I know hear and see more about Amara’s struggles with colorism than I do her music. I love how she continues to push her Afro-Latina-ness down every idiot’s throats.

Man, I’m so tired of getting co-opted with these shitty opinions from celebrities, and then having to exclaim that I don’t agree with said shitty opinions. I hope it is well established that Charlemange does not speak for all of us, but then something like this comes out and you literally FEEL the side eye being…

Were they like, rivals in law school or something? That’s all I got

The best part, for me at least, is that The Root is the only place on Gizmodo that I’m not in the greys, but I’ve been commenting on, say, Deadspin for literally years.

My last house, albeit a much more modest one than hers, had four bathrooms, with 2 and a half bedrooms.

My seven now eight year old hit a pretty hard wall with overcooked. It’s not fun to have to time things with someone that doesn’t really have tick reflexes. I played the first level of Lovers, and wished my daughter could play it with me. I’m not really sure it would work out

Kudos to anyone that read the entire Caps Lock Wall of Text. I got as far as “WALKBINCA” and I couldn’t understand what this word was supposed to be. Can I get some help here?

What?

I’m 6’3, have a 36 waist, and weigh 235.

I’ve never encountered am African immigrant that if wasn’t working towards having a higher level of education that I have, already had two or three degrees, and was working on helping people around them. Conversely, I’ve never met a Scandinavian or Russian immigrant that wasn’t either scrapping to get by, or was fuck…

Forgive me. I don’t see intent there, but a question on a behavior. That behavior is not necessarily widely practiced, and I wanted to point that out without going #notallricans.  

I won’t cap this for everyone in this realm, but whenever this comes up in conversation, the I find that the concept of blackness can only be related to USA blackness. On either side, there’s no real understanding of people from other nations having similar skin tones not having the same experiences.

Recognizing and accepting your African heritage doesn’t mean you pretend that you’re African American. Don’t parrot, imitate, appropriate or otherwise “act” African American. That shit is offensive to the African-American community, and stupid.

How about we don’t generalize boricuas, please? Colorism happens in a lot of places, for a lot of reasons. This article is about trying to bridge that gap.

Last summer, I walked into the carry out near my job. In it was a man in a Cheney State sweatshirt talking to a woman. I was about to compliment the dude on his apparel as I was walking to the counter, but then I heard what they were talking about. The guy, a teacher at a nearby school, was complaining about other…

And gets the shit kicked out of him. But, he doesn’t get the racism out of his system. AND it uses the black people to save him in a time of need.

Forgive the double post. I just got off the phone with a customer service person for a government agency. She answered the phone, “This is Ms. Williams.” I hope she didn’t catch me holding back the tears of laughter.

Hey man, WE ARE NOT A MONOLITH.

Ok so two things: who the fuck still wears throwback jerseys?

Your boss is Mr Forever? Is this Steve? GET YOUR LAZY BUTT BACK TO WORK