Agreed! Good thing she deleted and apologized for them in 2019.

It’s so telling who we allow to “grow” and “learn” from past shitty behavior and who we don’t. This WOC made some shitty dumb tweets when she was a teenager, but Ted Danson did a literal minstrel show as an adult and we still love him on The Good Place. Kelly Osbourne implied the only people who clean toilets for a…

Well said about the ageism. It’s even worse over at Jezebel.

Yeah, I do find it a little ironic that many of the same people who endorse allowing people coming out of the penal system to “get on with their lives” and ascribe to the idea that “your worst actions do not define you” are often the same people who take hard lines against stuff like this. It makes me wonder.

I’ll be honest, it’s really difficult to view this as some feel-good moment or victory worthy of celebration. Essentially someone lost their job for tweets they made ten years ago when they 17 years old? And I’m not going to defend those tweets as they were idiotic, but this punishment feels wildly overt considering…

He’s a boring President, and that’s the way I like him.

It’s nice to have a leader who just does the damn job.

Please scream that statement about Hotep’s in T-Shirts again. These ashy brothers and sisters swear that they are about that life and if they were around back in the 60's they would’ve been part of the crew that talked a lot and did nothing. The Root used to be better than this, sadly they’ve become like Deadspin and…

I’m curious what is your statute of limitations on teens behaving stupidly? Yeah McCammond was wrong but does that mean she should never be hired by any company ever? Pretty high sentence I think. No one is without sin or fault. And most of us did and said stupid things as a teen. Luckily that was pre-social media for…

I’m expecting better from a senior editor at The Root. I don’t know why, but I am. Stop with the ageist shit. The man is working. And Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t “the break glass in case of emergency” chocolate Barbie. Don’t say “uphold the Black woman” and then proceed to try to knockdown the highest…

Didn’t even have to read the byline to know it was Crockett Jr.

President Joe Biden is old.

Unfortunately I think that this is something a lot of Black progressives have picked up from white progressives who have fixated on resenting boomers.

I would love to know the racial composition of the group of Teen Vogue employees who are probably patting themselves on the back now for getting a Black woman (and an outsider at the company to boot!) fired from a high profile EIC job before she even started it, based on racist Tweets that were clearly more ignorant…

I’m for putting more respect on the man. He’s been doing work, putting in hours, and surrounding himself with people that do likewise. The after effects of Trump make us think any idiot can be president, but no idiot can be as effective as President Biden has been so far. He’s not about young fun shit like dancing, or…

This piece would’ve been a lot better if it hadn’t been kicked off with ageism. I know you think it’s cute but it’s still bigotry. Just because someone is old doesn’t mean they are senile.

Stevie Plunder coming to the defense of a fellow grifter? I am shocked. I mean Talcum X, Thoroughgood Partial, Martin Luther Keyboard has now spawned a new generation of phony ass grifters looking to profit off of black pain. My god is there any low he won’t sink too? This is a rhetorical question by the way

King claimed Rice was “angry at the world” because she was failed by systems and various governments that failed to provide justice for her child who was killed by the police.

That’s not to dismiss the money— but rather to point out that the costs of what they’re trying to do is way higher.

You didn’t really read the piece did you? It’s not just DeRay. That piece is filled with the very receipts you requested from multiple sources.