i try not to listen to the breakfast club cuz Charlemagne gets on my last nerve but i listened to this whole episode yesterday. the ignorance was astounding. Amara was really trying to educate these fools and they were laughing it off. her points were valid: colorism is a huge issue in the latin american community and…
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actually that was deeply satisfying.
perfectly fine. i just don’t get the need to comment. no one said you can’t educate yourself on who an upcoming musician/artist is. just don’t be flaunting your ignorance like its some kind of badge of honor.
and?? there’s google. the point is don’t come to an article about a specific person and pull a mariah when no one called you here. you don’t know her? fine. move along.
oh man this really upsets me. i love a good three bean salad.
Diana shout out!! yes! I love her work, but it does make me sad. like...I get excited when i see her name but then realize i’m in for a hard crash. keep em coming!
i’m glad your mom is ok and i hope she’s finally getting the medical attention she needs from these “professionals”. on a less serious level, my mother was finally diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after years of going to her primary physician with constant infections and illnesses. she begged for a year to be…
i am THAT person and have no problem with it.
nah..it still has its uses by the state as another means of oppression...
man...these hastags are really triggering you aren’t they??
thank you for this very important update. love the follow through, guys.
that post needs to be framed and used as an example of white feminism. fucking spot on. solidarity really is for white women.
this is some depressing shit we women go through...but its on another level when the men you gotta share a workplace with can’t even be half as professional as you. we have to be the calm ones, the ones that have more understanding of why our colleagues/bosses can’t not make that sexual joke or keep their fucking…
i kinda get that feeling too. its like they have some kind of urge or desire to make everything theirs. when communities of color establish a thriving area where they feel comfortable, a spidey sense goes off in white people to just fuck shit up. thats whats happening in boyle heights right now. there’s an anti…
And then people wonder why we live in a world of bubbles sectioned off from each other, each entirely sure of their 100% rightness while everyone else is 100% evil and wrong.
i don’t wanna upset you...so don’t watch this video. that bish just said ancestry.com told her she’s black, so she’s black. no appropriatin’ here! i hate life a little for having to listen to her talk
they treat black and brown culture like its an “aesthetic” to be put on. its ridiculous.
“If someone wants to do something they should just do it, as long as they’re happy with it,” she said, rounding out her discussion on appropriation. “If you’re not happy with it then don’t do it.