Bite your tongue about his re-election. Otherwise, I agree with your observation.

What about Dick Tracy?

Agreed. When Obama won, not once but twice, I somewhat foolishly, naively thought that racism was on the wane. I never considered that what had really happened was that the more overt racism had gone under-ground, was hibernating. Just waiting for someone (the current POTUS)
to say that it was okay to come back outside…

I had one of my students (I teach at a college on the West Coast) make that argument when I did a lecture on racism and health disparities. He was basically, “racism will end when the older generations die off.” Without considering that just as we learn to tie our shoes from our parents, we also learn about their…

At the risk of dating myself, I have had Run-DMCs “Proud to be Black”playing in my head since the election was called yesterday. For those of you not as old as I am:

Sadly, I agree with that conclusion.

Bravo, well said! To the point that I wish I could give more stars.

I have so many reactions to these images, but in the interest of brevity:

Agreed. Well, according to Time’s clapback at Trump’s “refusing” the Person of the Year honor this year, we’ll know who it is on December 6th.

I know we’re all just riffing on who would make Trump lose his damn mind as Time’s Person of the Year, but I’ve just landed on one what would accomplish that AND also makes perfect sense given the state-of-affairs re: sexual harassment and assault — either the #me-too campaign or just a long list of all of the women…

Or Barack Obama, since Trump has dedicated his presidency to undermining all of Obama’s accomplishments. I think that if the magazine spun it as “look how far we’ve fallen from this once highly respected office” and also focused on how a sizable number of people wish that Obama could have served a 3rd term, Trump…

I see where you’re going with that, but in my made-up example, the individual was helping someone out a little because that happened to be what was needed. And, the giver of money cared for the person in need, so was happy to do it. That was not necessarily his/her last $5.

Point very well taken, kellove. But that would only excuse them from not asking about anyone that was alive at the time of their deaths. Surely there should be someone that had already passed on that they would inquire about? A grandparent, former teacher, old neighbor, etc?

I hear you and I don’t mean to “pooh-pooh” your theory, especially since when others during S1 discussions kept theorizing that Eleanor and co. were all in the Bad Place or purgatory, I thought that they were over-thinking things. Turns out, I was under-thinking things.

Correction — she had already had her coke-fueled epiphany and was either on her way to or from the bank to finance her idea when she fell on the third-rail, so she was likely sober at the time that she died.

Interesting theory, not sure that I am on-board, but it might explain why when Eleanore asked how many times Chidi DIDN’T help her, Michael said “none,” he always helped.

To be fair, Eleanor did ask about that when she was given the first tour in S1. She said something like “it didn’t seem fair” when Michael mentioned Florence Nightingale, I believe it was, didn’t make the cut.

Preach! I had similar thoughts in Season 1, but did not lay them out as well as you did. Not only would it be understandable if Tahani had wallowed in misery and self-doubt, given her upbringing, the fact that she channeled ALL of that into raising billions of dollars is beyond impressive. I honesty don’t see how…

There’s an article in Uproxx (10/5/17) with Schur and he said that the average reboot was about 4 months, with the shortest being Michael’s “butt-dial” of 8 seconds and the longest reboot 11 months. So he calculated that over 250 years had passed. So, yeah, everyone that they know is dead.

She said that when she was all coked-up she slipped and fell onto a third rail of either a subway or a train.