“When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice. You was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all. It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word prison because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. Slavery is to blacks as the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 1, 2018

For reasons best known to himself, Donald Trump decided to post an easily disprovable lie on Twitter today that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled: Of course it hasn't doubled -- to the contrary, Trump's approval rating among black Americans has more than ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has now solidified his standing as Black America's leading sellout with comments regarding slavery so incomprehensibly stupid and offensive it is a wonder he is aware of his own ethnicity.  Speaking on Monday to department ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Throughout President Trump's campaign and especially during his transition and first several days in office, it ought to have been more than obvious that he knows absolutely nothing. Worse, he compensates for his staggering post-Bush level of intellectual laziness by bullshitting ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

(image via the Guardian) Donald Trump visited the Great Faith Ministries, a black church on the west side of Detroit this weekend, and was caught in perhaps the funniest pose of his presidential election campaign.  Leave aside the fact that the visit was about as genuine as his ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

If Donald Trump is legitimately attempting to reach out to African-American voters, he's doing a horrible job of it, which comes as no surprise. At rallies in North Carolina and Michigan late last week, Trump outlined a series of talking points, recited from dreaded teleprompters ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018