Here’s a fresh angle on the Charlie Sheen saga: according to Natalie Hopkinson at The Root, Sheen’s “a new celebrity crackhead on the scene, and some folks can barely contain their glee.” Quoting a series of influential–and, yes, funny–black comics and stars like Floyd Mayweather, Tichina Arnold and Elon James White, Hopkinson concludes “it’s as if all of black Twitter and Facebook strained its collective neck to watch this 50-car pileup that is Charlie Sheen explode all over the mass media.”

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