Well, first, anything they can spin as a negative against Obama is catnip to those fuckers, and since the half brother was more than happy to wear a MAGA hat and talk shit, of course the GOP glommed on to him. And second, the Africanness of the half brother fueled their ZOMG OBAMA’S NOT A REAL AMERICAN bullshit even…

White sister mad that black sister made it on her own? Shhhhhttt...News at 11.

Really, what more can you ask for? Actual recognition of queer folk’s humanity is a pretty high bar, you know. Don’t ask for too much- it’s greedy.

Tolerant is a good word. As in, I begrudgingly tolerate your right to exist and given the option, I suppose I wouldn’t actively wish for you to be brutally murdered.

Not even actually. They met Kedarie at the grocery or supermarket and intended to either charm, or abduct what they saw as a young woman. Read the AP link she shared, these people are just total pieces of shit.

Several things here; the kidnapping was because these men intended to rape a young person who appeared to be a highschool girl.

Wow, Ms white lady felt “unsafe” and she had the resources and the privilege to just move out of that “unsafe” neighborhood to wherever she wanted to live. Bless her heart, she will never, ever understand why this letter makes her look stupid.

I hope to God Caroline does not have a job that involves written communication.

Nope, people don’t have to be astronauts to make films about space travel, and they don’t have to have worked for the CIA to make a spy thriller. But there is something deeply insidious and dangerous when we see a vast group of people alienated from telling their own peoples’ stories. It’s a symptom of a national…

Thank you. This makes me feel much better :)

Seconding this, I would love, love, love a Nat Turner movie. I have my students read his confessions every semester and it is always fascinating to see what a polarizing figure Turner continues to be.

We all did, man. We all did.

This may sound horrible but when I was kid, I actually thought there was an underground railroad. Like a railroad...underground.

Personally I’m sick of historical biopics regardless of the subject (they’re always a letdown) but I could watch Viola Davis read the Yellow Pages and love it so I guess I’ll be watching this movie.

Can we talk about Cicely Tyson in A Woman Called Moses? I must have watched that eleventy-million times when I was a kid.

I, for one, am excited. For how long this “peculiar institution” existed in the U.S. and it’s enduring legacy on our daily lives (See: Baltimore, right this second) I don’t think there is a lot of popular media that addresses it squarely. A few, obviously (Roots, Amistad, Beloved, 12 Years a Slave) but that pales in…

Hollywood, we’ll take you seriously on slavery the first time you make a movie where all the white people are bad guys and there’s no happy ending. Make a movie about Nat Turner’s rebellion.

It’s a slave movie yeah, but it’s a slave movie about a bad ass real black woman who saved HERSELF- and then went back to save others. Harriet Tubman is such a great part I'm surprised they didn't offer it to Jennifer Lawrence.

the best thing we can do with this piece of shit is stop paying him for these fights. +$30m for one fight? this CRIMINAL is the highest paid athlete in the world??

I see your reading skills are roughly on par with Floyd Mayweather's.