I just cut and paste the conversation from my history in another comment thread started by catsinthegrass. Still in the greys. But her comments are all there.

So are you deleting posts that do not flatter your writing style? Where did BettyMamzelle's wonderful thread go?! She had some great points.

Deleting posts that don't agree with you is not helpful at all. We can't all agree one hundred percent of the time. Shutting down people because they wanted a well written and…

I agree, this article could have waited until they had input from women in South Africa. It's a total rush job and pretty unprofessional, even for a site like Jezebel.

Rape and HIV are the reality of many women in SA. Both have touched my family in many many ways, and we've had one loss of life so far (my 26 year old cousin). This copy paste job exploits the plight of South African women and exhibits no understanding of the role SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN PLAY IN THEIR OWN LIBERATION, let…

I'm personally loving the dress and am rolling my eyes b/c they loved it when Angelina Jolie wore something similar in black only I think Gabrielle Union is wearing it SO much better.

And beauty doesn't matter for black actresses...they don't get "put on" for being pretty.

Probably a little thing called pride. Also, it would be really hard to mammy her up the way they did to all of the black women in that heinous movie.

Black 41. I'm almost that old and all of my friends have skin like that. I have to constantly tell people at work that no, I am actually over 30 (but never admit how much over 30 b/c they seriously cannot tell).

WHY ISN'T SHE IN MORE THINGS?!?!

I for one am glad she wasn't one of the maids in THE HELP although I do respect that talents of Viola Davis and the actress who won the Oscar whose name escapes me.

I didn't think her ethnicity mattered so much. She's famous and beautiful so she appeared on some red carpet. We all swooned.

i don't think anyone is shocked to see a beautiful black woman, just a celebration of this particular woman's general perfection and divineness in this photo.

She's 41.

Jealous of her everything.

I agree.

For the record, I DON'T think West is betraying his race, or black women or his mother or anything like that. I don't think he takes his lyrics seriously and I don't think he has a record that indicates he's an asshole. I don't think it's up to me or anyone to police what West puts in his lyrics, but, for me, the fact…

Kim Kardashian is not Middle Eastern. Armenia is in the Caucasus. She's literally Caucasian. The definition of Middle East specifically excludes the Caucasus.

Kanye, for all his enlightenment, still has a lot of problems with color-ism and a fascination with owning and dominating white women as a proxy for black power. Not surprised he strays into casual anti-semitism as well.

It's a hair style...

I'm African American and I honestly HATE when white people are told that they can't speak out against racism. That is so ridiculous. The man who wrote the song "Strange Fruit" to raise awareness about lynching was white, should he have said nothing because lynching "didn't affect him personally?" Like half the Freedom…