You're welcome. Also, "woe?" Have I caused you great sorrow? Twas not my intention.

And that's why you, thankfully, aren't a professional photographer. I'm sure you're wonderful at fine art or whatever it is that you do, but this ain't your bag.

*also it is literally child's play to take thousands of photos a day. You can take a burst of fifty in a second with your iPhone by just not taking your finger off the pulse button. Professional photographers take lots of photos. It's what they do.

If a photographer is "spraying or praying" documentary style, news style, editorial, concert or otherwise, then they aren't very good and don't deserve Kanye's or anyone else's money.

Yes, because taking a bajillion photos indiscriminately, without any thought to composition or artististry is what any professional photographer aims to do. I'm sure they would also love to have their craft be compared to what *you* can do with an iPhone. Its their dream I tell ya! I'm sure that is exactly what…

This right here! I'm all about conversations and dialogue about race. HOWEVER, I don't do so well with my sweetie trying to talk to me before I've had my coffee in the morning so I just don't know how successful the conversation might be if I'm presented with the prospect of being the #1 Black People Ambassador™ befo…

Pressing charges? I am all for her using her audience and reach to put the trolls on blast by retweeting their handles publicly, but pressing charges? Cuz some one called you mean words of the cess pool of human interaction known as Twitter? No girl. A quick visit to an ESPN or Fox Sports comment board sadly reveals…

Oh yeah, that definitely explains it lol!

Wow. I've met people in childhood who had never been around POC's, but generally they were from very rural areas so it was understood and I had no problem answering questions and forgiving their ignorance since they couldn't help their surroundings. But its still just so strange to me, I guess because I can't…

In my daily life, I am surrounded by diversity and people who welcome it and most days I know that your hope will one day be realized. Its just stories like this, damn it makes it so much harder keep the hope alive :(

You know, I'm still waiting for pictures of these dudes (and their sister sorority members who it would seem were also quite involved on the bus) to be posted. Seems like this is the perfect example of when public shaming is apropos. A black kid gets shot for breathing and within 24 hours his entire school and legal…

The only people that are "shocked" that this is happening in 2015 are white people. The rest of us are like "eh, it's just another [insert day of the week]."

Except when you are on Twitter...that's the point.

That is quite literally how Twitter works. Hashtags are used to discover conversations, not only to promote a product or brand. There was a #RIPDeanSmith a couple of weeks ago, which allowed people to track the tweets in real time. Absolutely nothing wrong the hashtag or RIP in this instance, as it fits with the…

Sounds like you had shitty friends, doesn't mean all gays and transgendered persons think so lowly of kids and parenting. There are some, you know gay couples having families of their own you know who would most likely be very supportive your choices and have the good sense not to call you a breeder. No reason you…

Yeah, something struck me as a little #whitefeminist there as in, you blacks and gays wouldn't be were you are without us white feminists... I know that's wasn't her intent, but perhaps it would't have seemed so tone deaf to me if she weren't winning an award with in a category with absolutely zero nominees of color.

True, but the only reason it was at the end of the show was BECAUSE of Beyonce, they could have easily moved this to earlier in the show and closed another way.

Ha, I was told the same thing. It helped me take typing class pretty seriously.

I guess that's exactly the problem I have, that Bey would feel the need to shoehorn herself into the buzz around a work she had nothing to do with, completely overshadowing the brilliant work by those who DID have a part in it. Beyonce has any number of channels where she can "make a statement" and at the end of the…

Right, and aren't John Legend and Common big enough stars in their own right to say, "Hey, thanks Bey, we're so glad you want to be involved, but this is our girl Ledisi's moment to shine." In the end, Yonce did a respectable job, but I can only imagine the fireworks a Ledisi performance would have left us with. And…