Could not agree more! I saw the picture and wrinkled my nose. My daughter asked why and I showed it to her. She had the same reaction. I think a lot of black people had that reaction. I explained to my daughter that I don't think it was intentional by anyone involved but there clearly weren't any black people in the…
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It’s a dumb photo and it go through the process because, I’m guessing, everyone involved in making the decision is white. It’s not overly offensive to me... though as the parent of a young girl.. if that were my daughter and I was on the set.. I’d quite politely say.. nope. That photo will not happen. It pays to have…
And the context is completely changed in this photo. Not sure why people always try to bring up “Well, what if a Black person did what a white person does!?”...the context fucking changes then. Then of course there are the people who say “Well it’s just a pose that photographers do”. Well, that photographer sure as…
All the kids are leaning on each other and standing relatively still in this photo, which conveys a complete different message. These girls are all in some type of tough girl stance. It’s intellectually dishonest to compare it to the photo in question.
I really think the white liberal feminist movement (liberals in general) is developing a blind spot to race. One of my white female feminist friends told me (a black man) I would never know how hard it is to be a female in corporate America. I had to laugh and say “Yeah because half the time corporate America won’t…
Honestly, what white people like this want more than anything is all of those perks but the right to claim being the underdog/victim/martyr.
What he's saying is that he wants to remove black Americans from any public view.
My CVS lists hair products for Black people as “Therapeutic Hair.” Because Black people’s hair doesn’t need products, it needs help, apparently. Maybe with enough therapy, it will settle down.
I was thinking the same thing. For years black people talking about these situations were put off as paranoid and conspiracy minded. Too angry to be rational, too upset to think clearly, because this could NEVER happen. The government would NEVER do such a thing. It’s too far fetched. Too manical. But here you have…
This person has no experience or standing to judge how Black people discuss colorism within our own community, period.
Well then it’s a good thing she didn’t say it was exclusively a Black issue then, isn’t it? Colorism is a Black issue, the fact that it also affects other non-white people, doesn’t make it any less an issue that affects Black people, especially in this particular context when we’re talking about a Black actress who…
It speaks to a total lack of self awareness on her part. I know she was heavily praised the last time she commented on race and Hollywood, so maybe she was fishing for complements or something. But as someone who has blatantly taken advantage of the colorism and nepotism that runs rampant in the entertainment…
This. I keep replying in threads suggesting that we need to use the “rapey” photo to tell people that one of my rapists looked remarkably similar to the supposedly “non-rapey” version of Labrie. Being a dweeby, bespectacled computer science nerd did not in any way stop him from raping me. While we can and should point…
I hear she was narrowly beat out by Zoe Saldana for the Nina Simone role.
Then there’s literally nothing she could have said that would have pleased you. Goodbye.
It’s not beyond my understanding, I just don’t think it’s appropriate to push my opinions out there.
I get the feeling you did not read the piece.
I worked this summer at Toronto's Pan Am Games. One of my coworkers was from TnT and he too said that black Americans were lazy. I wasn't shocked because I'd heard my African mother say the same thing. Where does that even come from? Do people forget that it's because FREE AFRICAN LABOUR that the USA is so rich today?…
People who can’t differentiate between race, ethnicity and nationality annoy me to no end. Also, they are typically the ones most vocal with inane theories on race, ethnicity and nationality.