Oh dude, there is such a big difference between his mother approving the publication of a picture of him in his coffin and the artist deciding to make this painting.

The racist comments on this story are weird. Like...abuse of women and children is something that men of all races and religions seem pretty enthusiastic about. So claiming his Muslim name or the fact that Jezebel didn’t show his picture (when of course, every link they provide takes you right to his face) is some…

But surely the kids are aware that it’s a game and they are not having money taken away for real...almost seems like an insult to their intelligence to suggest they wouldn’t get it. Just a thought.

Hm. Based on the transcript, I think Vanity Fair did mischaracterize what she said. The magazine made it sound like the children had no idea what was going on, but the direct quote says that the casting directors told the children upfront that they were going to play a game where they would be given something to take…

I am terrible because all I want to talk about is her eyebrows and how this is what I think I look like every time I get mine tinted and it is so awful so I use pencil but then I just rub it off because I have sparse eyebrows and a forehead rubbing habit so then I go back to tinting but then I think I look like this.

What is up with this chick’s eyebrows? It looks like she’s got caterpillars glued to her face.

I’m getting kind of uncomfortable with the focus on this man as if he is the only comedian who does this. Why the pretense that he is the only one making these kinds of jokes? Why not talk about every comedian—even the ones that aren’t Black men—who make these kinds of jokes?

Eyewitness reports: comedian still telling jokes. More at 11.

His jokes suck, but this line...

Cross post this to the root, I dare you

Fuck off. How’s that?

Whooo someone is pissy this A.M, the term “white allies” must really bother you.... doth protest too much, methinks ??

Also, mayyybe any low minority voter turnout had something to do with the blatant gerrymandering and vote suppression in many Red states? 🎶

The issue is... they should have let him finish his run, instead they cut him short and brought in an older legendary white guy to boost their sales, how could they not see how fucked up that is? I’m sure they can cast whoever they want next time around.... I don’t think POC are being like “well now that one of us got…

White people : the real victims

99 percent of the hate white allies get is justified, and 100 percent of the criticism the Root levels at them is justified.

Captain put upon over here. Read the article and you can see that this is a specific situation in which a black actors run was cut short to boost ticket sales. This is a specific context that you are taking to belly ache about how white folks are laid low by the specter of equality.

I’m sure if white allies eased up on the performative wokeness and bigotry the descriptor wouldn’t be so often associated with something negative.

“What would you have rather heard him say?”

So, this is my industry, and I am (among other things) an actor of color, and let me tell you something. I know how money works (for the most part), I GET that one of the worst problems with Broadway is capitalism. But when I saw this picture, it was at the exact same time that I learned that Oak was replacing Groban,…