Well said! The apologists need their moral compasses recalibrated! Just cuz time passed, doesn’t mean we SHOULD forget. Just cuz you gave money to causes you decided were worthy DOESN’T wipe away your guilt. Imagine what this role model, this inspirational/aspirational Black Man could have shown the world and the…

‘Tis true! Had this discussion at work wherein three other Becky’s attested that all you do is open the meat package and start preparing it! One particularly uppity one sniffed that she got all her meat from a butcher so she didn’t have to wash it. That’s when I politely explained why I don’t eat potluck food!

Who determines prestige? Who determines that someone who studied European authors, writers and playwrights are more brilliant and have more erudite or eloquent things to say about the universal human condition than someone who came from America or Africa whose work didn’t get distribution cuz RACISM?! Stop thinking…

Black Americans are so disconnected from communal philosophies like loyalty, commitment and honor that some actually believe they get extra points in heaven for voting/speaking up AGAINST their own interests in even the smallest thing. And our post-colonial reverence and deference to all things English is clear. Why…

In the Flint Poisoned Water Case, you CAN’T BELIEVE someone working in it wouldn’t speak up? And you’d like to SEE some evidence before you’ll believe governmental agencies covered up, withheld and lied about dangerous conditions? 

Agreed. Betsy DeVos’ political contributions got her the appointment, she’s from the Michigan millionaires Elsa Prince family, her brother Erik founded Blackwater (‘member the mercenaries murdering and stealing in Iraq?), she’s also a Mitt Romney and Van Andal relative. She ain’t no new money, she does NOT care about…

Why do we always ty to assign incapacitating excuses to only certain people’s bad behavior when the do heinous acts? Even POC seem to reflexively do it when it comes to white people. Why couldn’t this cop just be stupid? Or quick-tempered & quick-drawing? Or evil, not-so secretly wanting to see what shooting someone…

THIS! I thought Eric Holder’s DOJ report after the Ferguson investigation was going to prompt Obama to initiate a Federal non-partisan, un-elected commission for Police & Public Official Crimes with special investigative powers, specially-selected juries and sentencing recommendations and personal civil liability…

One word: UNIONS. Unions fight for certain rules and protections for their members after believing their Management ‘screwed’ them over a similar instance in the past. But keep in mind that the country’s attitude toward/support for unions have been weakening and trying to break them  since forever (Think of the just…

I’m going to speculate that the key was partway in the door, she was jiggling the door, he opened the door to see what was happening, she saw a Black man and reflexively pulled her gun and started shooting because (in no particular order) she had a gun, been taught to control EVERY situation, believes the protection…

Lil Rel or Hannibal Burress (If, and only if, he can speed up his speech and not stand with his arms behind his body)! 

No one is mentioning the love and devotion! She helped him raise kids from a previous relationship and she was no simpering, accept anything to have a man-type either! He knew that he had to keep up his manly-end of whatever their bargain was in order to keep her! I love this story and only wish he could magically…

Whenever the next Negro starts aligning him/herself with everything other than Black, let’s all just start screaming, “Ojibwe, Cree, Blackfoot, Lakota, Chippewa...” and any other Native tribes from our regions. Cuz someone’s got to defend the honor of all the Cherokee ‘Princesses’ that couldn’t possibly have been the…

The Clark Sisters alone are gonna make this Ariana chile rethink her whole life!

Wow, it must be terribly lonely to deal with your main backbone/Mom’s death, professional woes, trying to start new ventures, finding out that colleagues don’t have your best interests at heart, getting older, wypipo in general and specific along with the generalized ennui of being Black.

But Adam Sandler and Jimmy Fallon are geniuses fully deserving of zillions?

Greater Grace Temple has a good choir but honestly, I don’t know if they have any connection t Ms. Franklin other than the obvious one, gospel, but I would love for Marvin Winans’ Perfecting Church Choir to blow the roof off! He could bring CeCe & BeBe anybody else in the family THEN you could set The Clark Sisters to…

I'm so glad my hometown is showing it's Queen the Respect she deserves. Aretha Franklin being resplendent in all one color couldn't be more Detroit if it had Linwood and Philadelphia woven into the fabric! (For y'all who don't know, that's where her father's church sits). 

Requiring people to call you Ms. Anything insures that older men don’t call you Sweetie, Honey and Baby Girl in that condescending way that older people have toward young women (ask any waitress, nurse, etc). As a younger professional interacting with older people on just a equal footing (and sometimes superior) I…

The light of day? How about we hope that Tyrone and G-Dogg had a word or two with him?