Funny how negative black representation is apparently black people’s fault despite the production, promotion and distribution being done primarily by white people. And white people often being the target audience.

Don’t you think it’s sad when you’re a grown adult and lack the ability to differentiate between fact and fiction? Dozens of people gave their personal accounts of what it was like to have grown up in the ‘hood or in the projects, but then you respond with “B-b-but but the music! You guys are supposed to be criminals…

Public Enemy and Iron Maiden? Have a star.

As a kid I lived in the South Bronx but went to school in Van Cordlandt and Riverdale because my mom considered schools in those neighborhoods to be better than the ones in our district. This was during the 70's and 80's. I was constantly given shit for “talking white” in my block. I have siblings that went through…

Same here! I grew up in the hood, but when I tell people I’ve had a calm, and rather sheltered, and middle class lifestyle, they give me all kinds of disbelieving looks. My mom might have been poor but all 10 of her sisters and brothers were middle class, so I grew up middle class kinda by osmosis. I was supported and…

Good for her from the perspective of fighting colorism, especially given that Wakanda is meant to be an untouched, thoroughly sub-Saharan country. She would have been visibly out of place.

This is one of my biggest rage-inducers (although I have so many, nowadays). Pretty much every “pathology” of the black community is present in “mainstream” America and is just a part of American culture. Lest we forget, white folks elected 2 of the stupidest presidents ever, primarily on “want to have a beer with…

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I love this tagline of yours: “They don’t pay me to be your black people whisperer.” :)