An excerpt form the NY Times -
Tethered to a Raging Buffoon Called Trump
by Richard Cohen
We are tethered to a buffoon. He rages and veers, spreading ugliness, like an oil slick smothering everything in its viscous mantle. He’s about to bomb Syria. He’s not about to bomb Syria. His attention span is nonexistent. He attacks the foundations of our Republic: an independent judiciary, a free press, truth itself. His cabinet looks terrorized, the way Saddam Hussein’s once did.
President Donald Trump is dangerous. The main things mitigating the danger are his incompetence and cowardice. We live in a time that teaches how outrage can turn to a shrug, how the unthinkable repeated over and over can induce moral numbness, how a madman’s manic certainties can overwhelm reason. He is very busy; people resist; he opens another front; people shake their heads. It’s hard to remember on Friday what happened on Monday. Trump’s is the unbearable lightness of the charlatan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/trump-hitler-europe.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Seeking Whiter, Richer Students
From the NY Times -
Colleges Recruit at Richer, Whiter High Schools
By Ozan Jaquette and Karina Salazar
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/13/opinion/college-recruitment-rich-white.html
Colleges Recruit at Richer, Whiter High Schools
By Ozan Jaquette and Karina Salazar
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/13/opinion/college-recruitment-rich-white.html
Pounded by a Mexican
From the Huffington Post -
Boxer Wearing ‘America 1st’ Shorts Gets Pounded By Mexican Opponent
The message on those boxing shorts is truly below the belt.
By David Moye
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rod-salka-america-1st-shorts-francisco-vargas_us_5ad0ee0fe4b016a07e9c2a24
Boxer Wearing ‘America 1st’ Shorts Gets Pounded By Mexican Opponent
The message on those boxing shorts is truly below the belt.
By David Moye
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| TOM HOGAN/HOGANPHOTOS |
Friday, April 13, 2018
Just Being Can Be a Problem
From VerySmartBrothas -
How to Make White People Uncomfortable
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/50-ways-to-make-white-people-uncomfortable-1825188582?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-04-12
How to Make White People Uncomfortable
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/50-ways-to-make-white-people-uncomfortable-1825188582?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-04-12
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Black Genius on Full Display
An excerpt from the Root -
Atlanta, Donald Glover and the Invisibility of Black Genius
By Michael Harriot
However, like the previously mentioned pieces of art, it will likely never be hailed for its genius because it is too black. But Atlanta’s blackness alone doesn’t preclude its value being perceived by the masses. There is another noticeable element that Glover subtly infuses into the show that might make it immune to white applause:
Atlanta doesn’t give a fuck.
The show’s subversive personality doesn’t even try to accommodate white sensibilities. It is not unapologetically black, because it seems to be unaware that an apology is even necessary. It is “I don’t give a damn if they’re watching” black. It is dripping with wet-lemon-pepper-wings seasoning, the hilarity of Caucasian puppy love and indifference to white eyes. Even the title of the “Sportin’ Waves” episode seems unaware that there exists a whole world outside of blackness.
https://www.theroot.com/atlanta-donald-glover-and-the-invisibility-of-black-ge-1825116384?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-04-10
Strange Fruit - Lynchings in America
An excerpt from VerySmartBrothas -
Dear White People: If a Memorial Dedicated to Lynchings of Black People Makes You Uncomfortable, Good
By Panama Jackson
What stood out most about the story on 60 Minutes were the pictures of lynched black people, often with several (up to as many as 15,000) people standing around watching the execution of illegal justice for “crimes” committed by black Americans.
In many of the communities, the lynchings were public spectacles, outings for the entire family to attend, dressed in their Sunday best, with callous articles written that read as if the public torture and deaths of black people were just what one did on a warm afternoon in September. As is often the case with American history, oftentimes it was.
Watching that story pissed me off. No more than usual, but it still pissed me off—though not for the reason you might think.
What truly pissed me off was that I knew for a fact that CBS would receive complaints that it had had the nerve to show the pictures of bodies hanging from rope as a public spectacle. I know that white people HATE seeing their fucked-up-ness. They hate it. They think none of it is necessary to see. To many, the story can be told without the pictorial proof of hate.
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/dear-white-people-if-a-memorial-dedicated-to-lynchings-1825117175
Dear White People: If a Memorial Dedicated to Lynchings of Black People Makes You Uncomfortable, Good
By Panama Jackson
What stood out most about the story on 60 Minutes were the pictures of lynched black people, often with several (up to as many as 15,000) people standing around watching the execution of illegal justice for “crimes” committed by black Americans.
In many of the communities, the lynchings were public spectacles, outings for the entire family to attend, dressed in their Sunday best, with callous articles written that read as if the public torture and deaths of black people were just what one did on a warm afternoon in September. As is often the case with American history, oftentimes it was.
Watching that story pissed me off. No more than usual, but it still pissed me off—though not for the reason you might think.
What truly pissed me off was that I knew for a fact that CBS would receive complaints that it had had the nerve to show the pictures of bodies hanging from rope as a public spectacle. I know that white people HATE seeing their fucked-up-ness. They hate it. They think none of it is necessary to see. To many, the story can be told without the pictorial proof of hate.
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/dear-white-people-if-a-memorial-dedicated-to-lynchings-1825117175
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