Teacher Buys Student ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ for Reading Class I could remember getting in trouble after being caught with one of my favorite porn mags in school. I was doing what all pre-teen boys would do at the time, but my teacher didn’t see it that way. As my luck would have it, apparently [...]
Oh, so you think unions are bad for business and workers. OK, here’s one reason why you’re wrong. Yep, and I’ll give it to you in one word. Are you ready? Here it goes: slavery. Yeah, marinate on that one for a few and get back to me. But don’t tell that to Michigan’s Republican [...]
Man, y’all black people play too damn much. OK, so I know y’all love Jesus a lot; yes, black folk go to church eight days a week and three times on Sunday. So yeah, there’s no question about that; and no, I’m not gonna put y’all on front street about the “white man’s religion” thing. [...]
Listen, Chicago’s teacher strike is very necessary and not just about money as some would have you believe it to be. I won’t presume to having a pulse on what’s going on in the city of Chicago. However, among the news of the one-day-old teacher strike, it’s good to know that people like Mitt Romney [...]
I’m here with yet another quick post-racial update for you readers. Yep, I’m here once again to show just how much things have changed for the better here in America. As you know, and as I’ve shown time and time again, the election of America’s first black president almost four years ago, has ushered in [...]
Pregnancy Pact or Just Young Black Girls Comparing Bellies? Does It Matter? I was presented with the picture below and asked to take a stab at making some type of social commentary from it. A group of young black girls with their pregnant bellies distended, smart phones in hand, in a bathroom somewhere rocking khaki’s [...]
So Charles Koch – one half of the infamous uber-rich right-wing money machine known as the Koch Brothers – had a meeting with wealthy GOP donors in Colorado recently. Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog is reporting over at Mother Jones that there is an audio of the Charles Koch, where in addressing would-be-donors, he referred [...]
Ariel Castro is currently in jail pending an $8,000,000 bond for the alleged kidnapping, rape, and torture of three Cleveland women. As the sordid details of his treatment of his victims trickle out in the wake of their rescue. I think we can all agree that Castro is a piece of shit. Yes, any man [...]
Dear Mr. President, First of all, let me congratulate you on your massive re election win back in November. I voted for you and am proud to have done so. However, I am troubled by the recent act by your administration of placing Assata Shakur, the former Joanne Chesimard, on the most wanted domestic terrorist [...]
My man W. Kamau Bell is back on FX for a second season of his show “Totally Biased.” I really dig this cat and the work he puts in as a board member of Applied Research Center — they’re responsible for bringing us the site colorlines.com. Anyway, this week on his show he took to [...]
Okay, so here is a story that’s bound to get my right-wing-leaning, anti-union, anti-immigrant pro-slavery readers full of joy. According to reports, fifteen farm workers in California were fired for walking off the job earlier than they were supposed to last week. Why did they leave, and why did they expect to have jobs when [...]
The Cleveland Kidnapping: Fifty Shades of BDSM Fleeting snippets of news sound bites declaring the horrors faced by the three women allegedly forcibly kidnapped and forced to live with their captors for 10 + years have been over all the networks and especially the national news aka cable news outfits. In all that I have [...]
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