Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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Stacey Dash Is Indeed Clueluess

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In what should surprise no one, Stacey Dash–best known for her role in the movie Clueless and these days known for her ignorant conservative soundbites–had some eye-opening things to say about the lack of diversity at the Oscars and holidays in general:

“We have to make up our minds,” she said. “Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the (NAACP) Image Awards where you’re only awarded if you’re black. … “Just like there shouldn’t be a Black History Month. You know?” she said. “We’re Americans. Period. That’s it.”

Doocy then asked if she meant there “shouldn’t be a Black History Month because there isn’t a white history month?”

“Exactly. Exactly,” she responded.

Yeesh.

Team Blackness also discussed Oklahoma City cop Daniel Holzclaw’s 263 year prison sentence, actress Julie Delpy’s apology, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ taking on Bernie Sanders and the liberal imagination.

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  1. 1.

    Felonius Monk

    Apparently, Stacy Dash has a brain even smaller that Steve Doocy. Hard to imagine, but looks like it’s true.

  5. 5.

    Monala

    Apparently, in her post-Clueless, pre-Fox News years, Stacey Dash did a number of movies, TV shows, and videos for BET. BET is having a field day throwing shade at her on Twitter.

  6. 6.

    Kathleen

    Roland Martin googled every African American magazine cover and TV appearance she ever made and called her out for her BS

  10. 10.

    Keith G

    @Kathleen: Roland Martin would be a poor choice for policing speech. He was suspended from CNN for Tweets that showed homohatred. As GLAAD noted at the time

    Martin’s tweets today advocating violence against gay people weren’t an accident — they are a part of a larger pattern for Martin. Anti-gay violence in America is a serious problem

    .

  13. 13.

    BruceFromOhio

    “shouldn’t be a Black History Month because there isn’t a white history month?”

    Every month is white fucking history month. Who are these people?

  14. 14.

    slag

    Sadly, Black History Month did very little to educate her, so maybe she’s proving her own point. Of course, by that logic, the Republican Party would itself serve as proof that we should entirely dismantle both our public and private education systems.

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    slag

    Sanders is not a radical by any traditional definition of the word: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/12/bernie-sanders-says-americans-back-his-agenda-and-hes-mostly-right/. I don’t care about the primaries myself, but it may not be a great idea to let the rancor get so high that it seeps into the general.

    And on the positive side of Oscar talk: http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2016/01/danny_devito_don_cheadle_and_mark_ruffalo_chime_in_on_oscarssowhite.html.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @slag:

    I’m just spitballing here, but I wonder if this might be a good time for a ribbon campaign. The winners from the previous year are pretty much contractually obligated to show up and present, so at least some of those people might like a way to visually demonstrate their support while not getting sued for breaking their contractual obligation to show up.

    People made fun of the AIDS ribbon, but it really did help focus attention and concern and got people who have a public image moving in the right direction.

  18. 18.

    Bartholomew

    This is not impressive: “Ta-Nehisi Coates’ taking on Bernie Sanders”

    It is striking and memorable though. I like to forget how the black community joined hands with puritan conservatives during the AIDS crisis, until I’m reminded.

    And then it becomes time to remind others. There is a reason it’s called Black Lives Matter instead of All Lives Matter.

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    neobux login

    Morgan Freeman’s comments in context were very different than those of Stacey Dash. It is true that the history of USA are absolutely black history — but that isn’t what can be found in current history books. History books are written to satisfy curriculum requirements in Texas and then distributed throughout the United States. When US History is taught without pandering to pressure groups who have been so biased as to referred to slavery as a form of “economic immigration,” then history is not being taught in the USA. Black History Month is a corrective measure.

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    Shantanu Saha

    I’d certainly support restricting the mentioning of white people in history class to one month out of the year.

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