Yes, he is. Tho my first thought was, “He favors every man that Janet Jackson has married.”

In AAVE, the word “Whores” has the non-rhotic “r” removed. We don’t pronounce it. When written in eye-dialect, the silent “w” is superfluous, so it is left off. What’s left? My 11th grade IB language students got that on a formative assessment and didn’t have a problem with it. What’s yours?

Fred Savage is of an age that he and his brother’s name pops up when discussing the “open secret” Corey Feldman brought to light about Hollywood and child actors. He has openly defended the profession, saying that you’d just as likely find axe murderers and drug addicts in the real world as in the business, but he…

He’s an old pro. I’m thinking he knows how to protect himself.

Alden was SO GOOD in Hail Caesar! wasn’t he? Hope Opie Cunningham directs him to greatness in that Solo jawn.

You are making arguments against transgenderism. For real. What makes a person “Asian”? Genes and phenotype. The culture piece is moot. There are enough KAD chicks with the last named Goldfarb to support that. My kid is half Vietnamese, but check this: her epicanthic eye folds are from MY side of the family. Think:…

I disagree. And it’s funny because I’m sitting here peeved that my bougie male friend just loud talked us at an art gallery. Talmbout, “We’re the whitest black people I know.” I was PISSSSED. He was talking about what he supposed were are rarified tastes in pastimes, our speech (codeswitched to Standard English in…

What about a white-presenting child with some African ancestry? Rashida Jones? Who is the arbiter of who can claim what?

I’mma repeat: the phenomena is real and analogous. If a person being gendered is about phenotype, self-identity and how the world perceives them, so is what we call “race”. If a person can have a life-long desire to look and be perceived as someone else, to know with a bone-deep assuredness that how they are does not…

Yep.

I like it too. Everyone else is wrong. Collectively.

She spoke 500 languages. They made her that way.

Then how do you explain the countless young black or brown children who truly believed that they were or should be “white” but the world won’t just let them? Like, at 3, putting a towel on their heads for their long flowing locks. Staring at the mirror just KNOWING their nose and lip size were “wrong”? And some of…

No one said that spray tan was blackface. Color + Performance, darling. It’s mimicry, mockery, and a cherrypicked transmutation of perceived power. Or, as Paul Mooney says, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMX4R9Wz8ns

He goes, “it’s hard where you have Chloë and we need her sister, so you’re locked in a kind of casting just based on the people I know and want to work with.” And it reminds me of when a production making the film Man in the Moon cast all over the south for a young southern girl to play the lead. I auditioned. My…

She’s in the liminal space of being an “ethnic” white person. Like Greeks, swarthy Italians and anyone within a hard swim of Africa. The type of person that makes folks like Sharon Osbourne reach for the “rug seller” insult when they want to be bitchy.

If you believe that AG’s spray tan and Kim K’s photoshop browning are naturally garnered “tans”, go ‘head.

They did. And the movie made less than 20 million. I, for one, refused to see it in the theater.

Yep. The JENNERS are, but the Kardashians are not. They’re of European descent, but the “no matter how rich your daddy is, he’s still swarthy” kind. Trust and believe that Kim and Kourtney’s traipsing around with the 3rd gen Jackson boys and the plethora of fame-adjacent brothas they managed to pull pretty much made…

I think it’s appropriate. Both Kim K and Ariana Grande darken their skin to look more like a POC for the perceived social benefits. This is akin to white minstrels who wanted to indulge in the culture of blacks with a wink and nod that they were not actually black. Or, quite simply, “Rather to reign in hell than serve…