Thanks for this! 

God damn it all to Hell

How did this article attract so many pearl clutching Devil’s Advocates? *Sigh... 

Right? I feel like they picked the wrong headline because there is... SO much else going on that’s cringable!

“we don’t have to subject ourselves to folks who don’t treat us the way we deserve to be treated. We can leave any spaces and places that don’t currently serve us without apology and return when and if we decide to.”

This deserved far more stars. But instead, respectability politics won out.

Beautiful, like her💕

“What is Michael Harriot to do?”

I love me some Clarkisha Kent because she said all that needed to be.

No, contraire, you being unconscious (preferably knocked out by a frying pan) is a Gift to the Gods. Sleep on. 

Save calling a full grown woman a kid. You want to start an argument. I gave you leave to have your own beliefs. Just like I don’t disbelieve those caught up in R. Kelly’s sick behavior I also don’t disbelieve those who have stated they were abused by M.J. Our favs are not infallible. 

Watch the Bashir interview and you come away from it knowing he had unhealthy viewpoints on interacting with children. Also, not believing survivors of child molestation is not my lot in life. Do you. 

I still have so much shame built around my bipolar. This was beautiful. Happy Holidays and many more reular-degular days too. 

This is a case where the visible comments save for yours aren't much better than the greys. 

I don't want to believe it, but I'd be a liar if I didn't say I've thought about it. These are treacherous times. 

I came for the (clearly limited) fallout and I am disappoint! Lemme scuttle over to Harriet's piece, I might be convinced to buy a candlestick

Country interracial intertwinings cupcakes and uppercrust black folks, Oh My! 

Given what we now know, the gift seems highly inappropriate for a child (of all peoples, dammit Kanye)

Grace under pressure. Glad some good could come out of all the turmoil. Happy Holidays to all at the Root! 

If a dark skinned black woman married a white passing biracial husband then decided to pruduce a show about it with a bunch of pale faced offspring, TRUST that Barris would be one of the loudest out here on Twitter to say eradication of the black family was taking place. I just feel it.