The Clownish Way to Doom a Generation

Bill Garrison November 2, 2020

By following Colin Kaepernick’s “they’re both the same, why vote” philosophy and skipping the 2016 election, progressives and Black abstainers opened the door for Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell to reshape the federal judiciary in a way that’s set to have dire consequences for Black people and progressives for the next 30 years.

F**K Peace

Bill Garrison June 1, 2020

What police and government officials have inadvertently done is create a situation whereby the most effective means for Black people to get a redress of grievances is a riot.

Time to Face the Classic Music

HipHopTaliban March 3, 2019

The days of writing Michael Jackson off as an amiable weirdo for whom pedophilia was beyond his gloved reach are coming to an end.

Stone Cold Colored People

Bill Garrison January 27, 2017

Former pro wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin decided to take his redneck gimmick into the real world and called his Black fans "colored people!"

The Most American President

Bill Garrison November 11, 2016

Donald will be the president who most embodies America. And we should have seen it coming.

Ball Out or Be Out

Bill Garrison September 12, 2016

Can Colin Kaepernick avoid the predictable and unfortunate consequences for athletes who speak out against injustice?

Profits of Pathology

Bill Garrison July 20, 2016

After making millions brazenly flaunting their gang affiliations and celebrating gun violence, The Game and Snoop Dogg want to be Black peacemakers with the blessings of the police chief and mayor.

Marsellus and the Mamba

Bill Garrison January 29, 2015

Hey Kobe, it was a great run — really it was. But it's just starting to get sad. As much as I hate to say it ... well, I think my business partner Marsellus Wallace said it best 20 years ago in Pulp Fiction:

Vincent, Jules & Charlie

Bill Garrison January 20, 2015

While it goes without saying that the terrorist attack was heinous and inexcusable, it shouldn’t have come as that much of a surprise to anyone, especially the editors and staff of Charlie Hebdo who apparently made a habit of tempting fate by antagonizing Islam’s extremely radical fringe elements with depictions of Muhammad that even a casual viewer would find distasteful.

The Buffalo Wild Wings Black Tax

Bill Garrison September 4, 2014

The journalist in me knew I shouldn't have let this slide last year. However, being well-versed in the art of challenging injustice, however minor or major, wherever I encounter it, I thought the issue had been sufficiently resolved.

We're all wrong on occasion.

Hey BET, we didn't forget!

HipHopTaliban June 23, 2014

BET, we haven't forgotten you popularizing this filth!

Tha Ticketmassa

Bill Garrison May 3, 2014

Injecting the history and imagery of the American slave trade into any racial debate is certain to to stoke certain passions, emotions and anger. The word “slavery” itself is often bandied about to put an exclamation point on any topic — even if the links may be tenuous, construed more of hyperbole and emotion than fact and circumstance.

The Clipper Plantation & The House Negro Association

Bill Garrison April 28, 2014

Essentially I just assume the average 80-year-old, rich, white American man harbors a certain amount of racial animus and belief in racial stereotypes, held back by a filter comprised of equal parts common sense and fear of societal repercussions.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has no such filter.

White Jesus? Really?

Bill Garrison January 26, 2014

Please pardon my naiveté, but being that it's 2014, I just erroneously assumed there were certain matters that we as a society had long-since laid to rest, chief among those being the notion of White Jesus.