A biography for Jason Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“It should be obvious by now that Trump is not a crafty messenger or a particularly deep guy, he tells you exactly who he is and what he's going to do, assuming he's not lying, and he's a really bad liar.”
“My fear is that in our desire to remember George Floyd, the names of those who came before him will fade into history when they are just as important as he was.”
“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.”
“During the 2020 campaign, while I thought Biden had the best chance to beat Trump - and that was the number one goal - he was still selling this fantasy that the GOP would have some sort of post-Trump epiphany about their obstructionism and go back to 'normal.'”
“The American 'slave genre' of films has picked up some good and bad cliches over the years and, unfortunately, 'The Underground Railroad' seems to have picked up the worst of them.”
“Black America knows what real progress looks like, that's why a Black family dancing to Tag Team in the kitchen sells a lot more Geico insurance than yet another interracial couple centering a woke white fantasy.”
“There's always something special about being down with something before it goes mainstream.”
“You'd be amazed how many Black men from the 'hood to Harvard have heard 'Black men are trash' their whole lives, from within the Black community. Then those same voices turn around and blame these men for not wanting to get involved with collective action.”
“What will make the 'Bitter Root' film unique is that it is a Black-owned, Black-created storyline steeped in the history of the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration.”
“Sundown' is a horror comedy film that quite frankly deserves to be spun into a full movie. Just imagine 'Shaun of the Dead,' 'What We Do in Shadows' and 'Lovecraft Country' meet the Stacey Abrams for governor campaign in Georgia.”
“The tone of 'On My Block' has you going from bent-over laughter to shedding thug tears from scene to scene, and even I have to admit that 'Toxic Turner' may be the funniest campaign ad of the 2020 election cycle.”
“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.”
“In our highly-focused, micro-targeted, ultra-specific campaign environment of 2020, everyone is looking for that critical swing voter. Those mysterious voters who may tip the scales in favor of Vice President Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”
“Joe Biden has a spotty record with Black voters; as a U.S. senator, his crime bill put hundreds of thousands of Black people in jail.”
“There is a certain subset of African American sports announcers, anchors and analysts who are always ready to spring into action and give a Black face to 'sports' opinions held by racist white fans.”
“In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the mid-70s didn't sound like my ministry at all.”
“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.”
“History is a group project where, like in high school, one person usually does much of the work but someone else gets to do the class presentation.”
“Just how important have Medicaid Expansion voters become electorally? Voters fearing the loss of medical coverage are widely credited with the Democrats winning the House of Representatives in the 2018 mid-terms.”
“Blacula' and 'Scream Blacula Scream' are best viewed back to back - not because you're going to miss some critical plot, but because you have to mentally prepare yourself for how ridiculous these movies are.”