This Week's Opening Thought: July 14, 2025

Trigger warning: brief mentions of sexual abuse, pedophilia, and human trafficking.

This week's opening thought: It is wild to me that after everything we've all collectively had to endure with y'all's president and his administration, not to mention the things they've done that have targeted the most impoverished and vulnerable communities in our country, that the one thing y'all's president's fanbase is angry with him about isn't his "big, beautiful bill," tariffs, constant warmongering, and the upcoming widespread harm to their lives, medical care access, and financial situations but the DAMN JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES.

Like, I'm not against outing pedophiles, abusers, and wealthy creatures who have engaged in assault and human trafficking. Far from it. Get 'em all, regardless of their political affiliations. But MAGA folx, y'all's president gaslighting y'all about the Epstein evidence and documentation we've all known has existed for some time is the one thing that was somehow the final straw? I mean, he's been gaslighting y'all MAGA folx for years now and doing harm to you and your families for 10 years, but this was somehow all that y'all could stand and y'couldn't stand no more? Y'all are burning your MAGA hats and posting TikTok diatribes with tears in your eyes over this situation when he's been dogwalkin' y'all for a decade and telling you to your face that you're better off with him as y'all's president when you weren't? And you've been defending y'all's president and his billionaire buddies for years because he told y'all to, even when it was obvious they were doing heinous things he was protecting them from having to atone for, but NOW you're enraged?

I ... don't even know how to begin to unpack that.

That's gotta be some damn good Kool-Aid for y'all to keep drinking it this long. What did he do, swap out the sugar for Sweet'n Low?

White supremacy is wild, y'all.

This Week's Opening Thought: June 9, 2025

This week’s opening thought: A gaggle of y’all are out here raging mad at Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel.

Sesame Street.

And Ms. Rachel.

And why are you raging mad?

Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel are modeling empathy, compassion, and humanity, which I hope you want your children, their primary audience, mind you, to understand and embrace.

But I guess a lot of y’all would rather pass hateful views and rhetoric on to your children in their formative years with the hopes of creating a bunch of future nazis and lynching parties who have no understanding of how beautiful and uplifting it is to be a loving and compassionate human being.

I know a whole lot of y’all gave up on pretending that you’re “on the right side of history” many moons ago, but damn, man. Gangbangin’ on Elmo and threatening the life of Ms. Rachel?

What side of history - Hell, of anything - is that?

What a bunch of dangerous and hateful lil’ weirdos y’all are.

This Week's Opening Thought: May 12, 2025

This week's opening thought: Two things that I can always rely on with people of pallor is that 1) they will always say/do the quiet part out loud, and 2) they will make up any narrative they can to "protect" their own.

Melanated refugees seeking asylum for safety reasons? Nope. Y'all's president placed an indefinite suspension on refugee resettlement in the U.S. because he insists that they're "eating the dogs and cats" or MS-13 or flooding in from the insane asylums and mental institutions and harming *cough* white *cough* U.S. Americans. Not true, but when has that stopped people of pallor in power?

So, no refugees are currently welcome in the U.S....except for select refugees of pallor, of course. Case in point: a plane full of fragile-ass pale South Afrikaners, descended from Dutch people who subjugated, enslaved, harmed, oppressed, and killed Black South Africans for a damn generation, landed in D.C. today and received a warm welcome.

Now you might be asking yourself, "Are they in danger?" followed by "Why are they getting an exemption when so many people in need aren't?" And, on the surface, that's a solid pair of questions. But if you're asking yourself those questions, you're likely a person of pallor who has somehow missed how white supremacy works, especially when people of pallor are scared that their power is slipping away in an ever-changing populace that ain't playin' their colonizer games anymore.

According to y'all's president, these South Afrikaners are "victims of unjust racial discrimination." Mind you, the average household of pallor in South Africa owns 20 times the wealth of the average Black household, according to the Review of Political Economy, an international academic journal, but they are definitely "victims of unjust racial discrimination." You see, South Africa passed a land law earlier this year that aims to make it easier for the state to expropriate land in the public interest. Although no land has been seized by South Africa's government, the South Afrikaners are freaking out and in pure victim mode, mainly because they "own" a whole lot of stolen land they've "inherited" from their crappy ancestors, people who had no right to it in the first place. Hence y'all's president, likely at the prompting of Elon Musk but also because he sees dollar signs and pallor-derived generational wealth, making a large, concerted effort to resettle wealthy South Afrikaners in the United States.

