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Dr. King isn’t around to interpret his civil rights dream, but assume it’s gone off the rails more times than not under the unapproved adoption of his name. Everybody has their own definition now. Here’s mine. The dream was of a colorblind society. Where the playing field was entirely even …
Hollywood, a town built on sexual indulgence, nepotism, drugs, and narcissism has declared itself the perfect authority to clean up the nation’s pervasive culture of sexist exploitation and inequality. An odd choice for Sheriff. It’s only slightly less comical than watching alcoholic beverage companies encourage people to drink responsibly, while …
Texas high school girls wrestler, Mack Beggs, took home yet another state title this past week, defeating her competition, completing a 32-0 perfect senior season. Not unlike the state title and perfect 57-0 record in her junior year of high school. Nobody can beat Beggs, thanks to her grappling skills, …
I don’t care for guns. I’ve never owned one. I lost interest in guns as a male child about the same age we all stopped making dick jokes about one another in front of the girls. I understand their archetypal power, but the allure never stuck with me. As for …
Something nobody understands about the overplayed Rotten Tomatoes critical aggregation score is that it doesn’t measure how strong critics believed a movie to be, merely what percentage of critics said they liked a film more than not. A film with tremendous intangibles, say, a civil rights cause attached, unless it’s …
There’s a few things important to remember when delving into the subtext of entertainment and athlete promotional statements regarding projects. First, that there’s a zero to negative correlation between highly accomplished young actor or young star athlete and education. It’s simply rarely a priority in the lives of people who’ve …
Imagine Martin Luther King, Jr. trying to sell his followers on the fact that he might produce a black-exploitation film every now and then because the profits would go to a good cause. How can a black man taking control of his financial destiny not be in support of the …
There’s at least one valuable tool to keep in the social outrage toolbox — ignorance of the facts. The manipulation of stats that used to be routinely reserved for lying politicians and corrupt moneymen has spread evenly to those with an agenda and a Twitter account. The press is either …
We should all be so lucky in life to find a cable network desperate for programming to provide us a platform to rewrite the first 44-years of our lives in purely victim format. The chance to categorize sleeping with other women’s husbands and doing some unseemly things to get ahead …
Jen Selter is what the modern era refers to as an “instagram model”. Within that sentence tense I’ve hopefully distanced myself from the act of following Selter on Instagram for the past several years to leer at her incredible ass pictures. Me and twelve million other men willing to let …