New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrels should be driven from office.
In keeping with the promotion, the Sox players’ photos on the video board cast them as villains wearing black and eye patches.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
Beyond harsher criticism, sports media frames Black athletes differently — often naming them as villains, failures, antagonists or questioning their leadership when necessary.
Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
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Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
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