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Did you read the article tho? The tone is pretty sarcastic and... Read more

I am going to be that guy- This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. She is free to say Trump is a racist. And ESPN, a private company, is free to fire her/punish her/do nothing to her if it feels like it. Read more

Also, in printed form, it would be libel, but that’s neither here nor there. Read more

Yea I love that one dumbass who went as far as to say she slandered the President. Last I checked if the statements are true its not slander. Read more

Takeaway: There are some dumb MFers at ESPN. Seriously, one person can’t see the difference between the Lin incident (which involved an unwarranted racial slur - that might have been an accident, sure) and a label (supremacist) ostensibly based on a person’s actual past activities? Read more

These are the same people who consistently conflate “calling out racism” with “being racist against white people.” Read more

Just a reminder that Donald Trump publicly berated Obama on a daily fucking basis for eight fucking years, continually insisting that he did not meet the minimum requirement to be president. In short, fuck Donald Trump, and fuck this hypocritical bullshit by the right. Read more

Our country has moved so far to the right that people who openly call themselves “conservatives” are basically authoritarians. It isn’t about consistency in the law, it’s about using your power to silence people you don’t like.
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“Businesses need to be politically agnostic or they risk alienating large swaths of the country whether you agree with them or not.” Read more

Remember, calling a white person racist (even if everything they do is racist) is the worst speech offense you can commit. Donald Trump can call Mexicans rapists, he can tell people that only Jews should count money, he can be sued for racial discrimination against black people, and he’ll still be elected president. Read more

It doesn’t seem as though you comprehended this story correctly.
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These shows will be very popular in red states and, literally, no place else. Read more

“If you can convince black women though, watch your career go to stratosphere.” Read more

The last paragraph of your comment is everything! “...black men are not the gatekeepers of black culture, black women are.”

What I find amazing is that she had folks falling over her left and right trying to make her a pop star a la “a Fergie, Gwen Stefani or Britney Spears”, and she *still* insisted on trying to rap - trying to use a style that demands a cultural connection she did not appreciate and did not bother with. Christ, *ICP* is… Read more

Well researched and written. The biggest takeaway is that she should have listened to the people around her. Even the song you posted in the article, had she dropped the blaccent and gone with Valley girl ala kesha in the first part of her career that would have been a cute little underground sleeper hit. Read more

This is amazing — thoroughly researched, relentlessly argued and really compellingly written. Thank you for making my morning with it!