And for anybody about to ask?   This is why racism doesn’t just “die out”.  It’s not that simple.

Would GaGa be so willing to apologize about her work with the Monster Kelly if she wasn’t an Oscar nominee with the Academy Awards coming up?

All of these apologies are pretty much useless. I mean Gaga’s comes across as especially tone deaf as by 2013 Kelly’s issues were well know for over two decades. There is no making it right, the only thing they can do as people and artists is to move forward and make sure that the next R. Kelly is stopped dead in…

If they made money off Kelly, they need to donate it to charity. At a minimum.

Where was ultra progressive black ally, Senator Bernie Sanders for this? Why didn’t he come to her aid and add his voice? Oh, right white.

Owens used to be liberal, but she quickly found that her not so noteworthy views did not make her stand out among liberals. She has no particular talent or wit for it, but she really wants to make a living off it. So she decided that conservatives were much easier to convince, given their bar is considerably lower,…

“a dumb Stacey Dash”

By the way, since this piece seems to have brought the poor-oppressed-white-male defender trolls out in full force, let me save you the time you spend typing up your mental sludge by telling you what happens when a troll replies to me:

2 things for the whites greys responding to me: First, this should go without saying but since some of you need to hear it EVERY, SINGLE, TIME, I never said “all white people”. I said white people can be territorial. If you can’t understand the difference then you fail at reading comprehension and my comment is far…

First of all, as far as I know there’s no guarantee that these workers will get their back pay when Trump is finally indicted the shutdown is over. I believe a Bill has to be passed for that to happen.

“but is he just some random dude who goes around telling people to disperse?”

She didn’t need medical attention or she refused medical attention? I hope her parents took her to get checked out themselves.

The Root’s experts believe that her cousins are probably going to fuck him up.

This dude is so problematic I don’t even know where to begin. I have stated here on the Root multiple times before that I unfortunately had the opportunity to witness some of this shit up close and in person since I worked a couple of his tours, so I will hold off on a more lengthy tirade. However, this line sums it…

“I am very glad she will be getting out but it’s beyond shitty that they continue to paint what she did as a heinous crime. She was the victim of terrible crimes, not a perpetrator. “

My dude, unless you are in Nevada, every time you hire a prostitute you are breaking the law. No one’s going to shed a tear when your latest lot lizard takes you out.

I am very glad she will be getting out but it’s beyond shitty that they continue to paint what she did as a heinous crime.  She was the victim of terrible crimes, not a perpetrator. 

This made my day. Nice.

How fucking dare you tell a person whose family has been in this country for at least 2 centuries and has built it from the ground up to leave it because they ACCURATELY point out how the justice system works here?

And anybody with sense — especially when they’re living in this country, at this time -  knows full well that the only reason he wasn’t hunted down and apprehended immediately is that his victims are of color and he, the perpetrator, the criminal, the killer, is white.