Me and friend still take about it today about how blessed and lucky we were. 3 squad cars pulled up and surrounded us and we had no idea it was coming and if we weren’t so scared any movement could have resulted in our death. I appreciate your comment.

You’re welcome. I sorta broke down typing it at work. Thanks for listening/reading.

My mom has told me every day since I can remember that “Life is not fair” and “The world fears you because you are black”. The first thing she taught me when I got my driver’s license was how to deal with the cops. “Take your hat off, tuck your chain in your shirt, say “Yes Sir” and “No Sir” and make no sudden…

No need to apologize, I understand what you were saying 100% and I agree with you. There are always those buzzwords and landmine words that strike up a lot of resentment on race topics. There is a alot of pain in certain words that can be touchy especially with something as angering as this situation. I again want to…

I think they are getting at your wording. Even though you meant no malice, your wording implies that because these black folks are “well-spoken” and calm that they are one of the “good ones”, and because of that policing reform now is a no-brainer because they shot one of the “good ones”instead of the 1000s that may…

“I cannot imagine what people of color in this country have to face everyday”

Without that 1st championship that made him a household name, I doubt Wade would have made the endorsement money he did at the time. Kobe, Shaq, LeBron, Vince Carter, Carmelo, and Iverson were still big names in 2005 and when Wade basically single-handedly carried the Heat to the titled his spotlight got sooooo much…

Do we even have “movie stars” that carry movies now-a-days? That is why I find the “we need a bank-able white star to make money” an asinine excuse because everything is a remake, reboot, or adapted from a book or comic that already has a fanbase in the first place. If the movie is good people will find a way to see…

The best era of The Roc was when Jay, DJ Clue, Beans and Bleek (I guess Amil just because she was there) with Dame in a beater in all the videos and Kanye doing production without being really known yet. Reasonable Doubt, In My Lifetime, Vol 1, Streets is Watching, Vol.2, The Professional, The Coming of Age, The Truth…

That and how her representatives basically voted against pretty much all progressive ideals when setting up the Democratic platform including voting down anti-TPP policy and voting against $15 an hour wage (*crickets* for the mainstream media on her flip-flopping again). Democrats are just as ill-informed as…

This election has taught me one thing...Democrats and Republicans are the same. They make shit up to justify the terrible shit their candidate does and go full blown outrage when the opposite side’s candidate does the same thing. Example: Dems want to know all the shit Trump is trying to hind...when Clinton is hiding…

I am a black man and I went to a white high school. I was in honor’s classes, 10% of my class, varsity track team...blah blah. So even when I did get into University of Michigan and the other schools I applied to, the white students in my high school would tell me I only got in because I was black and I used to tell…

They don’t know that, because the powers that be always painted AA as “blacks getting over at the expense of whites”.

Yeah it is stupid, but you are right I got more important shit to be mad about. I am just amazed with all the shit happening in society people have time to be outraged by bad jokes made in 140 characters. I could be outraged that it is cloudy outside, but I got shit to do and bigger assholes to navigate around.

Because Oprah is the Con.

MLB should know better because RKO’s come outta nowhere.

To me it undermines racism in this country by trying to lump in white women as a discriminated group with people of color. Are they fully equal to white men, not at all, but as you said many benefit from being at the side of white men that are holding everyone else down, and on their own merit they are still doing…

I think this is more depressing (not shocking) for people of color and women of color. There are still a higher % of white female judges then there are women and men of color combine (22% white women, 20% people of color). So if you look at it that way, 38% of the population only is only represented by 20% of the…

Watch the Warriors, they have enough off the ball players. They needed someone that can create his own shot. Barnes couldn’t, Iggy couldn’t, Klay is afraid of layups, Curry was 3 hunting all series, and Draymond really isn’t a scorer unless he is open like in game 7, so Batum might be the 3rd scoring option just like…

Batum is a better Barnes, and if you watched the finals the Warriors needed someone that could generate points when Klay and Steph couldn’t hit anything. Batum is a better playmaker. He has 5 career triple doubles...Barnes has none I think. Batum is a slightly better defender than Barnes (he is longer I feel)and Klay…