It’s altogether infuriating and depressing. Like, it really feels as though black women are out here alone sometimes.

Amen.

I was a kid in NYC at the time and I remember Trump’s ad. I also remember my mom taking me to protest rallies as well. “Bensonhurst, have you heard, this is not Johannesburg!” Jones Beach, Howard Beach, Central Park 5 and other episodes of black people being unjustly killed was my youth. It seems that will be my…

This is why I’m not here for any black person who voted for Donald Trump but particularly not for black people her age (43). If you are a black person in your 40's you are old enough to remember the Central Park Five. And you are old enough to remember that Donald Trump took out a full page ad in the New York Times…

“I didn’t really like either of the candidates, if I’m being honest, but I had to vote” - fuck anybody that prefaces their defense of voting for him like this. Also F her & ppl that are still using their religion as a crutch for not making informed choices & being terrible citizens of this planet.

Very good article. You were able type in a way that I wasn’t able to fully articulate my frustrations with why conservatives automatically think they are a party of Christian values. That’s not to say that Democrats are either, but they are not popularly linked with that ideology the way that conservatives are.

I feel like, even older hip hop used it a lot as well, but the genre was collectively more... underground? Now hip hop is one of the most mainstream widespread music genres, so more white kids are listening to it than 30+ years ago.

Mainstream rap is mostly a white kid’s fantasy of black ghetto life, since they are who the music is made for.

$200 on a new comforter.

“Mainstream rap of today is nothing more than a commercial vehicle for Big Pharma to push pharmaceutical drugs to the ignorant young masses.

“Basically exactly what I was about to write.

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You are my hero forever. Also, “bodak yellow” makes me think of what I imagine an Eastern European might live in. Example: Vladimir lives in a nice yellow bodak.

Mainstream rap of today is nothing more than a commercial vehicle for Big Pharma to push pharmaceutical drugs to the ignorant young masses.