Yup. They are.

White women overwhelmingly voted for their whiteness and felt that their womanhood could take a backseat. Call it what it is.

But isn’t Issac a bigger “star”? Inside Llewyn Davis won all sorts of awards and Show Me A Hero was brilliant. The only thing I saw with Boyega before Stars Wars was Attack the Block.

Don’t forget Brian Tyree Henry (“Paper Boi” in Atlanta), Angela Bassett, Aja Naomi King, Sanaa Latham, Lupita Nyong’o (and I’m sure I’m missing many others) are all Yale grads as well.

But the casting directors know immediately.

I agree. So why is Samuel L Jackson being dragged for saying this same thing? I’m baffled.

Can New York Magazine do a cover story on this please?

Name calling aside, to completely believe that the Republican machine is behind all of the outward going ons is reductive and problematic. Until we get ahold of “our” party and begin to work all angles of this mess, we’ll continue to question why the media disregards ruling families, yet props up Kellyanne (2 sides of…

Clearly I can’t be Susan and Donald so I choose Susan.*

Thank you!

She doesn’t “wriggle and doublespeak” her way out of anything. The Dems and the media and compliant in that they allow her (and the entire administration) to go unchecked after a few SNL skits.

Ha! Don’t hold your breath. The media and the Dems abandoned “the people” (and the truth) looooong time ago.

Rod was my only problem with the film (except a couple of things that moved the plot forward but had me & mine saying “See, Black folks don’t do that”**). Lil Rel was soooo over the top that Rod became a caricature of what your homie who works at the TSA truly is. I was out to dinner with (Black) friends before the…

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Apples to oranges. We’re literally talking about people who built the country having been forced to work for hundreds of years for free. We can talk about other human rights abuses that happened over time and in the current climate to Latinx folks, but the discussion here isn’t “my blues are worse than yours” this…

1000 stars. I love your post. It’s not hard to figure out how to begin the process. My grandfather was a WWII vet who didn’t get a GI loan nor did they get a nice middle class home in Levittown. He died while his 5 kids were in middle and high school (my mom was one of those kids), and life was EXTREMELY difficult for…

Coates is not the end-all in scholarship, especially when it comes to the notion of reparations. I realize that he may be the only scholar who you’re familiar with who has spoken of reparations but he is definitely not the first and won’t be the last. Some of the questions you have already have answers. And not all…

Have you done the calculations for what it would cost to repay for the hundreds of years of free unpaid labor to everyone who was enslaved? Just curious. Should that debt go unpaid because it is so large? Is that your argument?

I don’t understand what is wrong with that. We’re paying into social security and will probably never benefit. My grandparents are currentlypaying school taxes that they nor their kids (my mom) or I never benefitted from. We’re paying federal taxes that go towards the military to fight wars we don’t believe in,…

This is always the explanation when those who don’t want to do the hard work of righting what was wrong. Some of these are good questions, no doubt, but others are just stupid. But to sit around and say “well it’s just too hard to untangle so we’re not even going to try” is cowardly and complacent. And as far as…