She is. Her trinidadian mummy is just how some of us look because mixed blood.

Yes.

Lol at notShaolin.

Trinbagonians use ‘Spanish’ to mean ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Latino’. But! In Trinidad and Tobago, a Spanish person could be Latinx, part Venezuelan or similar, or Creole or lightskinned black of obvious mixed race of dubious origin. It’s an imprecise term with multiple meanings for trinis and never means Spanish from Spain…

Further, since digitallefty mentioned The Bey, I never hear black folk commenting or noticing how she and Rihanna and Halle Berry all had plastic surgery to increase their proximity to whiteness. Rhinoplasties all. When you search and compare their earlier pictures it’s glaringly obvs.

Ouch. And that cop used your phone so he had zero responsibility to chase paperwork or do actual policing.

Alicia has light skinned sorf hair privilege. India Arie came out same time and won zero grammies for a more creative album because she was too black and less marketable than Keys. Still salty.

What kind of twilight zone cognitive dissonance is the justice system operating under that people (cops) can kill civilians without cause, with impunity, and his dude gets nailed, however light the sentence?

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Yaw, this whole comment thread is da business, but the article was laugh out loud funny at several junctures. Joy.

Please! Tell me the rest of this story, lol for real laughing. Out. Loud.

Hahhahha! Oh that’s a good one.

Oh the humanity; what a wonderful way to keep saying his name.

This. Precisely this.

Big ups to AfroBella Patrice hitting the BigTime all the way from Trinidad. #bishopsgirls

London by way of Sudanese/Nigerian pops and Trinidadian mum. Basically, I’m Trini with extra adjectives.

We don’t realize the enormous indoctrinating influence of media informing conscious and unconscious bias: my humble opinion.

Connecticut, lower Fairfield county and white politeness was my introduction to the United States. Sixteen year old me was enthralled. Mummy said, they don’t actually like you, they’re just being polite.

Sign of the times, sadly, that my first reaction is, thank God she’s alive.

Or the many blunders of Sarah Silverman. Other people have been allowed to fail up. Can’t she?