“Letting someone continue to break the law is not something cops do”.

And that, dear friend, was the night the lights went out in Georgia!

Is Doktur Hoo okay with you, Understimulated Subject Changer?

Rooo, I don’t know what it’s all about. I only know I said what I said and I meant every word. When she chose you as the proxy for her blood feud against me, I stepped to her directly (not as savvy as my Sensei so don’t know how to embed the comment). She has yet to reply. So weird she wouldn’t have replied to me in…

What is unreasonable? Where is the lie?

Whoa, calm down. My original post is saying that some Black folks want to like, learn to like, and grow to like White coded interests out of a desire to befriend the people associated with these things; AND others genuinely like these things. Reread my last paragraph.

You are much more succinct than I. Thank you for being great.

Okay, sis. Let’s try this another way. You like Matt Smith, so I’ll offer my own personal anecdote to reflect the opposite. I was one of maybe three Black girls in my classes. I have been the only Black bridesmaid in a wedding FOUR TIMES! I have been the Black face in a sea of Whiteness countless times. It happened…

No hang ups; people can like whatever they want. Just don’t immerse yourself in voluntary Whiteness and instead of being real about it, you point your finger at Black women as if it’s our fault we weren’t breaking our necks to convince you our culture is cool, too.

So because hanging out with White people in White spaces wasn’t possible for you in NJ (how?) no other Black person ever, not in the history of the world, let Weezer grow on him so he could keep up with ‘the cool kids’? Okay, cool.

Maybe we both just have our own experiences. I’m in my 30s, too. I just flexed generally because I could tell that wasn’t a Black person up there screaming, WHAT ABOUT CHICAGO in the middle of grown folks business. You’re right, kids will always tease kids about something. But ‘nerd stuff’ seems to be the only thing…

All I’m saying is one doesn’t become interested in anything in a vacuum. It’s not that these things aren’t traditionally Black, it’s that because they are traditionally *White*. Get Out worked as a movie because the premise was spot on: Black people are extremely vulnerable in predominantly White spaces which are not…

They are indeed proving the point. Thanks for checking on me. Your Comment Management Course has helped me grow a thicker skin from the days I’d come to you weepy and ready to quit earth because no one owns a mirror that can help them look themselves in the eye. I’m using my elbows around here now! Thank you, Sensei :)

Let’s just leave it at, Reagan was in office when I was born ;)

My argument:

No

Okay, so we’re at least on the same page now! My quote is about comfortability or even desiring to be with mostly White people. You can love Dr. Who, other Black people do, too. If you like Dr. Who, pumpkin spice lattes, uggs, golf, D&D, Nirvana, fermented Nordic cuisine, ‘conservative’ civic meetings, curling,…

Um, I *was* the Black kid who did well in school. I was in classes with only one or two other PoC, and had some White friends. My Black friends never made fun of me. Let me guess, you’re not Black. Otherwise you’d know the acting White thing is a vastly overplayed trope used by White people to imply that acting like…

You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m just interested in why you have it. Black people are allowed to like whatever we like, and whoever is there. My continued point is addressing the dating aspect the article is discussing. Saying Black girls didn’t like you is a disingenuous deflection if it is you who deliberately…

It comes from the same White male-centered mindset (I’m a Black woman, don’t know if this matters to you). Race and gender are not interchangeable in this (or barely any other) interactions. But look what happens if we try to fit it: a woman at a Con would have to deny being there to find nerdy men, start dating a…