This article presents a  better context. The previews I saw from Netflix were disgusting and completely irresponsible given the #MeToo and Epstein era we are in. Young Black girls in particular have enough sexualized bullshit to put up with. Enough!

Happy that Breonna Taylor’s family is being compensated on this level but the focus needs to be getting the killer cops/race soldiers off the streets and into prison. I continue to feel that the Benjamin Crump/Al Sharpton team place too much emphasis on financial settlements at the expense of true justice, and as such…

I am so happy for Naomi Osaka given the tremendous pressure her activism must have added to the match experience. So much poise, yet so fierce! So proud of her black identity - always celebrating her Haitian roots! She is authentic and not a poser: to her Black Lives Matter is a cause, not a brand. She is part…

No hype here, talent like mad, an all-around instrumentalist and that Otis Redding vocal style. Love his stuff - a real icon & pioneer. My fav continues to be ‘Time Tough’.

Yikes! That’s so rank! But anyone paying close attention to black people and the democratic party expect all kinds of crazy shit and opportunisms and situational ethics. In this case it’s another glaring example of situational feminism. Anita Hill also went quiet on Bill Clinton, basically giving him a pass, so voting…

Lafayette, La., is America.. same ole same ole.. it happened in the wake of Katrina too.. race distorts & cripples everything on the American landscape.

The Notting Hill carnival backdrop makes it a bit tricky and i’m not particularly annoyed - maybe it’s because i’m such a big Adele fan I’m deliberately blind to the appropriation vibes. 

“Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hands of police is honestly making me sick to my stomach...”

As a matter of fact, Nazi prisoners of war in Texas were shocked at how black folks in the South were treated. This is not a joke - there are published essays about it.

About now i’m pretty sure Trump & Stephen Miller are debating whether to send their new hero, Kyle Rittenhouse, an explicit ‘shout out’ during his speech tonite, or do it on the sly.

Trump & his repubs know their base, they play to their base, they have confidence in their base, and continue to proudly and explicitly feed & satisfy their cravings. They know very well that their white base finds deep satisfaction & joy in black humiliation and suffering. And believe me, that black-hating base will…

Good lord, obviously Michelle & Barack secretly decided to burn the Trump plantation/white house down, and they did so splendidly. I say let it burn! And yes, it was a mistake to have Barack speak before Kamala Harris - what were they thinking? It was also a tone-death decision to invite Bill Clinton (pedo…

listen, all I did was point out an observation from Michelle’s speech.. if you find it bullshit you are free to ignore it.. anyone who’s read my previous comments here must know that i’m not big on Kamala Harris...I am not your enemy...Ease up, mon!!

“during the fight for our literal lives.” Hmm, where have I heard that refrain before? Against Reagan, papa Bush, George W. Bush, and now Trump. Those who keep using that narrative do not understand black history and our ability to survive. Plus if you keep crying wolf every time chances are folks are gonna....

so you’re not pissed off? that’s your natural state? Okay, cool with me.

yea, right, as if these things can’t be edited.. My gut says Michelle Obama isn’t quite fond of Kamala Harris - many black folks aren’t. Time will tell. But don’t worry, I’m pretty sure at some point they’ll hit the campaign trail together; Michelle is like that.

My comment about pissing off people was aimed at Kamala Harris zealots like yourself... I hit the target!

For someone totally jaded about establishment politics, I’ve got to give Michelle due props. Her speech was brutal and beautifully so: she disemboweled Trump and his administration and scattered the organs all over the place. If the DNC has any sense, they’d find ways to replay that speech every night, especially on…

I admire LeBron James on so many levels and for so many reasons. If there’s ever a misstep, hope we go easy on him.

Wow, thank you! Beautiful! TheRoot at its best!