So once the electoral votes were called, Young, the editor in chief — or, perhaps, provocateur in chief — of the black-culture website Very Smart Brothas, started typing. Years before the blog gained any national traction, the Roots’ Questlove shouted out Very Smart Brothas to his sea of plugged-in Twitter followers. Now, however, he is the Grand Supreme Wizard of Nof---sistan.”Young’s sense of humor darts in and out of Very Smart Brothas’ posts. Filed under the headline “The First Perfunctory Race-Specific Entry,” the first real post about race came a few months into Very Smart Brothas, in 2008. This is how many readers have found Very Smart Brothas, a fact that neither Wright nor Young seems particularly comfortable with.

Source: Washington Post November 21, 2016 18:41 UTC