True, very true. It depends for me. I know that there are people that see Noah as just a rip off of Gilgamesh and see it as a myth. If we're writing it as a myth though, even still how hard it is to cast Chiwetel Ejiofor as Noah or Noah's wife as Anika Noni Rose? Or Angela Basset? It's an artistic choice, yes, but the…

To me, it's the whole interpretation of the Bible that's wrong. It's an issue of basic geography. If people want to believe that a story (fable, myth, whatever you believe) that's based in the Middle East has no brown people at all, ever, as in they don't exist or only exist as villains, then they have some serious…

Very true. A friend of mine and I were discussing this the other day as well. The answer would have been to have cast Poc in the first place. Noah's wife could haven't been brown? On the flip side of things I'm always cautious with this type of casting. I understand how Hollywood works. You need a big name and enter…

This is what upsets me when people swear we shouldn't care about white people appropriating other cultures and all that melting pot B.S. This is where that rhetoric gets us. Of course, the many interpretations of the Bible are the biggest case of whitewashing that has ever occurred and probably will occur. Somehow in…

Holy shit! I didn't know that. Oh God now I have very conflicted feelings about him. And I was about to buy some Hedwig tickets for this summer. That is just a big fat WTF. Who went party and didn't immediately leave after seeing that? Why the fuck did they think that was even remotely a good idea?

High five! I keep my clothes until there's a hole I can't fix.

Personally, I'd rather they just not do it because I see the reasons behind the culture (big white t-shirts were usually bought in my neighborhood because they were dirt cheap and you could grow into/cut them/shrink them over time.) Or if they could acknowledge the history of it somehow. I'm not sure what would…

Is it bad that I hope the employee got fired? I mean this isn't a case of giving the wrong change or messing up an order this is genuinely hurting business and customers. Do not work those jobs if you have a very low level of tolerance for BS. Or if you really don't like people.

If I ever saw him I'd really want to be childish and use the "see food" method of making people uncomfortable at the dinner table I learned when I was 5. Mom's not there to chastise me and the dude gets freaked out. With my luck he'd get excited though.

It really is. She's been cast as their leader now and she gets most of the backlash. I don't think she imagined people would be as pissed or that it would cost her anything. It's like Kabala all over again. Where did all those bracelets go?

They're not exempt from blame but when people make the argument that "ZOMG they sold their people into slavery" it makes it seem as if they are wholly to blame for starting the slave trade. It makes it seem as if the Europeans wouldn't have taken slaves if the African tribes weren't just giving people away. It…

But OMG why wouldn't they know what adoption is!? It's the same thing everywhere. Adoption is a adoption right? I'm so exhausted from the idea that American culture is the only culture and thus the world must know it that I could sleep for days and still not have had any relief from it. Thank you for understanding…

You have no idea what racism is. I can only suggest that you pick up a book, take an AA studies class or something else to enlighten you. I'm exhausted from dealing with this on a daily basis and from talking to people like you who believe that blacks play a blame game. Reverse racism doesn't exist. Black people would…

And you know that I can't how? How do we know that Queen Elizabeth had six fucking fingers? Oral history bled into written history along with customs and traditions long held by the communities that stil exist today. Seriously? What kind of statement is that? How do we know ANYTHING about any history at all? Is all…

It IS cultural appropriation. Considering it's cute for Miley to visit Hip Hop culture and slutty for Rihanna to own her body. It's bullshit to take music created by african americans and give them absolutely no credit for what they created and use it for yourself. That is what artists like Elvis did. No matter how…

Yeah, it's easy to say "Hey that stuff happened thousands of years ago can we get over it now?" when you gain so much from the suffering of others past and present. Many white people wouldn't be where they are today without black blood sweat and tears. And we're supposed to hush and be quiet because it bothers white…

Except the idea of slavery was different to them than it was to the Europeans. Yes they sold and gave away slaves but it was in the context of their own cultural experiences. I'm sure if Europeans sat down and explained their type of slavery to them they would not have been as enthused to do business. In their culture…

That's not the point. When white people start accepting the burden of the cultures they appropriate then they can dance around outside with a native american headdress on their heads and a dashiki on their backs. Much of African American culture has arisen because during and after slavery our culture was lost…

His boundaries will get shrunk. Maybe not at first because they have to drive in his viewers but I suspect he'll get censored a month or so in. We're talking about a network that craps out the same types of million dollar shows each year and makes their money on advertising. That's just been my experience with their…

This was how I felt as well when I heard the news. I had to kind of roll my eyes at friends who were acting as if his persona would be allowed on a network late night talk show. We will not get the Colbert Report, or Strangers with Candy, or anything else that he has already done. Many of the things about him that…