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The members of the infamous Banana Boat crew have been a few of the most politically vocal major athletes of their…
No surprise. I have a mixed race friend who said that College Station is the only place he ever felt uncomfortable due to race.
It’d be ideal if they wouldn’t dredge this shit up while the parents/ close family of the murder victim are still alive and grieving but I’m sure the fact that I know people who knew Teresa and have seen how painful this is firsthand is a big part of my feelings. But then again I’m disgusted by FXs American Crime…
Allow me to complain about girl’s costumes too... my five-year-old daughter absolutely loves the cartoon Teen Titans Go. It is her favorite show by far. She’s constantly playing Teen Titans when she’s outside running around. She’s always Starfire, who is her favorite, I’m always Robin and my wife is always Raven. She…
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Viola Davis made history on Sunday evening as the first woman of color to ever win Outstanding Actress in a drama…
Oh hooray. The first Stonewall movie is about a fictional white gay male. This erases the BLACK trans woman who actually was the first to throw something (Marsha P. Johnson, if you’re wondering). It erases all the dykes who were being raped and arrested and who fought on the front lines of basically every important…
And Amandla is a 16 year old girl, so what is your point? Why do Kylie’s defenders always use her age as a defense for her doing something shitty? Especially when she has repeatedly been called out for cultural appropriation, and yet still learns absolutely nothing and continues to do it anyway. Why not continue to…
The difference is that the person that wrote that is a terrible human being.
Africa Fashion Week Nigeria began Saturday in Lagos, and already there are a clutch of runway clothes for which I’d…
I mostly just lurk, but occasionally talk about my work with pregnant teens in South Africa (http://youngmomsupport.co.za)
South Africa has many issues: but we DO have good laws that are not constantly changed and challenged. One is the ability for any pregnant person from the age of 12 to access abortion without…
There was nothing there. No marker. No memorial. The hospital had been massive, a campus. Its mission had been…
Gary Younge on “black-on-black crime”:
It’s no secret that Ava DuVernay’s Selma, very likely the most important American movie of 2014, also served as a…
“You immediately going to the “you are saying white girls can’t have big lips” reeks of this new found white victimhood and denial of privilege that seems to be running rampant”
Ok, I was just gonna kind of leave you to it, but fine... I don’t think anyone is saying THIS <<<- is racist, in and of itself. They are saying this is a race issue. Those are not the same thing, but I’m losing faith in your capacity to understand nuance. So here goes. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Culture is a meaning…
“And are you also assuming that these people still find full lips on a black person undesirable and worthy of mockery? Because you pretty much have to be assuming that to make any claim that this situation is racist.”
“you guys would be throwing out the same complaint...” That is coded. If you dont know, perhaps you just aren’t as educated on the subject. You clearly do not understand the hurtful history that dark skin and big lips and wide noses and curves has in this country. And fuller lips on white women being seen as a…
@digbette did a really good and thorough job in explaining why this is in part a race issue. Your coded language is troubling. You immediately going to the “you are saying white girls can’t have big lips” reeks of this new found white victimhood and denial of privilege that seems to be running rampant. Understand that…