I always felt that so many movies/shows featured the “cartels” as the enemy because it’s the easiest way for white people to channel their hatred toward Mexicans without feeling bad about it. It’s the same reason why terrorists are the “bad guys” in every other action movie that doesn’t feature the cartels. “Hey,…

Women have been having babies while working since we had to throw rocks at fruit to get them out of trees to eat them.  She will be just fine.  I like seeing more women running for things it’s about time.  

Likewise, I bawled like baby Jesus when I heard the news. Sure, I was sad about Bowie and Prince and Leonard Cohen but Tony was something else. I’m still struggling to come to terms with it. It’s hard to reconcile his external joie de vivre with what was clearly inner turmoil. For all his sarcasm and cynicism his…

He’s still the only “celebrity” death that has ever affected me. I think we’ll be in dire need of smart, sardonic individuals who can both relate to us yet call us on our shit without the faintest sense of guilt. He was a refreshing breathe of air in an atmosphere saturated with the chattering class, sycophants and…

Especially when those unsuspecting people are women because they aren’t really people. /s

Maybe it was: “Hey you want to do a film where a girls father protects her from like this other old guy who is creeping on her? And it’s all about daughter-father relationships, how they’ve changed in the modern world, all that kind of stuff?”

No one ever talks about how often dating somebody who has mental illness can truly become of them or me scenario… Where you feel like you’re going to be destroyed if you stay, but you feel like you’re going to destroy them if you leave. It takes an enormous amount of strength and courage and love to be “selfish” enough…

As much as white people are fascinated with and love to touch black people’s hair, they sure spend a lot of time and energy banning it in schools and in the workplace.

I am a black woman and I can assure you that the answer is yes...on both counts.

Yes.

Every. Damn. Day. It is beyond common. 

I quite enjoyed him calling out the “Splinter Contingent”:

I’m being very friendly today but please don’t touch my hair.’”

You need to listen to it. Your ears need it. Not only is it refreshing to listen to Obama as a President that knows what he’s doing and understands what he’s talking about, compared to the bullshit coming out of Trump’s orifice. It’s a breath of fresh air to listen to a leader within the Democratic Party speak with…

1) He “digressed” so many times, it was beautiful. I couldn’t tell if he was speaking candidly or if he had planned those parts of his speech, but they were the most raw and real—when he rightfully claimed credit for employment numbers and his other accomplishments, when he rebuked the writer of the NYT op-ed, when he…

“I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”

That would be me and no I didn’t use that analogy for those assholes. I’m thinking that they’re giving the American public a warning, of their own subverting. But if we don’t get our heads out our asses then we’re moving into some dangerous terrority.

Thank you Monique for stating, for the record, that white identity politics play a huge role in his entire fiasco. 

Yes.

I read that piece and was like WTF is this cowardice?!?