I truly didn't realize that judging people's hands was a thing until they started talking about Sanaa Lathan's back in the day. To this day, I still don't understand why anyone would take the time to care about someone's hands. IMO, as long as they are clean, who cares?

If those actions led to receiving a career that was off of the blood, sweat, and tears of other young Black women who'd spent half their lifetimes building their career only to have it all disintegrate because they wouldn't "bow down" to her and her equally trifling family, then I can surely hold said person (or…

Well, I guess there's no better time to say that:

I mention Jezebel because it has transformed itself into stan central on the heels of (rightfully) being called out for being tone-deaf when it comes to discussing Black women.

Considering that she's used the very ruthless tactics that her father did to establish her, I stand by what I say.

Same here, which is why I SMH whenever someone says that she should be celebrated for working her ass off to get where she is - as if she came by it honestly...

Long story short, they were booted out of the group after they stood up for themselves by requesting that they get separate management instead of rolling over and accepting the preferential treatment that she was getting from her father.

Precisely.

Of course.

I'm sure that Letoya and Latavia would disagree about this chick being any kind of feminist / womanist role model, no matter how hard Jezebel has been trying hard to make up for their history of tone-deaf regard to Black women with their futile attempt to make her one.

Tragic, isn't it?

Actually, I believe that this paper-bag privilege is a huge reason why folks (both Black and non-Black) have exalted her to a title that she, frankly, isn't deserving of. She makes them feel comfortable in a way that actual Black womanists never have and never will.

Sheer laziness is all that is.

If someone were to ask me 15 years ago if this chick would end up being a Lite-FM mainstay, I'd have been the first to laugh in their faces. Even though her catalog has been a mixed bag (mostly good, some mediocre), I have to hand it to her for maintaining enough relevancy to have her stuff play on those stations…

I love the fact that the default position on disliking this chick is they must be "white" - never mind the fact that this site's main reason for propping her is because she's remade herself into their likeness, therefore lulling them into accepting her in a way that they'd never do with an unapologetically <i>Black…

What you said.

The fact that she chooses to be willfully obtuse to the legitimate criticism at her - as well as her snide comments towards other blacktresses - is why I'm over this chick.

That's it in a nutshell. Lest any Black female actually believe that they have a place in feminism, 'discourse' like this will remind them that feminism isn't for, nor does it give a shit about, them.

Considering that feminists are the very assholes that had no problem with their savior's, Hillary's (as well as her idol Ferraro's), race-baiting to the point that they are outwardly salivating at the promise of her running for president in 2016, their half-witted opinions are irrelevant to any kind of gender-based…

This is essentially the same reaction that they had when the original movie opened at #1 (damn, I feel old typing that).