in the 90s.

True story. The men I know who cultivate strong, healthy, supportive and clearly loving connections with other men are fuller human beings. Through playful teasing as well as serious questions about perspectives, they are better at making space for vulnerability and growth within themselves and others.

Big fan of Kevin Michael Richardson. Although it’s unfortunate that he and Phil Lamarr voice like 75% of the black characters in animation. I’m hoping that this push will bring in more minority voice actors besides the regular few.

I was going to say, let’s thank Hari Kondabolu because this has broken me at age 36 because I’ve always just assumed (foolishly, obviously) that Dr Hibbert WAS already being voiced by a black voice because (now I’ll become Comic Book Guy) in the earlier episodes it was a different voice, but, now I realize, it was…

We should rightly commend comic Hari Kondabolu for, if not starting then building momentum, calling out the whole Animation Voiceover Industry for using whites to voice POC characters when he protested The Simpson’s Hank Azaria doing Apu’s stereotypical Indian voice. His continued speaking out on the practice has not…

Pretty much. 

What exactly does he think government is supposed to do? Just keep the streets free of Black people and collect kickbacks?

Read this but substitute Miller for Karl Rove:

All of Trump’s appointees need to be fired and criminally investigated.

The only thing Orangefinger ever drained was fools’ pockets.