“TLDR: there is no real point to this anecdote except to say that sometimes AB is polite and sometimes he’s kind of dickish.”

True story: once, as I was waiting in line to get a scone at a popular bake shop in East Hampton, NY, AB swanned into the tiny establishment with his family and started waving his arms around directing everyone where to sit and otherwise blustering about being loud and, to my rather annoyed and caffeine deprived mind,…

I didn’t know absolutely ANYONE mentioned in the article or the slide show.

It’s only through reading a lot of Damon Young that I’m able to control myself from spouting the G word.

I will say that you are wrong as hell for comparing Lil Wayne to ET, though. Not because you did anything bad but because I’m bout to get fired for ugly crying. Nothing funny is going on at work and I’m making…

That’s not how alternative jurors work... they aren’t selectively dismissed. 

He would have been cut before he was guaranteed that $14 million.

His horrible birth mother is Jewish? My sympathies to her entire family line.

Does he really want to go back? Yeah, I know about the antitrust/collusion lawsuit, but still. Kap is out here making money, helping the community, and making women like me crush hard for a dude with actual morals.

Now that I am actually an Amtrak Acela-corridor using, H Street-strolling, Beltway-driving, DC metro creature, the CBC didn’t appeal to me. ... At least, that’s how I felt heading into the weekend until I picked up a former student of mine who was flying in from Ohio. He came strolling out of Reagan airport with…

Counter-argument:

You misspelled “Fuck George Zimmerman”

Ol Zimmy is half white and half Mexican and most Mexicans I’ve known do not ever identify with black.

“They took off their shoes and earrings and I feared for my life.”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:

Somebody tweeted at JK Rowling that they were going to burn their Harry Potter DVDs because of a plot point they didn’t like. She replied, “Well, you might pass out from the fumes and I still have your money, so would you like my lighter?” I always think of that when people destroy shit they already paid for in…

It was actually Black women who he blamed for everything.

Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. doesn’t have any regrets about his highly criticized eulogy delivered at Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday

This made me laugh out loud, literally:

Administrators at Buford City Schools, which is 46 percent minority according to Public School Review, has not responded to The Root’s request for comment