Really, because I personally would be approaching HR about it.

“Until he does some real foul shit...”

I was just thinking I have NEVER heard anyone who is Jewish say I forgive the Nazis. But I have heard “Never Forget” and “Never Again”!

Get bent.

I hope your ass gets banned, here, for that petty, bitchy attack.

Right? I don’t have time for all this nonsense. I perpetually late already. Let’s not add more time for things my hair was never meant to do in the first place. lol 

I can’t even be arsed to attempt to slick my edges. Fuck that shit! I’ve got better things to do and frankly all that slicking is unnecessary.

So all of this is much ado about respectability politics. And surprise, surprise it’s another Black man policing a Black female because she’s just not good (read: white) enough.

Good-they shouldn’t apologize for a kid looking like a kid. None of the other children in the ad had their hair gelled down. All of the kids looked like they’d just been scampering around outside.

If all the kids in the campaign had messy hair, then this isn’t a controversy. I’m not going to do the research to determine if that’s the case, though. I don’t care enough.

Anyone complaining/ writing about this child’s hair under the guise of “concern” needs to take a good, hard, and long look at their unconscious beliefs about natural black hair. This ridiculousness has gone off for too many days. Leave this child and her perfectly fine hair alone.

Ya’ll don’t think you might be overreacting a bit to an old white woman marveling at Beyonce’s follower count and wondering “What if?”.

Yeah, no, I cannot compute feeling “ire” at ever seeing a little girl who looks like this or having the nerve to compare this hairstyle—which looks like the girl just got out of soccer practice for fuck’s sake—to minstrel imagery.

This isn’t a new thing. I remember all the shit that Gabby Douglas got at the Olympics, mostly from older black women, for not having perfectly styled hair. Girl is doing a back flip on a piece of wood 4 inches wide and landing on one foot, who gives a fuck what her hair looks like?

That’s it! I’m boycotting the Emmy’s this year and burning my emmys! It’s the Tony’s from now on!

If you want to talk about context, then you need to re-read the article. I’m not comparing Mosley’s work to Baldwin’s, but I am comparing the context in which the word nigger was used. It was an indirect usage of the word, not a direct usage of the word. You and the person who complained to HR need to dial back your…

I’ve been told Australia is the Texas of the world. I’m from Texas so this seems plausible.

America isn’t the only country with guns. Or mentally unfit folks. Or violent video games. Or Rap. Or Heavy Metal music which, when played backwards, tells listeners to kill (oh, remember the 80s, when we were so naive!)

Pretty sure his point was that words are useless and that the things he listed as solutions are things we should be doing to combat the problem. 

Most of us black folks realize that even if a child’s mother and father are black, their child can be almost any color, from the palest white to the darkest black; that is just how genetics work. Why so many white people seem to not get this and think that people’s skin colors must always match, is beyond me.