A Lot Of Celebrities Are Being Useless Right Now

The murder hornets (remember them?) clearly weren’t a compelling enough storyline for the latest saga in the spectacle that is life in the United States, which explains why, within the last week, amid a global pandemic that is disproportionately killing black and brown people, the country swiftly reverted to a familiar refrain: antiblack racism.

Protests erupted around the country after a video circulated showing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, left hand casually stuffed in his pocket, crushing George Floyd's neck with his knee, obstructing the man’s ability to breathe...