Bruno is more Filipino than Puerto Rican. Our indigenous peoples, the Aeta, Ifugao, Tumadok, etc. are Black descendants of a more ancient people. After centuries of colonization, our indigenous peoples retreated to the mountains and others assimilated into life with the colonizers of the time (like the Chinese,…

That America in addition to being racist as fuck is colorist as fuck, which we already knew. I never can understand why (dumb) people think that white people and institutions don’t engage in colorism.

Seeing a black woman hate on Bruno Mars while using a Japanese handle that means “I love you” should be a textbook example of the word irony.

Bluegrass wouldn’t exist without the blues. If anyone tries to tell you that any form of American music that isn’t like, Native American folk music, doesn’t owe a significant debt to black musicians and culture then they are full of shit.

I think the Bruno Mars conversation is also due to the fact that he’s a easy target partly due to the fact that he is a person of color. The people who go on these long diatribes on him, seem to be silent when faced with post malone or Gerald ( G - Eazy) who are actual offenders, but shrug.

REALLY well put, Michael. Point 3 is something I’ve been thinking a lot about in this context: like, unless you’re exclusively making bluegrass music, you owe a huge amount of credit to black artists. That’s a damn FACT. So where does cultural appropriation start and stop?

Hahahaha, at first I thought it said “MORE LITTER” and I was like, “Hm, yeah, I can definitely see this bitch tossing empty chip bags out the window of her husband’s F-150 and thinking she’s making a statement.

Looks like “More Glitter” to me, but no doubt she’d rock a “More Hitler” one for sure. I’m sure you’ve just given one of those racists who hate-read this their next big etsy idea.

That she could reach in her closet and pull that hat out should be grounds for granting power of attorney to someone responsible.

If they had enough culture and creativity to produce anything cool then they wouldn’t need to steal from us.

These people don’t care about the truth, so the fact that they have no idea what they’re talking about doesn’t really bother me. What bothers me is the astronomical level of corny that they manage to achieve without even trying that hard? White people, is corniness natural to your race? Are you born with it? The first…

You know – this is a BlackWomenPayGap issue at the same time it’s a “Mo & her team need to negotiate better” issue. I don’t think you go straight to the nuclear option without inquiring at other networks that do comedy specials. Michelle Wolf was on HBO just recently; Margaret Cho was on Showtime. I’m wondering if…

She got offered a raw deal. I am not dropping Netflix because she walked away from a bad deal. She didn’t like and and didn’t take it. Asking people to boycott because you didn’t get paid should not be a negotiating tactic against a company that does not have to offer you a deal in the first place.

I was disappointed about all of this, because she hasn’t been in the spotlight, ever since she’s been blackballed, or accused Lee Daniels of blackballing her, and that’s kind of the last many of the public remembers from her lately.

This kind of behavior is why Hollywood, including her black friends in the industry like Lee Daniels, stopped working with Mo’Nique. She is an entitled, ignorant woman who consistently bites the hand that feeds her. Netflix was being generous with their offer, because there’s no way Mo’Nique fans in 2018 would bring…

Although great for us, I don’t see that happening. She’s been super cagey about the pregnancy and father so far, i don;t see her bringing the baby along for the publicity ride

I am super impressed at how she’s managed to keep her pregnancy so private. I actually wasn’t even sure she *was* pregnant until now.

Yes! Katherine is the best name! It’s solid and traditional, but has 50 billion nicknames/alternate spellings so you can totally make it match who you are! As a holder of said name, I use one version professionally, one socially, and one with my ride or die people. (In other words, it’s great for people who…

Kat Kaling. Great name. They are going to have so much fun together! After the baby starts sleeping and before she is in middle school.

She was called ignorant because she’s ignorant. If she had been treated a certain way because she’s a black woman that would be a different thing but it was clear the congressman was taking issue with the sheer idiocy of what she said.