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Continue reading →: Colin Kaepernick and Nike Want You to Believe in SomethingEarlier this week former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted a black and white pic of his face along with the words, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” I was so happy when I realized it was Nike’s 30th anniversary campaign announcement. We’re talking immediate ear-to-ear…
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Continue reading →: Censorship vs. Foreign Meddling: Who Should Win in the Battle for Social Media?Ordinarily I disdain politics. Watching that pitiful reality show unfolding each day in the White House is like perpetual constipation, all useless poots and annoying belly pains. But what kind of journalist would I be if I ignored this week’s juicy happenings around Michael Cohen, long time Trump lawyer, who…
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Continue reading →: Omarosa, Why Don’t I Care about Your Book?I’d rather devote time to remembering Aretha Franklin’s legacy. The Queen of Soul passed this week at the age of 76 from pancreatic cancer, but instead I’m going to talk about someone I have no respect for. Someone I don’t think has contributed anything to society in any way, unless…
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Continue reading →: Lindsay Lohan: Saying #MeToo Makes Women Look Weak? Not a Good IdeaThere’s a certain level of emotional intelligence required to speak well publicly. You have to be aware of yourself, you should hopefully have deep empathy for others, and because of that you should be able to discern when not to speak, how to speak and on what topics. That’s not…
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Continue reading →: Life Imitates Art, Then Someone Falls from a Moving CarBy now we all know the power of the hashtag. No hashtag in particular, as any number of them can help someone go viral, start a civil rights movement, a dance craze, elevate political exposure, or shine a high beam on criminal misdeeds. The list of results is essentially endless.…
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Continue reading →: Kevin Durant, Please Teach Us Your Social Media TruthI’ve often thought the comments section of any editorial or social media post is an excellent mirror for the state of society as a whole. You have some good, some ugly, and some crazy. You see some reasoned arguments, some unreasonable ones, and some that scream here lies personal trauma;…
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Continue reading →: Whoopi Goldberg vs. Jeanine Pirro: How Not to Behave on Live TVSo, Whoopi Goldberg had a bit of a meltdown on The View this week. Fox News “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Jeanine Pirro appeared on the show on Thursday to promote her new book “Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.” As seems to be fairly typical…
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Continue reading →: Privacy Is No Longer a Thing. Ask #planebaeI can’t get away from these hashtags, y’all. If you haven’t heard the story of #planebae, let what you read here serve as “a digital-age cautionary tale about privacy, identity, ethics and consent.” Here’s what happened. Earlier this month two women on a plane switched seats so that one could…
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Continue reading →: You Could Be the Editor of Vogue and Still Become a HashtagThey’re stores I’ve heard more than once, more than twice even, these dodgy tales of #ridingwhileblack. Cabbies or Uber drivers driving a POC to some completely foreign location, and then being ordered out of their car, threatened with calls to the police, etc. – for no good reason. So, when…
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