It was going to be a no-win situation anyways with the native Americans and magical America. Don’t bring them up, and you’re erasing them. Draw upon native traditions, and you’re appropriating them. Make some shit up entirely, and you’re caricaturing them.

You missed the point.

Has there been any insight into why she does so well with African American voters given her spotty history regarding their interests? It seems so bizarre to the point of being baffling.

What is wrong with the greenery? why does it look like a videogame bullshot?

To be fair, it was a clock face with a bunch of wires attached to a few motherboards inside a briefcase that wasn’t a part of any assignment.

I hate when people make long tutorial videos to explain something when a paragraph of text would do. Especially when I’m at work and can’t watch videos.

Hmmm since the parents actively sought out the media and the article is based entirely off of their word...... I’m gonna go ahead and guess that there is a lot that they aren’t saying that might go a long way towards explaining the other passengers’ reactions.

Right.

Have we just, as a society, dispensed with the notion that if you’re a victim of a crime you should you know ... alert law enforcement rather than wait 10 years and file a civil suit? I’m not callous enough to dispute Kesha’s claims, but I feel like by not dealing with it through the official channels, the optics wind…

Today in “People complain about free stuff because they can.”

He's being given the Kardashian Retreat Treatment (KRT, trademarked). Step 1: Find vunerable black man. Step 2: Drive him mad or towards drugs. Step 3: Watch implosion and act like concerned wife/concubine/underage sidepiece.

Fuck Lexapro. He needs Haloperidol.

Under a Clinton Presidency we’d have no additional mental health funding and someone who you seem to show so much feigned concern for would be at great risk for being killed by police for the crime of having mental illness.

It was clearly VIII that was best!.. wait or is that just the one I played most recently...

Most white people have no opinion about this song. Of the white people who do have an opinion, most are listening to, requesting, and/or purchasing the song. Don’t believe Gawker that there is some sort of organized race riot... the story here is invented for clicks.

Who knows? Thing is, I think Kara is too young to remember that people clutching their pearls over music is nothing new. Ten years ago, remember the uproar the Dixie Chicks caused? People were gathering their CDs to trash them? Twenty years “gangster rap” and “sex rap” bands like 2 Live Crew had a whole court fiasco…

why is this non story getting attention?

Yeah, but this is inapplicable to her. She still believes, as an adult, that it was not coercion. It bothers me when people take the narrative away from the person they are claiming was a victim. It’s her story and her decision to determine whether she was a victim or not.

Where does this narrative end, though?

Moments like this I realise I live in a very sheltered liberal bubble. Maybe it’s living in NYC but I don’t know a single person who got offended or felt threatened by Beyonce’s video. Also, who the hell are these people? The video and song are catchy and yeah the political elements are there but they’re pretty light…