As a bartender, I really don’t have time to watch your drink for you. I’m working and I am distracted, I can’t be a reliable drink babysitter for you.

A friend shared the post this morning and while commend these women I wish the post didn’t have such a, I don’t know, pat on the back nature to it. Something about the the fact that THEY chose to post about it rather then the woman who this happened to in conjunction with the picture makes the whole thing hit me…

I don’t think she was an actual baby.

I’m glad she believed a stranger instead of thinking “that’s my best friend, he would never do that”.

Truth. Faux depth or not, I hope Brit is feeling every ounce of this bit of wisdom and is finding all the acceptance within herself.

I’m confused because this was posted by a celebrity who has lived almost her entire life under the ‘spectatorial gaze’ and by posting this on her social media she continues to invite the ‘spectatorial gaze.’

Amen to wisdom in whichever form it comes.

I’m against all exceptions to abortion bans.

I’m going to assume it was a one-time thing, and she only gave it to the 4 month old because she was trying to kill her.

If, as Johnson says, we shouldn’t judge a performance on physical likeness, then why couldn’t Saldana have embodied Nina Simone without the cartoonish makeup?

She still isn’t African-American, whether you want to quibble with Pueto Rico being America or not. She is an Afro-Latina it is different to being African-American.

But I don’t think the people with African roots from either place consider themselves African American. I have both Afro Puerto Rican and Afro Dominican friends who don’t consider themselves African American despite being born in the US. Although she might, but I doubt it. I have heard her identify with her…

I think she's Dominican-American and Puerto Rican- American. She's not African-American.

My question is exactly the opposite: How is this not black face ? Prosthetic nose and skin darkening on a mixed race ? I know that some people in the Us identify as black when they are fairly light skinned for historical reason, but light skinned people/mixed race have privileges as well, even if they identify as…

You are mistaking “dark enough” with “Black enough”. The former deals with colorism. I’m a light skinned Black woman with 2 Black parents. I’m plenty Black. BUT I also recognize that I have certain privileges my darker sisters do not have.

Because money, silly! Studios don’t care about a family’s feelings.