I got her qualification of her initial assessment last night, and was assuaged by it, but that still doesn’t tamp down that visceral disgust I get at self-styled feminists coming for Beyonce for pandering to the male gaze while they do the exact. same. thing. Not a stan of Beyonce and her being black doesn’t make her…

I calmed down from reading further, but I still quibble (three years too late) that she even posited that nudity or eroticism is, on its face, simply for a man’s voyeuristic pleasure, thus anathema to her nascent notion of feminism.

Yet she criticized another woman for making the exact same choice. I don’t get it. How the heck is she getting a pass on her hypocrisy here?

There was so much of that in her response that I had to tell myself, “Stop being an English teacher right now, Pearl!”

“kind of”?

Show your pale white titties. Don’t come for a black woman for pandering to the male gaze before you do that, tho.

Exactly.

It’s going to be amusing to watch her try, tho.

Watching the folks annotate the lyrics on Rap Genius in real time is funny as hell! Folks typing like that Kermit on the typewriter meme! I’m dying! Some are going to say this is overkill, but Remy is rubbing salt into Nicky’s open, festering wounds by suggesting that Nicky has traitors around her spilling mad tea.…

I’ve always thought that people (wypipo) just didn’t SEE how white supremacy is simply a tacit agreement of all involved to systemically subjugate black people in a form of societal transmutation: brutalizing us actually makes you whiter.

I’m fully prepared for his acquittal. The charges are the only concession from the state that the cop is actually guilty. That’s the, “There. You happy?” they give before a judge or jury lets them get away with killing us.

Yep. And Yep.

This made my ENTIRE LIFE! Wish this wasn’t happening? WHERE??!! It NEEDED to happen! Remy Ma decimated Nicki in seven minutes. I was so shook that I immediately went to the pews of the Greater Missionary Church of Black Twitter and let the words of the congregation wash over me. The best? “I didn’t know that Meek…

“French” peasants? Don’t you know that the rule of American cinema is to make any European setting sound as vaguely British as possible?

AAAANNNND now I gotta go see that Beauty and the Beast movie. Didn’t think I was gonna do it, but that clip’s so nice! Damnit.

Hold your horse. My mom got married at 15, as did a lot of country girls. You got me up here sounding like Milo tonight, but of all the things to accuse Jefferson of, being sexually attracted to children hasn’t been proven. She was young and he owned her and there was no way that that relationship could ever be…

I’m right there with you. I lasted 17 days.

Drugs. Right when he was on the cusp of crossover success (from packing in historic theaters full of black women to mainstream recognition) he was asked how he planned on spending his birthday. This man answered, “being close to death as possible,” cheekily referencing his admitted love of cocaine. He was happily…

I’m so happy that the students helped make up for some of their spiteful compatriots’ words. I’ve seen how quick folks are to “other” people of color or immigrants in conjunction with criticism. It gives me pause and I even have to ask myself if I ever want to reach into that grabbag of xenophobia or bigotry if I…

Wow! See?!! The germ of the idea came from my own grandmother in Arkansas. What I’ll need to do is interview more folks that were interned and on the periphery of the camps. I’m not against LOVE! DURING DISTRESS stories as long as the dominant culture isn’t centered, as usual, whilst their ability to transcend culture…