Cool. Now, you know I didn’t invent the term, right? I simply showed you links about a thing you apparently were unaware of. Take it up with the recording industry, or even Essence Magazine.

He only has a point according to trash men who watch the news, see the way the tide is turning re: sexual assault being ignored, and is afraid of his own shit coming to light.

He doesn’t pass for R&B, his genre is “blue-eyed soul”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-eyed_soul

Kinda seems like you might want to do some rethinking, since you think normal adult behavior involves being the biggest asshole possible.

My god, the thirst.

Just dismiss their posts. That’s what they do to anything they don’t like, so...

I mean, how else is she supposed to answer questions about the race of her parents?

But I get it. It’s tough to walk it back after you attack someone with weird bullshit about reading comprehension (that was cute of you, though), then decide to cast them asking you to clarify your statement as them trying to start a fight. Like, when your starting point is GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,…

Nope! Wow, talk about reading comprehension failures...

Dismiss what comment? Did you mean to post this comment twice? Did you consider that Kinja might be barfing before you decided to blame me for some shit? Jesus, dude. As far as me providing receipts... I’m not the one making claims about what someone has said, that’s you. Do you not remember that far back?

LOL. Asking for clarification isn’t “telling you” anything about what your words meant, but how they were interpreted. Interesting that you react so ferociously to being asked to clarify yourself, though... that’s the mark of a terrible communicator.

I miss The Toast every damn day.

How did I take “Yeah, she is not going to be wearing a fro and throwing up a Black Power fist anytime soon, so people need to calm down with acting like it’s gonna be all Black Girl Magic, all the time with her ginger husband.” out of context? How did you intend your words to be received, if they weren’t intended to…

When you’re making the argument that if she’s not out in the streets with an afro and a Black Power fist, people need to shut up about her blackness... how else should one take that statement than pure gatekeeping?

So that’s the only way to be black? Yikes.

Can you actually cite any time she’s actually said the words you’re putting in her mouth? Like, link to an article, link to an interview. Otherwise this is just axe-grinding with no truth behind it.

omg yes, that’s it exactly.

Carolyn Hax usually does pretty well with her advice... but my fave right now is Mallory Ortberg, who’s the current Dear Prudie over at Slate.

He’s so great! Except for the part where I can’t even mention black people without him losing all of his shit... but he’s great! I’m definitely not low-key afraid of him at all! The best, really. I truly do not want to go hide myself in an imaginary commune in Massachusetts, where they make a lovely seafood stew that…

But by stating that she’s biracial, she’s proclaiming loudly that she’s made up of something more than just white. In general, us white folks don’t hear someone saying they’re biracial and go “Oh, she means she’s white! She’s one of us!”. We hear biracial or multiracial or whatever word a person uses to signify that…