Here’s some great advice if you’re traveling this holiday season. Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert showed viewers how to use an inch-thick pancake to hide one’s “sausage and eggs” from the prying eyes of airport security perverts.
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“For the first five years that I was writing for The New Yorker,” says a longtime contributor, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
“Given that black folks make art and market it within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, none of us can ignore the reality that any black person who wants to create a product with mass crossover appeal must do some serious soul-searching”
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