I know it’s naive of me, but I kind of feel like, even if it was just for the grandstanding McCain should be all over this shit. Mr. Mavrick War Hero with a terminal disease should totally stand up and call this shit out. What the hell does he have to lose? At least he’d go down on the right side of history.

“filled with Shrapnel and Guilt” is a fantastic line.

You know it’s bad when you kinda wish Romney was president.

I wonder if Arnold was speaking out of harbored resentment toward his father in his statement... He didn’t go to the man’s funeral and doesn’t seem to be any fan of his.

I say remove the assholes, leave the horses. Maybe add a single “uni-horn” or some such piece of flair and honour the ponies who have fought in EVERY WAR.

Mitt Romney ripped Trump a new one today too.

It’s just like the kid in the video from Charlottesville who stripped his shirt off REAL quick once he started being filmed and INSISTED “im not white power, im not a racist, i just came for the fun” OH WHAT IS FUN ABOUT THIS? “oh well it’s just fun to say white power you know?”

I don’t know when this freckle on my elbow became kind of flaky and weird, but now that I do know, I probably should get it looked at. Just because I didn’t notice it earlier doesn’t mean it still isn’t a problem to be dealt with.

That’s not really true. Many people don’t know that country music is based on Irish folk music. This is the secret shame of the Irish...

I did a report on Stephen Foster in seventh (I think) grade and transcribed the lyrics of “Massa’s In De Cold Ground” without giving any thought to what they actually meant.

I almost think it should stay up. Why? Because, as a white person, I can tell you that this induces skin-crawling embarrassment for ye average white person. Nobody can try to drape it in lost-cause romanticism or give it any historic value beyond showing racism. The false benevolence, the hideous condescension, the…

It’s like teenage me innocently calling myself a Poutine Queen, because I genuinely loved poutine. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with French-Canadian Gay Men either, but I’m sure they don’t want to be in my mouth.

“negro airs” Because Michael Jordan didn’t exist yet, use your head. ;)

I agree. That statue is so over the top racist that you can’t really get mad at it. It also encapsulates the history of American popular music. It gets to stay. It’s racist, but it’s also honest.

y’all are killing me. i couldn’t breath.

We sang My Old Kentucky Home in glee club in N.J. in the 19490'-1950's. We had no idea what a darkie was. None. I guess we thought it was a blackbird of some kind. Little kids don’t ask. It was just a pleasant melody you could harmonize. Embarrassment came later.

Uh, not before The Rolling Stones one.

Darkey? There’s even something sinister about the way they spelled it.

So when’s the Miley Cyrus statue in Brooklyn goin up?

Yeah, this one needs to stay up because nothing, and I mean nothing, better captures white music than this statue. It’s all there.. overlord white man triumphantly self-satisfied with his own negro playing songs to make mighty white man feel better yes, but mostly to make mighty white man reel in hard owned money…