I always think of the part in Bill Burr’s legendary Philly Rant where he told the crowd that the city built a statue of a fictional Rocky because they couldn’t tolerate Joe Frazier because he was Black.
Burr is one of my favorite comedians and always tells it like it is. 😂
Victor Wembanyama reads a Harry Potter book at a park.
“He’s the most brilliant player since Albert Einstein.” -media
Jaylen Brown became the youngest person in American history to lecture at Harvard, collaborated with MIT on the Bridge Program, which focuses on getting Black youth in Boston into STEM, became the youngest elected vice president of the NBA Players Association, speaks fluent Spanish, has a nonprofit called Boston Xchange inspired by Black Wall Street, whose goal is to generate $5 billion in additional generational wealth for marginalized communities, all while becoming Finals MVP. Also, his mother has a Ph.D.
“It’s a disease that he’s so smart and he’s not marketable.” - media
Some mediocre, insecure white people seem to believe that if you’re not mixed with white, you can’t be brilliant. To cope with that belief, they dismiss exceptional Black people as “arrogant” or invent some other negative narrative like affirmative action and DEI to cope better.
Obama on Trump:
If this whoever you were talking about was in front of me — which has happened a couple times — he don't talk like that because he knows better.
Source: ALL THE SMOKE