The Root with the hard-hitting journalism of going after Ellie Kemper and Lin-Manuel Miranda for racism.

LMM has done more to promote minorities on stage and screen than anyone else in the last dozen years or so. Too fucking bad if there’s not enough of a particular minority featured in “In the Heights” - he shouldn’t have to apologize for shit.

Not sure it’s reasonable to say Rodgers flat out “isn’t smart enough”, nor is actually being smart a pre-req to host a show like that. Trebek hosted like 37 game shows before he came to Jeopardy!, he was chosen cause he was a game show host, not a Mensa member.

I love how the article tries to insinuate that it was terrible that she took a week to respond to this manufactured controversy. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

You might wanna look again:

Dude averaged 25 a night in DC and put a lot of asses in seats here. If the teammates you failed to name were dumb enough to gamble their own money away, that’s on them... And you definitely didn’t name the other party in the “guns in the locker room” story, Javaris Crittenton. The longest…

“the Warriors spent half a decade slapping around King James and shaking him down for lunch money”

Here’s hoping the Lakers stay healthy. I want to watch Lebron mow down the Warriors, Suns, Clippers, Jazz and beat the Sixers for the Championship. After that, watch the haters (like skip) find something to criticize. GOAT James.

So I’m really lost as to where you think the connection would be

It seems odd to me to think that there’s no reason to feel a connection to people who go to the same school as you, but some reason to feel a connection to people who play the same video game as you (talk about a transaction), but, hey, agree to disagree.

As you said, you’re no lawyer. You know who is? Steve Descanso, the attorney who determined there was no legal merit for the stop, dropped all charges and ordered an internal investigation.

I wonder how this trend will end up

Lady, we should be thanking and praising the Amazon delivery drivers. Where would we be without them? 

Case study:

A veteran serving as a police officer was fired for NOT shooting a Black man. As a veteran he had stricter rules of engagement and did not find Mr. Williams’ behavior to be threatening to him or other officers, so he did not shoot. Then he was fired.

Maybe it’s the stories I read, but I remain impressed how the people we train to go overseas and fight can handle this type of shit so easily while cops lose their shit if someone so much as looks at them wrong.

For the grays:

Even in the vile, sensory- and morally-assaulting, humorless void that has been 2020-2021, “Game. Blouses.” will never not be funny.

Get the fuck outta here with this bullshit.  

But how can you shoehorn that into a specifically anti-Uber/Lyft take? 

In the examples you mentioned the teammates continue to play and get paid.