What about when he went into the house to check the phone and everyone shut the hell up. The whole house filled with white people and not a peep.

There has always been a deep divide between Blacks in the US and abroad. Just look at Marcus Garvey’s experience in the United States, none of this is new or unique. There has always been mistrust and a refusal to understand each other, and it isn’t going to ever end.

Colonial powers love other people’s blacks. In the same way that American black folks in Europe get to be exciting novelties while African and Caribbean immigrants are treated like garbage in Europe, British black folks sometimes enjoy an elevated status in U.S. White America does what it does. In both cases white…

The person you’re replying to read that, so they added “if you are human” to their bad scientific argument.

They’re not interested in science, they’re interested in discrimination.

This is kinda why I don’t really like reading The Root. I’m not sure if these are the actual readers or trolls from other sites...either way it’s fucking disgusting.

Many of these people are not true Root commenters. I’ve been watching this thread all morning and I am ashamed that some of these comments are in the black, particularly the ones that are outright transphobic. I’m all for dialogue and discussion but some of these comments are disturbing and just fucking wrong.

Well, at least I know I can write off 75% of you asshole commenters as transphobic fuckwads.

I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, “In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science.” I’m a science teacher so I responded with this.

This is not a debate, but a war for basic rights. And unfortunately the right wing twists it to be a fight for them to persecute LGBTQ+*

What about intersex people, who are assigned a sex and gender at birth. Are they less than? JFC.

Fuck this shit, and fuck you, concern troll 2000. Jesus tomahawk weilding Christ.

Indeed. Just because someone may not have come up knowing the struggles of women doesn’t mean they’re not experiencing them now.

Yeah, it is super depressing that we still have so far to go

If there’s any need for evidence that feminism still has quite a ways to go to become truly intersectional, one should look no further than this comment section. TERFs abound, more interested in the oppression olympics than liberating one another.

Let’s all make a commitment in these comments to not engage the Dolezaltrolls yeh?

My wife and I had a similar conversation over breakfast. We’ve decided not to have children. Are we excluded as “real” women now, according to our friend? (Based on some of her ideas on homosexuality, I think the answer, sadly, would be yes.) What about women who can’t or don’t menstruate? What about women with…

The one woman in the group who defended the idea that trans women can never truly be women because of things like periods, pregnancies, abortions, etc. was an older black woman

I am so glad you wrote this today and will be passing this along promptly. Yesterday I was with a group of feminists, and I brought up the conversations I was having with my trans friends regarding Adichie’s words (which very much upset me). The one woman in the group who defended the idea that trans women can never…

Maiysha, as a Transgirl I have to thank you for this article. I came out 3 years ago knowing how often I am in danger because of who I am, but I know I am in no where in near as much danger as Transgirls of color. We all need allies and I have a tight group that protect me, dayto day. Every day I see another death…

Orwell’s ideas seem quaint in the face of things like this.