Twenty bucks says this does more damage to Billy Bush than to Trump.

I won’t be seeing this movie because it’s not the kind of movie I watch but the book, the confessions of nat turner, changed my life and should be required reading for all americans. That should be the fucking takeaway here people, as always, just read the fucking book

Did it bother you that the movie shows all of this graphic violence against Black people, but doesn’t give such loving attention to the violence to the white people?

This is what happens when people “don’t want one decision to ruin his life.” It creates an atmosphere in which serial abusers feel free to flourish with no fear of consequences.

Those people have access to a hundred years of films, books, and television all about slavery. If they don’t “know” about it, they don’t want to.

The difference is your family lives in a war zone. It is inescapable. They are doing what they need to do - going to whatever headspace it requires - to just survive it psychologically. And although you think your cousin’s blase reaction to Dinkheller’s death = strength and resilience, I believe it equals emotional…

Turner was inspired to rebel because he had a vision. He most likely wasn’t married; there is at least scant evidence for that. He seems to have had no children. He most definitely was not spurred to rebel because of anyone’s rape. There was no need to put in more than one historically inaccurate rape scene to…

“The game is bigger than you. Behave,”

Backer was fired in 2007, but VA still wrote him three letters of recommendation that landed him the job at Wesleyan, where he oversaw student sexual misconduct hearings.

If you think he’s mad, imagine how this guy feels.

Phone numbers in film, tv, and games have long been changed to fictitious 555-#### setups so real people don’t get harassed.

Today an e-mail and potentially a Twitter handle could be considered an equally personal and harass-able thing. I think his complaint it valid and going by the racial harassment and the responses…

I’m gonna go with: Badly.

Backer was accused of propositioning the 16-year-old via “lewd text messages” while he was an assistant dean at Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont. Backer was fired in 2007, but VA still wrote him three letters of recommendation

In the 1970s, my parents were intent on making sure my two siblings and I understood what it meant to be black in America. At four years old, I watched in confusion as the adults in my entire neighborhood rushed home to watch the original Roots miniseries. I was allowed to watch all eight episodes and while I couldn’t…

That the rape was a catalyst to Turner’s rebellion. Did not happen.

I agree—while slavery and its ramifications are an important aspect of the black experience, I question how beneficial these dramatizations are. They really don’t educate, as the author says, their purpose is to horrify. We all know slavery was horrific. There’s more to black history and the black experience than…

Given that the mainstream Republican party nominated him for President and its leadership is to this moment still officially endorsing him, I don’t think the burden falls on us to determine if he’s a genuine conservative. The official arbiters of conservative political life in this country say he is, Tim Miller’s…

No, until a white man came along who they could turn to instead. Palin support was only the racism part temporarily overpowering the sexism part.

She was the “everyman voice of the real American,” until it was embarrassing to admit that

Wait until January. You won’t be able to find a single Trump supporter on the planet. They’ll suddenly disappear like Keyser Soze.