This is a great observation. We saw it with the Black Panthers and how the men shoved the women aside, even though the early work and activism was by women - the script that BLM followed, as well, with the same outcome so far - black men taking the forefront. Same with Civil rights, with many of the men rightly…

Black women are always at the forefront of everything Black and take all of the beatings and then have to come to their homes and worry about Black men harming them as well. It’s a damn shame and us Black men can’t help elevate the Black community without elevating Black women and LGBT people.

Disagree. The Root has always been straight forward. The article speaks the truth. And sometimes that truth hurts. We gotta do better for all of us for all of us to do better.

May I also add that talking about colorism to black men is like talking about racism to white people. They just don’t get it

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

Brace yourselves. The “Black Well, Actually” is coming.

Girl, I wanna troll the greys so hard for this post specifically.

Oh god - we used to DRIVE BY our crushes houses over and over. perchance to catch one tiny glimpse inside of their life. Because everybody’s everything was not on full display via social media. If we actually caught sight of THEM....well, amazing! But we settled even for seeing their house, guessing which room was…

You know which group is playing the game of life on hardcore settings? Black transwomen. Those women get the knocks from every direction. I wish I had half their strength of character and sense of self. I do wish that indeed. I’m glad that I don’t need it though, that I have enough privilege to duck out on most of the…

Omg this article is fucking perfect.

*Reads headline*

This sounds very similar to the conversation currently ongoing in the LGBT+ community in that Gay Men and to a lesser extent Lesbian Women are the ones who’ve been the rallying cases of and the main benefits to initiatives focused at the community and that they’ve just as badly treated other minorities within the…

You could make the same argument about men of all races we really all are a problem.

As an emotionally distant Uncle, this sounds like a good idea. I can just throw a 20 in a card and address it to my niece or nephew. Good to go.

Especially since all my nieces and nephews get all sorts of junk from their parents to begin with, that me buying them extra junk sounds awful. So a birthday card with a 20 is…

This is just what Los Angeles needs. Another members only clique for people who can afford monstrously expensive classes and I am sure, gold smoothies, vitamin packs and talks about the “toxins” in vaccines.

‘Often’ women, not exclusively women. It’s apparent that if people know you, they’re not expecting anything. I enjoy sending and receiving cards, as a male, for the record.

This is a deeply worthy reason for existing; new families often need more support than the American health care system and nuclear family-oriented social structure are able to provide.

Loom will provide a “community hub” where members can discus their dearly-held socially liberal beliefs while knowing they are fully protected from undesirable interactions with non-white or economically disadvantaged women.

I very strongly believe this, and I think we can’t even imagine yet where this trend will lead. I went to the movies the other day to see It, and I was flanked by teenage girls on my right and teenage boys on my left. The boys were plugged into headphones staring at their phones and the girls were snap chatting and…

Stories like this are just so tragic, and depressingly common. People are so capable of hiding things that when loved ones find out the truth it’s devastating. Like, maybe they knew that their spouse had a bit of a problem turning off the internet at night before bed, but who would presume that that was because they…