He also seemed a bit more self aware and more inclined to calling out the garbage of the cult than Mark was.

Nippy seemed a lot more appalled by his actions in retrospect than Mark did.

There’s an interview with the filmmakers on Vox about how they ended up doing the doc; I guess Vicente was a friend of theirs and they finally came to a seminar right as he was getting out. When he came clean with them, they decided to film his journey.

I meant it as in, “my parent is X. Or grandparent is X.” She can’t make such a claim. Catch my drift. I say this as a biracial person who is adopted into a white family, so please don’t give me this crap.

The Native American headdress has particular cultural significance similar to military insignia, though. What Adele did was more like going to Texas and getting a giant blowout and a state flag shirt or going to California and dressing like a slob.

One thing I don’t get is the desire to figure out how she “really feels.” Who cares?

Even going with your numbers, as I wrote, “Being a college-educated white woman makes you slightly more likely to vote against Trump, but not that much more likely.”

I'm curious as to what your larger point is here. 

VERY telling. One thing that dusty misogynistic black men and dusty misogynistic white men have in common is shitting all over black women. My mentions are always full of a rainbow coalition of shitty men any time I post anything pro-black women. Refusing to engage with their identical dumb talking points and dismissin…

NPR has consistently excellent reporting and is still free. That’s where I direct people. But it is long form reporting which can be daunting in our day and age for people who have short attention spans.

Colorism does NOT go both ways. Darker skinned people experience colorism and racism. Lighter skinned people experience racism but not colorism. Again, I don't see how you can have an argument here not having any experience being Black in any shade.

You keep making this unsubstantiated comment about blackness in these replies. Is this a tk burner account?

Still not sure why you think this is your conversation to have.

so...

I read it as pointing out that even where rappers aren’t marrying white women, they are still marrying lighter-skinned black women. I don’t read it as saying those lighter-skinned black women aren’t really black, I read it as pointing out that even where rappers marry black women their choices still seem to be…

so you misread the article because she said that while they were black many weren’t lighter. She mentioned colorism and wasn’t even the one who originally named Kweli in the first place. 

All things considered, the original tweet is way besides the point, but I have to take a bit of issue with:

Sooo many conscious rappers are just misogynistic hoteps (and weirdly but I guess also not surprisingly, also anti-Semites) in disguise. The charade never lasts long for them.

I really used to like this dude as a rapper, but I just can’t with the whiny, misogynistic, incel, hotep bullshit anymore. And its also telling that not a single male rapper told him to have a stadium full of seats, buckle up, and put on his helmet, because he really needs to.

Everything about the Talib Kweli harassment meltdown is super disappointing. Now, I actually feel somewhat bad for Yvette Carnell who is by all accounts as much of a shady,reactionary grifter as Kweli has noted, but didn’t deserve to be harassed for 7 months.