Jason Johnson
Quotes by Jason Johnson
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What makes heroes special isn't the tech suits, magic formulas, radioactive spiders and enchanted capes, it's what's on the inside.
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Google 'Great White Hope and NBA' and you'll see a mayonnaise graveyard of overrated White stars that the NBA and entrenched sportswriters tried to lift up.
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Wonder Woman 1984's' major action scenes all fail to deliver; her pursuit of Maxwell Lord in an Egyptian caravan looks like a pre-production storyboard for the car chase scene in the 'Matrix Reloaded.'
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I had long predicted that Derek Chauvin was going to be found guilty and the reason why is because I felt like white supremacy in America occasionally has its sacrificial lambs.
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I don't want Breonna Taylor to become the Claudette Colvin of the Black Lives Matter era. I don't want Ahmaud Arbery to be a trivia question on 'Black Jeopardy 2035' or Sandra Bland to become a footnote in a 2028 dissertation about the beginnings of America's second Civil Rights movement.
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There are no undecided voters in 2020.
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Need someone to make an uninformed concern trolling attack on Colin Kaepernick and his movement against police brutality? You can always count on Stephen A. Smith to deliver.
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I will admit upfront that I have an inherent bias about 'Fuge State.' It's the story of a Black academic on his way to being a public intellectual on CNN and his artsy journalist wife who live in Atlanta, Georgia. It's essentially a 'Sliding Doors' version of my life, except I'd have a mortgage and be more afraid of COVID.
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With a combination of warped Christianity and White supremacy, enslavers created an absolutely bizarre notion of patrimony and fatherhood that was both inaccessible and absolutely destructive to the Black man in America.
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Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to the fame, fortune, even historical reverence associated with those great deeds, we're left by the wayside.
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What turned white women from the pejorative 53% to the blue wave of 2018? Brett Kavanaugh. Those hearings were so explosive, so horrific and so offensive to so many Americans, especially women, especially white women, that they voted in droves, and gave Democrats a 40-seat majority in the House of Representatives.
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Jack Harlow's 'What's Poppin' is a 2020 bop, but there's a lot of Whiteness to unpack when he felt the need to shout out John Stockton of the Utah Jazz, a player who retired when Harlow was 5.
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In a time of racial unrest for white America, images of interracial relationships are a proxy for racial progress as long as the race and gender dynamics don't disrupt whiteness.
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Yes, trash like 'Man of Steel' and 'Justice League' don't hold a candle to the humor, continuity and action of most Marvel Cinematic Universe films, but 'Wonder Woman 1984,' for all of its flaws, shouldn't be lumped in with those rubbish films.
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