Paris Dennard. *puts his name on the No-Wakanda-Fly list*

This MF...

Rachel Dolezal has already scratched up the inside of her thin ass lip with blue magic marker. We’re gonna need tighter security.

I’d watch this. I was a kid around this time, and remember the music pretty well.

I hope this leads to real change. They can’t keep pretending only black people get shot or shoot people. Reality has already crashed into them multiple times but the NRA is one hell of a drug.

I couldn’t help reading that as

I did not know I could love Black Panther more but knowing that its success has contributed to making this casting/film possible has made it even more beloved for me.

Years of attending music festivals taught me the truth about Sister Rosetta. The erasure is ghastly.

I have to be honest and say I didn’t know of her activism and this is the first i’m even hearing her name, but I do have a special regard for black folk who didn’t just talk the talk but left facts on the ground. I hope that legacy lasts a long time...RIP.

So, I’m white and grew up in the 1970s in a very rural, very white part of the Midwest. The only POC I ever met in my first decade was a Navajo in-law who came to visit the homestead. (He and his wife - my aunt - were the coolest people I’ve ever met).

Check your local library to see if they subscribe to Alexander Street Press. If so, download (for free, because library) the collection called ‘Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order.’ And if your local library doesn’t have it, then tell them to wise up and order it, because they will be…

“While it is true that not every single musician who ever played rock and roll was inspired by Rosetta Tharpe, it is also true that there is not a single rock musician playing in the year 2018 doing something that Rosetta Tharpe wasn’t doing 80 years ago.”

I’m a 46 southern white and Cherokee woman whose known of this gorgeous, strong, woman for years thanks to my parents who listed and believed music was color blind and taught me to see the world the same. She is a pioneer and innovator. As a woman I am proud. As music lover, I thank God for her talent. My husband and…

I would say the big difference was that it was representing a super technological fictional African super power. How could you restrict that to just one culture at random and make in theirs? Wakanda should belong to all of Africa.

My cats were snuggling me on the couch and ran into the bedroom closet and are now cowering in fear from that.

Yeah except no one yells racist shit at white people at hockey games. Get your head out of your ass man, if you don’t realize how racist this was then you need to re-evaluate yourself. And if you’ve shouted something worse than that, at a hockey game or anywhere else, then you’re a fucking giant asshole.

“Saying “basketball” - seriously? That’s considered racist now? It would be different if someone threw a banana at him. I guess if it’s a white guy we shout “baseball”, “lacrosse” or similar?

I honestly don’t know if you are being disingenuous or if you are an just an ignorant asshole. I also don’t know if the distinction really matters.

Thank you for showing the face of this jerk. I hope her employer’s HR department sees this and fires her racist ass!

Yes, when “basketball” is a stand-in for “you are black and therefore you should not be playing hockey.” It’s clearly intended to reference a racial stereotype, and deploying it to taunt and unsettle a black man makes it obviously racist as hell.