Were you born an obnoxious doche or did you just evolve into one?

*fart sound*

Shut up.

Yeah, the dude from Holland explaining the history and culture behind shit talking assholes is definitely racist. Did you even read the whole thing he said? Don't be a trashcan American, and if you aren't, don't act like one 

As that article points out, it’s a problem when applied to low-IQ (60-70, aka unsophisticated) and mentally ill people; as are all potential police interactions.

“According to Vulture, Netflix and DuVernay have now formally responded to the lawsuit, claiming the aforementioned dialogue, which was a stated opinion, in the award-winning miniseries is protected by the First Amendment and literary hyperbole.”

Brilliant writing. The headline mentions a lawsuit, the article is kind of about that, but then changes abruptly to her being mistaken for other directors,  which is in no way related to the lawsuit. Then, to top it off, mistaken identity is apparently racist now, even when everything said is complimentary.  Honest…

“I’ve now been congratulated by non-black folks in Hollywood 11 different times about my direction of Harriet and Queen and Slim,” DuVernay tweeted on Tuesday. “When I share that I didn’t direct those films, that they are made by black women directors who are not me? Nervous chuckles. Apologies. This place…”.

In…

My bullshit-o-meter is going through the roof right now.  Hollywood is stupid but this story is absolute bullshit.

C’mon man. It was ludicrous that it was even suggested and it was summarily dismissed immediately. 25 YEARS AGO. The only reason to bring it up at all is to stir up the pot and generate retroactive outrage for something that never went anywhere anyway. I can understand Root commenting on it (I mean once it’s out there…

I don’t believe a single word of this story.

The writer left out the part about this being 25 years ago and not for the most recent Harriet Tubman movie. 

I’m sorry but I just can’t believe this. Yeah I know Hollywood has whitewashed shit forever but there is no way in hell someone could be that fucking stupid. I knowing Julia Roberts if someone even suggested that to her they might get the shit beat out of them. I mean why Julia? Why not Meryl Streep?, Cher? Hell go…

BTW, I don’t believe the story.  Sounds like a game of telephone where by the end we get to Julie Roberts’ name being thrown around to play Tubman.  I don’t believe it.

THE ONE SPREADING THE LIE OR THE ONES WHO BELIEVE IT?

Look, if you’d have said Meryl Streep, I’d entertain the foolishness for a hot second before I’d burst out laughing, ‘cause that woman acts her ass off and then some.

Because non-black formerly British territory Caribbeans in the UK are extremely rare. Not even statistically significant. Thats the context. Hyper-classification? Literally the whole point of the post is that the simple term Black-British is sufficient, and avoids getting dragged into this seemingly bottomless and…

Why would you decontextualise its use in a British context? Caribbean, here, refers almost exclusive to countries that were once British West Indian territories, where African slaves were displaced to, specifically by the British, not all of the Americas.

This^

Angela, came to respectfully query and critique the provenance of this God-awful phrase Afro-Brit? Have been seeing it pop up on The Root over the last couple of years, and simply cannot trace its origin. 30 something years of inhabiting this black body in the UK and I have never heard a Black British person or a UK me…