I’d bet that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s role as Black Manta in Aquaman got him the Candyman role (it sure as hell wasn’t his role as Sgt. Ellerbee in the Baywatch remake--even though he wasn’t bad, it was...well, it was still Baywatch)

Rejected script: Candyman:Gentrified/Don’t Open That (Green) Book!—Candyman comes back to haunt Cabrini-Green only to find the projects have been razed and lobster bisque cafes, tanning salons and Whole Foods now thrive there. Candyman says his own name in a mirror 3 times in disgust, hoping to end it all only for a…

I’m a grown ass man and I’m still not ready for a Candyman remake much less one from Mr. Peele.

I hope that Tony Todd, who is still out there, putting in work, is involved in the remake.

Just a reminder that, yes, Maryland is the South, being south of the Mason-Dixon Line. And no, I'm not one whit surprised that someone from Harford County would employ racial slurs, especially when talking about PG. 

It being committing suicide.

Wow. a Nero apologist.  Too soon bro.

I’m so aggravated about the answers given to the “Reparations” question. Except for Mariann Williamson who proposed $100 Billion in reparations to #ADOS:

While “fiddling while Rome burned” is a kind of obvious metaphor for his inaction (which is a common criticism for literally every politician when they don’t react quickly to crisis), he in turned blamed Christians and Jews for setting fire to the city, which sparked slaughter. Speculation was that it was basically a…

Well that's what royal incest will get you.

You have to be careful talking reparations, because you know white people will sooner or later demand that they should be reimbursed for the property that their ancestors owned and was taken from them by the emancipation proclamatiOn and the 13th amendment.

Great piece, although I skipped the Elizabeth Warren section to prevent my blood from further boiling. I really wonder how many Splinter readers bother to read ICT or other Native journals. I try to make it over to ICT at least once a week and am always amazed at the geographic breadth of coverage from Inupiat to…

I’m glad more native voices are heard. Too often we’re thought of as monolithic with the same problems. We have different opinions and problems. Yet the media pretends we’re in the past, loves the noble savage/persecuted victim trope and to whitesplain all the damn time. I have my own opinions on Warren but my tribe…

I almost gagged reading her self-praise about her having bi-racial and black kids and her selfless work for poor Indian people.

Smh trying to stretch out racism like it’s some kink to get readjusted. She needs to contort her mind & take a look in the mirror at a woman who wouldn’t be where she is today without the benefit of her white privilege. And that will probably be the scariest reflection of herself that she will ever see. 

Hell yeah mainstream journalism is all white people patting themselves on the back because they hired a brown copy-editor but then promoting their fellow white buddies to real positions and everything they write, so thus “the national conversation” is colored by those lenses.

The worst part of this post-trump era is…

Why don’t they explain that it’s not our responsibility to educate them so they will see us as equal human beings?

While they are free to give us zero grace and negative empathy, if that’s even a thing. No grace and empathy for Ms. Omar, right? No grace and empathy for the Black people beaten, murdered, and raped by police. Grace and empathy for white people who claim not to know that blackface is wrong in 1988, 1994, 2007, and…

I know the black candidates are going to try to walk the line...I know they are...but why don’t they walk the line that leans toward us. Why don’t they explain to the “good” white why POC don’t have to explain anything to them? Why don’t they explain that it’s not our responsibility to educate them so they will see us…

We both know