This is such an immature take.   Seriously, sit yourself down somewhere and ask yourself if this is an adult response.  SMDH.

Sorry. This is a ridiculous opinion in my opinion which we are both entitled to. Jokes are jokes and add to cultural discussions. No excuse for anyone to be advocating violence. You should know better.

This article-your thesis and including the title-is regressive in so many ways. You’re arguing that Black folks need to impart violence-intentionally, publicly, in anger-on other Black folks when they stray from whatever narrative one deems as justifiable. That people’s (in your assessment) poor decisions justify a…

I wonder if being punched in the face actually altered any of Chris Rock’s insults/slurs/biases that author Candace McDuffie (rightly) condemned. I doubt it. Given how much violence plagues the U.S.—- & intensely so in the Black community, it would be far more helpful to NOT respond in the “talk sh*t, get hit” (or get…

I don’t have to mention every true fact for them to be true facts. And I have expressed literally zero animosity for Griner being released. In fact, I specifically called it “great news.” Everything I said is true. Everything you said is true. And how we feel about any one of those things doesn’t negate—or even…

First off, I don’t give a shit about Trump or why he “did nothing to free him”, that’s just a diversion and distraction from the real issues with this prisoner swap (besides, Trump was never more than a useful idiot for Russia, there was no “friendship” there).

She went to another country, broke the rules, wound up in jail, and got off while a Marine was forsaken by his country. Why are we acting like she was just minding her own business and they nabbed her? same with Asap Rocky and Sweden (?) though his case was more justifiable.

I don’t want her back in prison.  But trading a guy nicknamed The Merchant of Death, the most prolific arms dealer to the shadiest people on the planet, for her?  That’s a horrific deal.  How long until Ukranian solders are being killed with weapons he supplies the Russians?

Yes, I agree. keep in mind that Paul Whelan the ex-marine was accused of being a spy, so far no one has fiercely defended him not being a spy, why is that? Britney was a pawn in this political game with Ukraine. If not for that, they both would of been on that plane heading back home. America is still holding out for…

Yes, such a good trade.....Jesus Christ.

Griner being free is great news.

But it seems that Russia is pretty hard setting on making an example of Whelan.

Considering Russia had all the leverage in the world in this situation, I’m surprised they got Brittney Griner at all.
But it seems that Russia is pretty hard setting on making an example of Whelan.
In all honesty, Brittney being a basket ball player/celebrity saved her.
If you’re going to make an example, who are you…

This is all true, but the longer it keeps going the closer we get to the scenario where someone like Bout actually would be needed. Putin definitely won’t mind having someone owing him a favor right now that has experience getting weapons from country A to country B when A doesn’t want to be seen as being involved in…

I mean, if Russia needs an arms smuggler to keep its invasion going it’s in much deeper shit than we thought. Now, them needing him when under tight international sanctions is much more plausible, as he’d be smuggling guns out to get cash if anything or maybe to make trouble elsewhere like they’ve been suspected of…

It seems like there’s a lot of negative reaction to the swap, largely focused on (minor) celebrity privilege. People who do any travel abroad say they look up local laws, avoid doing anything they’re not sure about, and not do anything residents they trust (important, as an easy bribery scheme for policy is to get…

Viktor Bout is nicknamed the Merchant of Death and was notorious enough to have the movie Lord of War made about his life. Thousands have died because of this man and thousands more will die because of his release.

Nice headline, I didn’t realize that black women were the only ones advocating for her release this whole time.

We couldn’t even get the early version that included Whelan. This isn’t a trade to celebrate like this site believes, congratulations a WNBA player is coming back to the US, and Russia gets an arms dealer with a shit ton of experience in the middle of an invasion.

And all we had to do was release a arms dealer responsible for thousands of deaths.