One other tip I think might be useful (it has been for me at least) - find podcasts that interview people who work at organizations where you think you might want to work. It’ll give you insight into what those people do & think about the industry in general and what their company is doing specifically, and as a…

Ladies and gentlemen, The Godfather of Cultural Appropriation:

The article starts with a simple premise, so we can start there: stop with the phony blaccent. It’s stupid.

Two black guys made out okay so that means racism isn’t real?

I just want white people to love us as much as they love to rebrand our shit.

I am of the belief that it’s not so much that black audiences don’t want white artists exploring a black sound: the issue is that white artists can be bad while employing black style and still be successful.

This. So much this. Bluetooth headset + drive time = hello, friend I never have time to talk with.

Agreed! Pressure for women to live up to dress according to certain norms, whether for “modesty” or “sexiness” are wrong and anti-feminist.

Oh, come on. So if some people, somewhere, are forced to do something, then I’m a part of their oppression if I choose to do that same thing of my own free will? I personally know women who want to wear hijab but whose families won’t let them — it’s not about what you wear, it’s about having choice. Not to belabor the…

The best part of the First Amendment is that YOU, idiot internet commenter, get absolutely ZERO say in how and why a person practices their religion. YOU are completely IRRELEVANT to anyone else’s religious practice. YOU can just go fuck right off. Bye Felicia.

It's all so recent. My still living grandmother was born before women had the right to vote and my mother was born before they desegregated lunch counters.

I'm in my thirties. My mother was the last graduating class of segregated schools in her city. When she got her first job she had to look in the colored only section. My mother is not even 70. This shit was not that long ago. Some people talk about this almost like it was a movie but this is some real painful shit.

This. Slaves may have been bought & sold by wealthy white landowners, but the virulent hatred of POC in this country most often seems to reside in the hearts of poor and working class whites. It wasn't rich people marching up 5th Ave. in NYC during the race riots of the Civil War, it was working-class whites who…

Of course we know exactly who perpetrated such heinous crimes. It was Them. Those terrible people, over There and back Then. It wasn't Us. It could never have been Us, because We don't do such things. By definition! If you find one of Us doing such things, it's obviously Them in disguise. After all, if it was Us, then…

While we're calling out perp's race, let's also mention the class of the lynchers: working class and poor whites. For them, lynching was a sick, violent form of street theater that highlighted the social privileges of whiteness—which, for poor white trash, was the only power they had . The rich, white 1% who owned…

"Lynching and the terror era shaped the geography, politics, economics and social characteristics of being black in America during the 20th century," Mr. Stevenson said, arguing that many participants in the great migration from the South should be thought of as refugees fleeing terrorism rather than people simply…

I clicked on the link and read the original Times piece. Though it's true that the exclusion of the perpetrators' race is strange, we all KNOW they were white. It's stranger then in contrast that they DID point out, individually for almost every lynching anecdote in the story, that the victim was black. We all KNOW…

You don't have to be Kurt Cobain, Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Andy Warhol, Leonardo Da Vinci, or ...