...and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why unions were invented.

If a guy can lift 600lbs he can move a young adult without breaking a sweat or physical violence.

This conflates issues that many black activists see as separate, and I’m coming around to their line of thinking.

another victory for Team Dog.

“Will Iggy Azalea ever have a good rap verse?”

Modern Family, Black*ish, Empire and Arrow come to mind. :) Also The Voice, Chicago Fire, Survivor, Criminal Minds..

I was gonna respond but then I was like...

I don’t think we forgot her at all. I think the media gleefully went out of its way to FINALLY tear down the last relevant Jackson. I’d have to find it, but the head honky in charge finally admitted 10 years later that the outrage was completely manufactured and he didn’t give even 1/128th of a mountain-dwelling fuck.…

NO. there’s actually a great comic by a Latino artist that explains it, but basically:

Things I hate to admit (journalist here):

What about India and Mexico (to pick only two countries) in which few people are ‘pure’ anything and yet darker shades are treated vastly worse than lighter shades? I don’t think it will be enough for there to be very few ‘pure’ whites left; the boundaries will just shift. And the point where everyone looks identical…

And I’m tired of people acting like every criticism of what someone does or says is a call for hatred and demonization. Accusing people of hatred and/or outrage is often nothing more than a new-age form of labeling someone with hysteria. Where is the call to hate Damon in this? Where is the calling of him a demon who…

I don’t think this has been about what he said - it’s about the fact that a white guy interrupted a black woman to explain why diversity was important and is now taking credit for people talking about diversity in Hollywood.

I agree with you on the part where we need to stop going way overboard on people that do not articulate their position particularly well, or that seem to be on the right track, but have blind spots or biases that they would do well to learn and grow from. That’s more productive and more human.

At these meetings, they introduce Effie Brown, an experienced Hollywood producer and a black woman. She has produced seventeen feature films, including Dear White People and boy, the Irony Gods are working overtime today.