Couldn’t agree with you more on our first two paragraphs. “...may illustrate the pervasiveness of the cycle of abuse.” Very well said.

Yeah, I came to say the same thing. He was abused as a child so it makes a little more sense that he has distorted views on sex and consent, etc. I read about those Corey Feldman parties on Vice and my first thought was “this is a man who is aching for some semblance of control and that ache comes from a deep place.”

Dammit, Drew. Take a knee, don’t take a knee....please just be consistent!

Please put “in self-defense” in quotation marks. Thanks.

It’s a slow day so let me entertain your folly. By your logic, shall “we” conclude that your support of the police is thorough and has no nuance and thus you are fine with their extrajudicial murder and otherwise disparate treatment of unarmed black men, women, boys and girls?

#AllKensMatter

That the NFL team owners would treat such a talented player like this who’s only “sin” was bringing attention to a real cause, whilst shuffling out black body after black body is as dispiriting as Drew paints it. And now I want to punish the NFL team owners. I want them to know that they can’t blatantly treat people…

Man, you only have a handful of stars (because duh) but this.

The irony of Clipper Pierce, Bulls Rondo, Thunder Perkins and Wolves Garnett having this therapy session...

Flip flops!! Lololol

Man, my heart skipped beat when I saw the headline. I thought Bob Ley had gotten canned!

Here’s a half-baked hot take that just dawned on me. Bear with me:

Now, white folk, repeat after me:

The truth in this response, VMB. Yes! And made me come to grips that, as Black folk, we really have no one to turn to. That stifling, choking realization that at the end of the day, even after all one goes through, it’s us against the world, even the things of the world designed to “save.”

Ha! I only figured it out because they were so brazen at the silent auction, even putting up his picture. Had he come back at that point, that shit would’ve been hella awkward. But they KNEW that he wouldn’t return until later because that’s Rose’s job, to keep him occupied.

Such a great metaphor.

Great explanation, hntergren.

Good question, scottbott. More credit needs to go to the actors playing grandma and grandpa because they were Black people pretending to be white people who are pretending to be Black; speaking like how white people think Black people (especially servants) think and act.

Fantastic commentary, Nicole.

She got a sister?