Ice Blerd Ben
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I'm a writer with a BA in multimedia journalism and a Blerd who believes being a Black nerd is very cool. Coffee is my drug of choice and to squash all the rumors and gossip I"ve never dated Janet Jackson or Halle Berry at the same time.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, and the uncertain future of American History
To many African-Americans, the kind of racist flex being unleashed against the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist, and creator of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is by no means our first rodeo.
By Ice Blerd Ben4 years ago in The Swamp
'Passing': A Blerd's Eye View
Remember when Taylor Swift basically took the music world by storm with her amazing banjo-picking rendition of Earth Wind and Fire’s R&B classic September a little over three years ago, prompting many in the Black community to praise Swift as a musical genius, dubbing her an honorary queen of soul, and even extending to her a lifetime invitation to the “cookout”?
By Ice Blerd Ben4 years ago in Geeks
'Only Murders In The Building': A Blerds Eye View
I find the real mystery surrounding the Hulu Original, star-studded whodunit, Only Murders In The Building (2021), is its 100% Tomatometer critic rating (that’s right, 100%) and the overwhelmingly positive audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
By Ice Blerd Ben4 years ago in Geeks
Some Not-So-Fun Facts For Slavery Apologists
According to slavery apologists (whom I imagine as a willfully ignorant mob of tiki-torch whites whose questionable grasp of American history is most likely the result of numerous meth lab explosions, inbreeding, and being fed a steady diet of Fox News), Anthony Johnson, a Black man, was responsible for what would eventually become chattel slavery in America.
By Ice Blerd Ben4 years ago in The Swamp
