Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

The 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards brought more jokes about diversity than actual diversity. While the show bragged about their nominee talent pool – a record 36 non-white actors were nominated this year, a 20% increase over 2017 – the show’s opening number was a clever musical jab at the notion that the industry had done anything more than just scratch the surface of the problem. “We Solved It!” featured Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson, Tituss Burgess, Kristen Bell, Sterling K. Brown, RuPaul, Andy Samberg, Ricky Martin, John Legend and, wait for it… the “One of Each” dance troupe. From the stage, Thompson briefly threw to Sandra Oh in the audience, acknowledging her as the first Asian woman ever to be nominated for a lead actress Emmy. “It’s an honor just to be Asian,” she quipped from her seat. Thompson beamed. “You see? There was none. Now there’s one,” he said. “And so,” said McKinnon, “we’re done!” She lost. Oh well. One pre-recorded sketch featuring Emmy co-host Michael Ch...

WHY BLACK CONSERVATIVES ARE NECESSARY  Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Imagine not only is your image's appearance the same as yours, but its thoughts, opinions, allegiances, experiences, desires, fears, are all the same as yours aswell. You have conversations with your image. Yous talk about sports, Religion, Family, relationships, politics, reminisce about the past, and disclose your intentions for the future (which are exactly the same of course). You like him alot. You see him as yourself. And see yourself as him. But now that the conversations are over, what happens now? What did the discussion accomplish? Did you or your image bring anything new to the table. Any new ideas or a different point of view? No. Because yous agreed on everything. Now imagine your image has changed. It is now in total disagreement with everything you say. What you love he hates. And what you hate he loves. Your image hates your favorite sports teams, has a completely different reli...

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GENDER STUDIES A Look Back at the Reaction to 'Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People' a Year Later A year ago, a line in a piece from  Saki Benibo —an assertion also articulated a year before in  a tweet from Mela Machinko —inspired me to write something of my own based on that statement. The result (“ Straight Black Men Are The White People Of Black People ”) was my most read VSB piece of 2017. It inspired dozens of written and video responses ( including one from Panama ).  Jemele Hill retweeted i t—and then felt the wrath of 10,000 vats of ash. bell hooks even invited me to her institute at Berea College for a conversation. Outstream Video   00:00 00:00 Anyway, I have some thoughts on the reaction to it. 1. I’ve been writing publicly for 15 years now, and I can pretty much predict how a piece I’ve written will...

BLACK MEN VS BLACK WOMEN "In my bag here, I have a foolproof method for controlling your black slaves. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget you must pitch the old black Male vs. the young black Male, and the young black Male against the old black male. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves, and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must use the female vs. the male. And the male vs. the female." The Willie Lynch Letter: December 25, 1712 Welcome To The Combat Zone Surely you know that there is an intense gender war going on. This is a long running war that has pit Black women against Black men and Black men against Black women. This is a...

Colin Kaepernick, Dave Chappelle To Be Awarded Medal From Harvard University CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – Colin Kaepernick is among eight people s e t to be honored at Harvard University next month. The former NFL star-turned activist will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at the Hutchins Center Honors in Cambridge on Oct. 11. It’s described as “Harvard’s highest h o n o r in the field of African and African American studies.” “The medal h o n o r s those who have made significant contributions to African and African American history and culture, and more broadly, individuals who advocate for intercultural understanding and human rights in an increasingly global and interconnected world,” Harvard says. Kaepernick was recently the s u b j e c t of a much-discussed Nike campaign with the tagline “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” He started kneeling during the national anthem at the start of NFL g a m e s back in 2016 to protest racial injust...

GOP donor busted for calling Obama a ‘Muslim n*gger’ A Republican donor complained that black comedians can use racial slurs but he can’t — despite his repeated use of the N-word on social media and during interviews with reporters. Steven Alembik, a GOP activist who donated $22,920 to the Ron DeSantis gubernatorial campaign and thousands more to other Republican candidates, called former President Barack Obama a “F*CK MUSLIM N*GGER” recently on Twitter, and used racial slurs when asked to explain the post, r e p o r t e d P o l i t i c o . DeSantis spokesman Stephen Lawson denounced the “disgusting rhetoric” of Alembik, who also helped the Florida lawmaker set up a speech at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. The controversy is the fifth racism-related issue concerning DeSantis, who warned the day after he won the Aug. 28 primary that his black Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, would “monkey this up” if elected, referring to the economy. Alembik, a ...