SKB was so eloquent, so black...just so present during both of his speeches last night. I’d sit and listen to him read the specials at Red Lobster.

Aziz didn’t get a chance to speak last year either. He let his partner take the mic first and then got played off by the music lol

The first thing I saw Anika Noni Rose in was “The Good Wife”. She was so good at being an awful person I’m still having trouble warming up to her. So I guess kudos to her acting ability!

When they say black don’t crack, it is not a joke. She looks better than some 60 year olds.

I fell in love with Anika Noni Rose when I saw her in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, which was my Sunday night show. Jill Scott was amazing and I loved the location it was the first time I saw Botswana in such depth, the people, the culture I fell in love with it. She played Mma Ramotswe’s starched up secretary and…

92!? Holy shit! Looking great!

*Riz Ahmed, not Raz Ahmed.

Anika was raised right!

Other signs you are not ready for a Black friendship: You really want to ask about differences in sexual prowess of either gender or you really want to ask about hair or touch people’s hair. You’re in fetish land and nobody wants that around. If the question “Why do Black people ______” pops into your head, you’re…

“Would you trust a doctor who said they didn’t see or believe in cancer? Hell nah, you wouldn’t. Anybody who denies that an illness exists is immediately disqualified from treating said illness. So if you’re trying to be our white friend but ignore our blackness, how you gonna stand on our side when we actually have…

My best friend is a white dude and he introduced my uncles and cousins to craft beer at a cookout...He also gave my mom catfish he just caught at a lake with his family somewhere.

Agreed. Vern was brilliant and fantastic. Genevieve was just a super nice person.

I’ll be honest and say I loved Frank and most of his designs. I would pick Vern over everyone, because I loved everything he did. Frank and Genevieve we tied for second, and Doug was a distant third because I liked his more sane rooms. Doug did a show called Moving Up later and I will never forget the shaming he put…

I miss those types of shows on HGTV

I hated Frank’s country kitsch, but my friend pointed out that all the people who get Frank wind up loving final result. There’s definitely a market for him. But the only TS designer I’d want crossing my threshold is Genevive.

Exactly. Hildi’s rooms were entertaining to say the least, while Frank’s were just so sad; I get depressed just thinking about them. The worst part was that he was so sweet and earnest that you couldn’t even bitch him out about how much you hated his shitty decor. Getting a room from Frank was like getting underwear…

Sabrina Soto also had a great show called “high low” something, where she would first redo rooms for like 100s of dollars and then redo them again to look through same but with way less cash. It was amazing fun tv

Ugh. Frank and his fucking country chickens.

As crazy as some of her rooms were, I would still have preferred to see Hildi walking through my door than Frank. Everything he did bugged me, and why yes, I did google him to make sure he was still living so as not to speak ill of the deceased. He was famous for his “gingham n’ burlap, hand-painted watering can”…

Carter was the carpenter who took over after Ty left and man oh man was he hot.