So let's take a moment to break this down, shall we?

Black South Africans who have a right to their land are the villains because they want to take steps to expropriate their land. Not all of it, mind you, but probably enough to take care of Black South Africans and narrow the wealth and ownership gaps. And these dusty South Afrikaners are "resilient", "victims," and "oppressed."

It's enough to make you want to take a damn nap.

Pallor "protecting" pallor.

So predictable and weak.

This Week's Opening Thought: May 5, 2025

This week's opening thought: Shiloh Hendrix went viral for calling a 5-year-old Black boy with autism the N-word. After being recorded last week apparently admitting that she had hurled the racist slur at a 5-year-old Black child in a park and getting rightfully dragged and dogwalked online, Shiloh's racist ass started a crowdfunding campaign on the MAGA-friendly crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo. On the crowdfunding site, Shiloh said she was trying to raise $1 million to deal with what she calls “great turmoil” in her life following the incident. Her plea for help from the top of her crowdfunding page:

"My name is Shiloh and I have been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18-month old son's diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was. Another man, who we recently found out has had a history with law enforcement, proceeded to record me and follow me to my car. He then posted these videos online which has caused my family, and myself, great turmoil. My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed."

First things first, no one doxxed this woman. That's a lie. Her whole recollection of the events is a lie, but you likely knew it was when you read the blurb. But guess what? Lying means nothing when you're a person of pallor, a race with a culture of wading in the waters of a never-ending victim complex. So, "poor" Shiloh screamed out for help from her fellow white supremacists to "relocate for her and her family's safety." And guess what?

As of Monday afternoon, Shiloh's crowdfunding page showed her as having raised $680,427, because, as many of them have alluded to after donating money to her campaign, "She did nothing wrong," and "they have to protect their own!" But here's the kicker, y'all: SHE'S ENGAGED TO A BLACK MAN.

Yep. Out here just callin' people's babies the N-word and takin' MAGA money while marryin' into the very culture she hates.

You can't make this sh-- up, y'all.

Y'all are a whole mess, people of pallor. A whole mess and a manipulative, unrepentant threat to everyone, including other people of pallor.

This Week's Opening Thought: March 31, 2025

This week’s opening thought: It always amuses me when I call people of pallor in or out for their white supremacist nonsense, and they tell me that I’ve “disappointed them” or that they “thought I was different than the others.”

😂

Oh, you sad, silly, naive, easily sunburned child.

You thought my closet of novelty t-shirts and my wealth of Golden Girls, comic books, and pop culture knowledge and references meant I was “one of the good ones” who would “cherish your comfort,” didn’t you?

🤣

Whew, chile! You wild! Stop making me laugh so hard! You gon’ make me spill my pampelmousse LaCroix!

Y’all really be out here thinking there’s only two kinds of Black people: the ones that make you feel like you’re safe from discomfort or accountability and every other Black person.

Sheesh.

Don't let the Breakfast at Tiffany’s tees and my love for Bea Arthur and Wonder Woman fool you. I am still Black. Blackity-BLACK-BLACK-BLACK. And I’m a Black man from Detroit, dude. And not one of them suburbs outside of Detroit that loves to claim the name - I’m talkin’ about DETROIT Detroit. I am so not the one.

Just because I’m a chill-ass magical f—-g unicorn with an eclectic palate and splendid personality doesn’t mean I’m a “safe” Black person for people of pallor to be toxic around. You can and will get impaled with my horn if and when you spout off with some of that white supremacist nonsense that shows your unwillingness to evolve, learn, grow, and stop harming Black bodies.

And I’m not the only one ready to check you.

The overwhelming majority of Black people don’t fit into your “safety” criteria or your stereotype box. We can like and enjoy what you consider “white hobbies and interests” and still be Black as hell and not interested in your comfort. And we do it all with style and seasoning.

“I’m disappointed?”

😂

“I thought you were different?”

🤣

That white supremacy be havin’ y’all out here judging every Black book by its cover, huh? Better quit doing that before you catch some figurative or literal hands!

[Image description: A selfie-style picture of Pharoah going on a walk in his neighborhood. He is wearing pink headphones and a Breakfast at Tiffany’s t-shirt. He smirks at the viewer while holding the two-finger salute with his left hand.]

Image description: A selfie-style picture of Pharoah going on a walk in his neighborhood. He is wearing pink headphones and a Breakfast at Tiffany’s t-shirt. He smirks at the viewer while holding the two-finger salute with his left hand.