This is indefensible and I’m glad the daughter read Mo’Nique for filth for that shyt. His family ain’t got shyt to do with their beef and she of all people is a survivor and knows better. 

Neither are my favorite, but I have been aching for someone to silence Mo’Nique since she first fixed her mouth to rant about the powers that be in the entertainment industry way back when. Gurl, you KNEW what time it was, and then dragged all of them for over a decade!? She made a career of not having a career and…

It’s not that Black people need to buy guns. We’ve got plenty. We need to buy assault weapons. We’ve got plenty of handguns but folks won’t be scared until we start stockpiling weapons of war.

Psychology shows comparing and contrasting things is a major path towards understanding and explaining things. While it certainly hurts a movement when people with racist conceptions or no editorial support make well-publicized pronouncements, turning off dialog is rarely a good answer.

I don’t think many people have an “If I’m sick, I need to make others sick just to suffer” attitude. More like, “If I’m sick, I can’t call in to work because I could lose my job” attitude. There are some that want to infect the world when they’re sick, but they’re going to be a very slim minority.

So I agree with the premise on the language being racist.

It is not chattel slavery. It is, however, involuntary servitude. The Thirteenth Amendment distinguishes between the two, and the Thirteenth Amendment banned both. You can’t compel a woman to carry a fetus to birth, increasing her chances of death in the process, without running afoul of the prohibition on involuntary…

“Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have babies are enslaved because the state claims ownership of their bodies and the right to dictate the use to which their bodies must be put. ...

Monkeypox is here, and it’s spreading. The couple of dozen cases in a few countries that we told you about last month are now up to over a thousand cases worldwide, with 35 reported in the United States. But the U.S. almost certainly has more cases than the statistics suggest, and there is reason to suspect that…

It is a big ask for most to fully grasp that homophobia in the Black community can trace its way back to Transatlantic slave trade and THE DAMN CHURCH, but here we are.

Rock and Chappelle are both makin bank off of being attacked, so no surprise they’ll turn it into a live show.

Every one of those cops that were on site while babies were massacred under their cowardly noses needs to be fired for cause.

All of this over piracy - or, more specifically, “selling cheat and modification devices for Nintendo hardware”, as the article put it. And even the judge went on to describe his crimes as “terrible”.

What about people who are falsely accused and spend decades in jail? People of color who are still locked up, even though it has been clear they didn’t commit any crimes?

All parents should question this particular plan of action now that Uvalde has reminded us that police and armed guards are under no legal obligation to actually PROTECT the children in the school (courtesy of the Supreme Court - at least not until a law is passed dictating otherwise).

One thing that fuels the disparity is the lack of outlets that lend their writing and media channels to the reporting of missing Black children. The Root could become another voice for that.

I’ve always felt that somebody set somebody up with this. There is more to this story than we’ll ever know. With that said, looking now, I think that Jada just set Will up.

I don’t think it’s blame.  Will began laughing until Jada gave him the cut-eye.

“G4 has only ever had douchebag viewers”

That’s not true. Early G4 was (by 2000s standards) pretty tame and generally good (if low budget) quality that was way ahead of it’s time. It was not flawless, but absolutely nothing from the era is. It (and by extension it’s audience) did not become a cesspool until the later years when they kept desperately trying…