He was invited to the cookout during the Presidential campaign. My church in Texas rolled out the red carpet for him and I enjoyed his speech. I did not know much about him and really came to admire and respected him afterwards.
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No, I don’t think it’s a secret.
There’s a take amongst fairy tale scholars that tales that fall in the same category as “Beauty and the Beast” aren’t really supposed to be about women/Belle (at least in the original purposes/tellings of the tale) so much as it’s supposed to be about the Beast’s transformation and the concept of acceptable…
I had a really hard time discerning the ~point~ of this article. The title suggest that Improper Princesses are a problem, the conclusion just talks about how Beauty is different from the rest of them (which I don’t entirely agree with, having read a lot of IP books in my day). Is it just a literary critique and…
Counterpoint: Scientology is a dangerous creepy cult and deserves all the scorn it gets and more.
Appropriation is bullshit and should be called out, and I’m hardly inclined to defend someone like Dr. Luke or Katy Perry, but some of these recent copyright rulings are basically pushing the idea that someone can own very basic, simply music ideas and styles that aren’t at all creatively unique.
I’m actually really angry/frustrated when pregnancy is used as a plot point in media and abortion is never even hinted at. Especially when the woman is expressing dismay at the pregnancy. It’s so fucking unrealistic and weak as hell.
I’m aware I had more opportunities than most. I know colorism has far reaching effects within the black community. I simply brought up my experience because it felt relevant to the author’s story. I think my point still stands though that gatekeeping black culture does nobody any favors.
Both my parents were black and there hasn’t been a white person in my family tree with the exception of the white men who raped one or more of my ancestors when they claimed them as property.
No, Angela sweetheart, you’re Black. No other person, regardless of color or background, has any right to adjudge you any differently.
I have as a biracial black man had similar (though obviously not exactly the same) experiences with members of the black community. I have a black father and white mother. On multiple occasions I’ve been told that I either don’t “act black” or am the whitest black person they’ve ever met. It’s an incredibly hurtful…
How could someone say that bullshit to someone else? There is no one way to be black. You were raised by people who loved you. That’s all that matters.
Eh, it’s a No True Scotsman type situation. You can’t ‘really’ be black if you weren’t raised by black people in a black area.
I don’t think I get it from the article, but I wonder what the basis was for that conclusion. Because if it was the just about the way she spoke or her love of her white parents who raised and took care of her and her unwillingness to reject them, then she can fuck all the way off.
Interesting. The author appears to have looked at the last AVC review (which was midway through the 1st season) and just assumed that was when the 2nd season ended.
“Dear White People’s stellar second season wrapped up more than two years ago”
I think calling him a shitdouche is unkind - by all accounts he’s one of the friendlier members of 1D.
Just IMAGINE...casting tween and teen-appealing musical artists for a musical!
In my (admittedly jaded and bitter) head, this ending was perfect. And the reason I now look for different endings in rom-coms is partially because I am satisfied by this love story (and a few others) and don’t need to see it hashed out & watered down over and over by less interesting characters, writers, actors,…