She just looked at me and asked how many packs did it take to get my hair crocheted? I told her 8.

This happen to me this summer. I was at LaGuardia going through a security check for Houston. Followed every procedure..had to go through that weird body scan thing. Finally the white man on the other side goes “I have to pat you down..and also feel your hair.(I have large twists) The white man did seem uncomfortable…

Every. Time. Every. Time. I go through TSA they run their fingers through my locs. And feel all up around me. The last time I felt so violated I almost cried. I asked one time why I am constantly stopped because of my hair. The machine just picks up something. THEN FIX THE DAMN MACHINE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE A PROBLEM…

My other theory was she was going to tell him she was HIV positive; that might have been a better outcome.

Man Queen Sugar set me up and laid me out like vintage Mike Tyson. I thought Darla was going to tell Ralph her family was related to the Landry family. My heart sank when she hit Ralph with the Billie Jean. My mind went to what if Mrs SS93 told me my boys weren’t mine. I was a mess after that.

Mayne P, you took all the words right out my mouth. I watch Queen Sugar and feel it on a soul level. I connect with Nova so much I forget it’s just a character. Then to top it all off, I pretty much have a whole new bomb ass playlist because I download all the songs from each episode.

One of the things I love most about this show is the obvious love these black men have for the women in their lives AND each other. It is nice to see that they can be vulnerable and loving and still be seen as “men”. This show totally fills my heart with pride and hella tears.

There’s no reset once they start naming they kids whole states

You are on point. The Whites are holding the Whiteness Olympics on Mount Whiteskin for the Whiteway trophy. We’re just watching and suffering. They are outwhiting each other at every turn. You can rig votes? Okay, we can rig the whole election. Gerrymandering? Pfft. Let’s bring in a a foreign government. I’ll shoot a…

Make me wonder, how many of us were unknowingly considered the black “friend” in such situations, because we merely worked with/conversed with/let someone borrow a pen... I feel like I’m owed a gift basket or something.

Seeing as how kinja only allows me to star your brilliant comment only once, please allow me to present you with this star gif because you deserve all the stars that hang over the Pacific Northwest sky. Xièxiè.

This is apropos of little, but I’ll just add (it’s questionable if this actually “adds” anything) that I’ll always remember Ruben because the only vote I ever cast in American Idol was for him, on one occasion when he sang something so tremendous that I was moved to pick up the phone and dial that number for the only…

If I may quote Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October, “There is no going back..”

They left off the “I don’t see color” line.

Yes, because I’m interested in this Black best friend. This abrasive negro would very much like a dialogue with said colored man...

I am thinking the “black friend” version will be similar to the one Jourdon Anderson sent to his former enslaver Patrick Henry Anderson
 http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html

Yeah- the message I got from that was “I even let him onto property I own!”

As someone who went to Rutgers, I have spent a decent of time around New Brunswick, and still visit a few times a year. North Brunswick (which, irony of ironies is actually SOUTH of New Brunswick) is part of a ring of suburbs surrounding New Brunswick that are racist as fuck. It got to the point with Highland Park PD…

“Whoever is disrespecting that flag and the national anthem, that’s who I have a problem with,”