When one apologizes, one is not entitled to forgiveness or absolution.

As for Léon, who has rightly been credited with sparking this very necessary conversation, in response to Manuel’s apology, she simply stated: “For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will…

Between this and the Lin Manuel Miranda piece it’s clear that there’s not point in people apologizing for shit anymore because no apology is ever good enough.

I saw plenty of dark-skinned folks in the opening number. I don’t know if they were Afro-Latino though.

I think part of it is the grift. Every scammer on earth wants a group of people as gullible as MAGAts. Look at all the cons: the wall, the books, the fake charities, etc... I think part of it is the cult. MAGAts are a dangerous radicalized violent cult as we saw on 1/6. Repubs talk tough but they are always cowards.

I’m always amazed at how Republican voters continue to elect people who don’t give a shit about them. Cruz left to go to Cancun while hundreds of his constituents froze to death. He spends all his time licking Trump’s taint and trolling on Twitter.

The judge who blocked this is a Bush appointee who is on senior status so hopefully Joe Biden will be able to name his replacement one day.

But with “96,000,” he and cinematographer Alice Brooks struggle with scale (they lose track of all the bodies in frame, to the point where it’s hard to tell sometimes where you’re supposed to be looking), not to mention some dubious green-screen dancing.

The welcome-home dinner made by Abuela Claudia (Merediz) boasts so much mouth-watering food: pernil, flan, tamales, arroz con gandules.

I’ve said this before on other stories but I like the idea of slavery re-enactments provided that white people get to play the slaves.

This reminds me of the whole “Hamilton doesn’t address slavery the right way” mess. At some point, these questions become self-defeating.

According to The Root’s sources in the Biden administration, an announcement will be made Friday afternoon announcing the review will finally be moving forward.

These people would rather bang their head against a brick wall then blame everyone else for their concussion than get out of their feelings and deal with reality.

Regina and Catherine’s rivalry continues unabated, although there was a nice moment when it almost looked like Regina had won Catherine over to her side, only to discover just the opposite.

Oh yay! Harriot has thoughts about democracy! We should totally listen to him because he’s never been misguided or wrong!

And it’s purple.

It’s obvious that white people all over this country just don’t have enough to do. We should enslave them.

Tried and failed. See: Richard Ojeda.

Manchin’s a dick, but if he ever does get primaried by an actual progressive Democrat, we can kiss that Senate seat goodbye.

Manchin got primaried in 2018 and beat his progressive opponent, Paula Jean Swearingen, by 40 points. Manchin is the best you are going to get in West Virginia.