This isn’t about you! Let it go!

Full disclosure: I worked on a project for a co partially owned by Bain. They are not known for being hands-off.

But to say that only black women should use certain products, and only white women should use other products, is not helping us understand each other better.

Like I said, you don’t get it. It’s the ERASURE of the black phenotype of 4C hair, the bread and butter of the business, and the implementation of colorism (look it up if you don’t know what that is).

You’re not relegated to Suave. This isn’t about white people using the product. It’s more like...the company is alienating their main customer base by not representing them in their advertisements. Like 95% of ads are all white people, if this company is mainly supported by black people then why the hell arent they…

No offense, but you don’t know WTF this argument is about. White women have always been able to use whatever product they want. The issue is this particular company wouldn’t exist today without massive support of unmixed black women with nappy hair. Like, high multi-millions of revenue because nobody else cared to…

While I still buy SheaMoisture products, people acting like the turning over of that stake (and the ROI drive) had nothing to do with them featuring of an apple cheeked blond child in their first ever ad haven’t spent much time in strategic consulting.

Here are the major classifications of non-straight hair.

And when they get on, they leave your ass for a White girl.” 

See there’s this thing they don’t seem to teach much in English lessons anymore. Connotation and denotation. Basically the commonly understood implied/inherent meaning or feeling of the word and the factual meaning of the word.

Hogging the left lane causing people to treat your like a rolling chicane? Fuck those people and their lane discipline.

At some point it hits a critical mass, I would say. I mean, I grew up with people in the Midwest who used “gay” as a term for stupid or lame. I tried talking some friends out of that in 7th grade and they looked at me like I was an alien. The idea that using that word for something like that was inherently putting…

You can’t have your MAGA Cake and not eat it too

The BoingBoing article on this story had a great comment that I’m not smart enough to paste here, but the commenter’s point was that since they only sell packets to juice machine owners, it’s really a $400 initiation fee to a juice subscription service.

Yeah, and how much juice can you get out of a bass without one of these:

“It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve Teslas!”

This would be more like if Keurig came with the following instructions:

This seems really fucking stupid until you walk through any grocery store coffee aisle and realize it’s 95% Keurig.

The device Evans spent three years laboring to invent is a $400 WiFi-enabled tabletop machine that squeezes juice ... out of a bag of Juicero-brand juice. It squeezes bags of juice. It is a juice press that squeezes the juice ... out of bags of juice. Bags ... with built-in spouts ... that are filled with juice. Juice…