She still looks like she’s 19 1/2

Vampire.

here you go:

Lord save me from all this performative white innocence.

Her mama must be white or white aligned. Black women have been having “biracial” babies for centuries. She’s not special.

“And they never know how to work with my less kinky hair type”

For real. I live in San Francisco, for my lunch break I took a walk around the palace of fine arts which has a beautiful little pond in front with a couple of swans, many ducks and seagulls, etc. Then as I’m walking past the parking lot with my phone in hand, I see a cop car, so I put my phone away because you don’t…

Of course, in neither of these circumstances—and in dozens more similar circumstances—can I say with 100 percent certainty that my blackness is why what’s happening is happening. But I believe it. A lifetime worth of evidence tells me that not believing it would be silly and stupid. And the tiny distance between that…

I’m glad y’all got the house. I’m sorry you had to endure that bullshit right before you crossed the finish line.  May you forever be able to keep your sneaker game on point. 

Redlining still exists, but they now have “data points” to explain it away. Even if we were able to leave out race/ethnicity, if you chose to live in a “black” neighborhood or “black neighborhood adjacent”, that alone would check the non-existent box for you. It’s always something.

I worked in mortgage servicing rather than origination, but even there I saw bias for sure; bias against POC, bias against LGBTQ, bias against disabled veterans, bias against the elderly & a huge bias against people w/ nontraditional jobs (unless they’re wealthy already). The excuse (when it’s brought up,…

For any of my fellow white people who want to cry, “But I was denied a loan once!” or “This is just the process works, lenders always make you justify your income!”, please read this before commenting.

Obviously La Croix.

“Thotnificient” is my new favorite word.

Terrified of the Beyhive, eh? Not a member (long-time normal level fan), but I’d argue Bey puts herself on high as a self esteem thing, not pick me. She’s seems to uplift other women mostly. 

Songs like that always make me think the singer wants to kill & taxidermy the girl but I’m not really normal sometimes. I mean, I want to make a music video of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” where a pair of elves keep trying and failing to kidnap the You in question and deliver him to the singer. 

Drake albums are basically pick-he mission statements, so start there.

I didn’t think anything could cheer me up after all the Supreme Court nonsense of the past few days, but hearing this did the trick.

I’m just not going to tell my mom.