How am I not in a position to speak to legal immigration, when I AM a legal immigrant? What I’m saying is that opportunities existed for me that don’t exist for people who need them far more than I do, and that’s bullshit.

Of course the type of weight loss depicted on that show is NOT healthy. To maintain weight loss, you need a total change of lifestyle and eating habits but you also have to do it progressively. And it has to be sustainable. That show makes a humiliating freak show out of these poor people and of course they’re going…

What is your point exactly? Did you scroll down and read the rest of my comments? My relationship is mine and the person I’m with completely embraces the fact that he’s with a non-white person. And vice-versa. It’s funny how I worry about white people giving me guff about being in a mixed relationship. The people on…

Brown parents can have white babies, too. They (biracial babies) don’t all come out the same shade. My pasty white son made with my light ass body with my dark ass husband is a perfect example. And yes, no one thinks he’s the father. My memories of all the “let’s have a baby” fuck sessions prove otherwise.

I don’t think of it in my day-to-day routine, but ten years ago when I first got together with my now-husband, my family had a shit fit. A year after that we moved out of state and had only one relative keep in touch after I made it clear I was sick of hearing the ugly remarks about “mixed babies” being less than…

As an biracial person, 100% of my relationships are interracial.

White liberals can't take a race joke. Everyone else is way more chilled about. Wilmore killed it btw that Stephen curry joke was pretty good with a zing

I’m not a guy and even as a woman and a feminist (small f, not militant, organised capital F Feminist), I want nothing to do with feminist activism because those same impossible standards and constant judgement and policing are applied to women as well and honestly? Fuck that shit. I have better things to do with my…

You know what the worst part is? As someone pointed out the last time this picture came up, his knife is totally clean. Which means he wasn’t the one who cut off the elephant’s tail.

You sound like a patronizing ass. Get over yourself.

Either way, all I read is whole lot of truth. I don’t think it’s hoity-toity but if that’s what someone else might think, meh, so be it.

The problem is not that Black people are cast in roles where their skin color is obscured. It is that they are cast predominantly or exclusively in roles where their skin color is obscured. Had Lupita Nyongo received the seven genre diverse movie offers using her real face she deserved after her Oscar (as JLaw or…

That does make a lot of sense to me. Thank you!

I wasn't raised in the US so a lot of cultural things are huh? wha? for me.

a) No. b) Nah. c) Nope.

But “good hair” in the context of this song doesn’t mean that kind of good hair. It means the kind of curly-not-kinky hair that is still seen by many black folk as superior to “regular” afro-textured black hair, what my aunty calls a “good grade of hair”. Like the kind of hair that Tatyana Ali or Jasmine Guy or the…

I’m with you on this one. It isn’t so much the fact that they are given these roles that are motion capture or that require a lot of makeup, it is that they aren’t given as many roles that just allow them to be black. In contrast to the white actors who seem to get a decent balance between those two types of roles.

I think the larger issues that make “recoloring” black actors more problematic is that there are relatively none or few in these films to whom such does not happen, while there are plenty of white actors who aren’t “recolored” in the same films. There’s Quill and many other white characters in Guardians; there are…

We have the same name. So that’s awesome. (My name is also Blair)

No a Becky does not have good hair. She is perceived to have good hair just because she is white. It could be thin and stringy like Rashida Jones and people will stay her hair “good” because it’s not Black hair.

Umm... Uncomfortable thing to admit but, I don’t know what all the Hairy Becky stuff is about. I’m kind of afraid to ask people since everyone seems to know and I don’t want to look like an idiot. Is it a food? Is it a place? Is it something like the sephora thing (which I’m reasonably sure is a place inhabited by…