I wanted to say I’m so happy to read your work here!! (I’m a VSB lurker!!) and I agree with you about needing to practice self care and wanting to hear and see other stories of the black experience.

As a film critic, does the over-the-top historical inaccuracy not bother you? And surely you know that if we want to see “ourselves” on screen, Hollywood is always willing to see us portraying slaves and maids. It’s everything else they seem to have a problem with.

Bigoted jokes aren’t a purely American phenomenon, but the manner in which idiots will do bigoted things and then act is if it were all in jest is. These dipshit cowards don’t even have the spine to own up to their shittiness.

I have a fairly decent sized flock of diamond doves and those are some happy sounding ring neck doves. They even do some wing ruffling and that means they are very happy with the situation and comfortable with the person handing them. But birds, like most animals, can show grief and become upset by many things. When I…

I’ve been volunteering in a wildlife shelter that has a few permanent residents including a dove called pancake. She’s so affectionate! When you’re cleaning her cage, which she has to share with filthy wild pigeons, she comes and jumps on your head or shoulder and coos in your ear or pecks gently on your scalp. She’s…

A Northeastern Irish Catholic living in a glass house should not throw stones. I mean, how would he feel about the following “fun jokes”?

Prince had two doves — Majesty and Divinity — whose singing could be heard throughout the compound when the singer was alive.

He had doves? Wow... that seems like such a Prince thing to do. Cool.

Exactly. All I know is 98 percent of black people I know have English, Scottish or Irish last names. I know zero Irish people with an African last name. That’s all I need to know about uber players in this oppression Olympics.

Say a quick Top o’ the Mornin to ol Bill. Don’t forget the whiskey! Irish love whiskey. And hey Bill? Feeling hungry? Are you hungry hungry or like 1845 hungry, know what I mean? Say Bill, where’s your kilt and haggis? No? That’s a completely different county and culture entirely? Oh Former/Current British subjects…

I just watched an old Archer episode that made this joke.

Yawned, farted and then left to flop on the floor.

Yeah, we’re not talking about the sharpest knives in the drawer here.

The only time the Irish-Americans bring that up now is to “prove” that blacks didn’t have it that bad. The Irish were slaves you know! Or so they keep claiming as if we aren’t able to look up the records of the time.

“Mr. O’Reilly! Mr. O’Reilly! Are you drunk right now? Do you have a potato in your pocket?! Have you ever drowned a Protestant baby for The Pope?? Do you like your lucky charms???”

That “karate” part is so fucking stupid. The guy’s outfit says “taekwando”on the back, which is Korean, and there’s a Korean flag hanging on the wall right behind you, dude.

Karate? No, but I know how to slap a bitch.

YOU MEAN BLACK PEOPLE DO OTHER STUFF AND JUST LIKE LIVE THEIR LIVES AS BEST THEY CAN LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?