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So even though Kelsey Grammer's Frasier is one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, I sat out the revival a couple years ago. Even though I was entertained by the first season of Sylvester Stallone's Tulsa King, I never saw the second. Not that avoiding every denizen of the list has been a sacrifice. I doubt I'd have lined up for whatever Dean Cain and Rob Schneider have coming up next regardless of their political leanings. I'm not a fan.

The same goes for two latest additions to the list: actor Nick Cannon and singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas of the group TLC. They are people my kids grew up idolizing, not me, and I don't feel any sense of personal loss at this week's news that they support the MAGA agenda.

Which isn't to say I don't feel something. Call it a profound sense of disappointment.

And it is, to be brutally candid, quite specifically because they are African Americans. That means they should know better. Yet like a small but growing number of black luminaries "Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and the anti-semite formerly known as Kanye " it is apparent that they simply do not. Or else, they just don't give a damn.

Either way, we are talking about a level of historical imbecility that beggars belief. And a gaping emptiness in the place where character ought to be.

If this were Maryland in the 1850s, these are the black people who would be standing by the side of the road saying, "Harriet went that-a-way, boss."

If this were Montgomery, Alabama in 1956, they'd be riding the bus.

It this were the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, they'd be in the gift shop.

Instead, it's 2026, and they're using their platforms and fame to cape for Donald Trump.

Lord, save me from Negroes like these.