I wish I could articulate how......

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Actually the numbers suggest that in their 20s black women are least likely to be married......but once in their thirties, their numbers are up there with the other women.

Where did you get the idea that she thinks Beyoncé is her friend?

I think it is so interesting that you didn’t know what she meant, like at all, but you just filled in the blanks with the explanation that would apply according the dominant culture. Thinking we are the standard and that our explanation is “the explanation” is not a luxury POC have. We know about the dominant culture,…

It was not a compliment. You would have to know about what “good hair” means when it is said in the black community.

I think wear her skin over my skin means skin bleaching or lighter makeup, wearing her hair means a weave, etc.......

I guess if the political context isn’t centered around whiteness, it lacks credibility.........

How could Beyoncé have known that Rachel Roy would out herself as Becky with the “good hair”

Lies. Aaliyah, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Debbie Allen, Lonetta McKee, Tracy Ellis Ross, Jasmine Guy, Mya, Beyoncé, Esperanza Spalding, Jurnee Smollett, Janet Jackson and list goes on and on of light skinned black entertainers who are loved and applauded for their talent, by black people and everybody else. Nobody is…

Say it again