I know you’re not trolling and I’m aware of Irish indentured servitude (slavery by another name). But, they were not legally slaves in the US for long. What is interesting to me and other historians is the new narrative that there was a massive amount of whitefolks toiling in the fields next to black ones. This is…

I simply do not know why this isn’t on Gawker’s main page.

THISSSSS!

Holy shit!!!! Yassss!

Yep. And anyone who can transcend nationality and become “white” gets to be a real American!

BOOOOM!

The Irish transcended being Irish and became white, tho. But yeah, she’s not even Irish...

To distract us from the fact that 250,000 black Dominicans will be stripped of their citizenship in 2 days for the grand crime of being descended from Haitians. We will have a quarter million stateless black folk in the Western Hemisphere and why THIS isn’t the national story, I will never know. I talk about it on…

Yep.

I love when the topic of slavery is broached, pedants get on their smartypants and totally rock it! (No snark). But...ahem...you do realize I’m speaking to the notion of “blackness” as an American construct, right? So, during my rhetoric, I qualified it with “early 1800s Alabama” yada, yada...blood quantum codes like…

If you said, “I’m black” with skin as white as snow, you would be accepted as black by black folks. That’s how my culture works and that was most definitely how slavery worked. Black great-grandfather would be “got some black in them” until that person claimed it themselves. It’s like the difference between being…

I can’t speak to nationality, just racial caste in the United States.

Doesn’t matter what THEY think, tho, does it? That’s what being black means: your status is thrust upon you. If a person is lighter skinned and can hail a cab, they are “lucky” enough to transcend the mark of Cain. I use “would have been a slave” to differentiate, for instance, someone who would not have been clocked…

The Irish and British transports were enslaved in early American history. Didn’t work out. It’s not “forgotten” history. Ooh, fun fact: the colonizers TRIED to enslave the natives, first! On the isle of Antigua, that just led to genocide. So, Africans, it was!

You do realize that I am talking of “blackness” which is primarily an American construct?

I die!!! Sorry. I was type/ranting.

I wish TayTay and Katy Perry would bury the hatchet and do a face-melting duet about girl power and not needing no man.

Reposting, because fuck this noise:

Went to a wedding where the woman who caught the bouquet was switched with the bride after the blindfolded groom removed her garter. My 10 year old daughter had caught the bouquet. What should have been “Switcheroo— you just felt up a stranger!” became “Call Chris Hanson asap” before I could blink. I love cheesy, too,…

Me either. I refuse. Poor lady.