According to you, she didn’t say if she tried to engage with him or not, but he is still wrong for not engaging with her? I see you and know where your ingrained assumptions are coming from whether you acknowledge them or not.

At no point in her own story did she describe trying to engage him. Going by her own story, she projected all sorts of thoughts onto him without ever saying anything to him at all. It is mighty entitled of her to expect him to engage her. I wonder why she had that expectation......

I am talking about my own lived experience in a majority white “liberal” city. Almost guaranteed a racist or, at the best, ignorant statement from a white stranger. 95% of the time and I am rounding down. Am I obligated to still put myself in the position to engage with them? Even when they have not bothered to engage…

What if you are not in the mood to deal with casual racism and ignorant statements, and 95% of the white people you come across have engaged in such talk? Are you still required to engage these people? It doesn’t appear Dunham said anything to him either so what is with the entitlement?

Is there a reason she didn’t speak to him. What is the expectation he speak and engage with her first? That seems really entitled. If she was that bothered, she could have engaged him in an conversation.

Thank you. I lose hope that a white person can actually, truly get it. Not play act like getting it, but truly get it and your comment shows you do.

He is an American. He doesn’t need to be grateful for his birthright. If you are not just trolling, I hope you think hard and deep why you think CK should be ‘grateful’ or has earned the lottery ‘living’ here.

Rihanna never dated him. Rihanna’s type is quite obvious and I don’t believe she has dated anyone else paired with her that doesn’t fit her type.

Yup. Anyone voting for trump is a racist/sexist or comfortable with racism/sexism. From my perspective as a woman of color, there is nothing nice about them.

I love Adele, but every single woman’s skin does not look like that. She is amazingly talented. It takes nothing away from her that her skin is bad.

I am very conflicted about the whole thing. I am still dragging my husband to see the movie. I have sat through too many movies about enslaved black people and white saviors not to support this. A white person would never have made this.

He owned her and could do anything to her if she refused. There can be no consent in that scenario even if she was an adult. But, she wasn’t. She was 14 years old (in Paris and away from her family) when she became pregnant the first time. He was a pedophile AND a rapist.

.......and she was 14/15 when she became pregnant the first time!

It is terrifying how he preyed on her. He will do it again.

Can you imagine if all these “compassionate” felt the same “compassion” for people with darker skin tones when they commit crimes?

Yes. I am sitting behind one right now.

Perfect. I am just going to link to this the next time this comes up and it will come up soon.

It cannot go beyond race, if the race of the woman factors into the treatment. You can’t extract race from how black women are treated. You just cannot. Your insistence on trying to do so is troubling. You refuse to get it.

That phrase bothered me. Did she read the report? They target areas with large black populations and she really thinks race is not a factor when it comes to how they treat sexual assault victims?

She was born black, she dared to be successful, and employs and has power to hire or refuse to hire white people. They have to find a reason to hate her.