“I’m so mad at you I’m gonna shoot myself in the ass.” BANG! “There, that’ll make you feel bad.”

They are a global company you sack of racist shit fucking county.

“Companies love making money, that’s what they’re made to do. Do you know how abhorrent you have to be for a corporation to be willing to put money on the line?”

Hi, police? Come quick, there’s been a murder.

Now that she knows what the event is all about

“‘Cancel Culture’ doesn’t really exist, bit if it did, it would be about people being taken to task and having their careers ruined for things they did 22 years ago, when they were dumb teenagers, probably under pressure from their families and peers, as part of an event with a racist past, that had started to show at…

Those who grew up with Google and the internet can’t conceive of an era when immediate deep sociopolitical analysis of every entity was not at their fingertips. In those days you relied on the few biased people around you, or the few biased tiny scraps of info TV or newspaper might drop on you. Look at the mistakes…

I’m a year or two younger than her, and I’m AA. I grew up in the St. Louis area. I vaguely remember when the name was changed from “The VP Fair” to “Fair St. Louis”. I attended both iterations of the event every year and looked forward to it, as did loads of people from all over the area and beyond. In the 90's, it…

I’ll jsut repost my earlier comment from The Root, since this article is even worse:

There’s more black people at Veiled Prophet Ball than work at the AV Club

“Cancel Culture” doesn’t really exist, bit if it did, it would be about people being taken to task and having their careers ruined for things they did 22 years ago, when they were dumb teenagers, probably under pressure from their families and peers, as part of an event with a racist past, that had started to show at…

When *some* people say “Cancel culture is a thing”, this is what they mean. Not the “it’s just consequence for your actions” kind of meaning.

It’s the south, basically every single institution “initially barred Black and Jewish people from joining”. I’m pretty sure whatever school she attended growing up also initially barred Black and Jewish people, and they were probably named after Confederates too. Does going to high school in Mississippi automatically m…

If we’re talking about damned-by-association for “being a part of something that has a super racist past before you were born” then every single damn one of us needs to get our apology tweets ready. I mean, let me tell you about Thanksgiving. If I catch one of you fuckers with a pilgrim/First Thanksgiving themed anythi…

I wish I knew what to make of this situation.  I know when I was in high school, all the elites and high achievers at my high school did cotillion, which was basically an evening where parents could show off their kids who dressed in gowns and tuxedos.  My parents wanted me to do it, and I probably would’ve, had it…

Of course, within context, it’s a State Fair in the 70s. It’d be hard NOT to have a Confederate flag somewhere in the background of any given picture. To me, as a little kid it was just the thing that was on top of a cool orange car (and not, ya know, a flag of racism and treason). I remember being in places like this…

Just about every American institution or custom has, at some point or another, had some kind of racist element encoded into its DNA. That’s the real story here. Not that some 19 year old competed in a dumb pageant. 

+1 for “dry snitching”.

The GOP is passing laws to suppress the Black vote across the country and you post this clickbait non-story about a fair with a racist past to take down a talented actress who did nothing wrong? Jesus.

There’s really not much of anything here. The headline and the beginning of the story made it sound like Erin from The Office was burning crosses and shit. Nope, she attended some corny debutante ball thing that has a racist past. Most of the US has a racist past.