Somehow I think it’ll be more like…

Recent events on YouTube have shown that clicks alone aren’t what keeps you on. There have been several high-profile cases of YT ‘star’ who are still widely watched getting sponsorships pulled or their partnership status revoked because of what they put on their channels. Also, usually if I’m going to critique…

Not from me, the still from the video I can see embedded is more than sufficient; that expression on her face tells me all I need to know. It’s pretty cruel to take a beautiful, painful performance like that and just slap a different label on it, as if the history of blacks in America (or of women in America, for that…

He is my fave on the show! His side eyes are what I live for! The ‘Barbershop’ episode triggered some form of PTSD in me from when my former bestfriend put braids in my hair. It took three days for box braids and involved an unruly child, her beauty supply store (that only sold black gel, yaki braiding hair, and…

Why didn’t he just comply? Maybe because even those who call the cops occasionally get killed by them? Sometimes those who were merely witnesses get arrested?

Keep in mind that the police were only supposed to be looking for someone who, at worst, was committing property crimes. Yet they managed to escalate that into the taking of an innocent man’s life. Having your car broken into sucks, but nothing like being dead forever. If I owned one of the damaged cars and heard that…

Because contrarianism attracts attention, no matter how silly the assertion.

O/T but don’t you wish you could snap your fingers and grow, like, 16 inches of hair? I love growing my hair long, but after a while I chop it off because I need a change. But it never grows back fast enough for me not to miss long hair.

believe me, I know, and i can see i’m in the minority.. i don’t hate her, just nervous she goes overboard and becomes a bit cartoonish, thus sabotaging her career.. just a different take, that’s all.

In this context stereotypical behavior (over simplification, but dangerous) - especially those associated with dark skin black women - means being loud, a bit rustic, ingratiating, lacking self-control etc. I am not saying Tiffany is all of that, but recent observations have me a bit nervous. The talent is there, I…

Well I’m rooting for her to win and have fun doing it. But it is possible to win and have fun without engaging certain stereotypes, especially those commonly associated with dark skin black women. And exactly what does “unapologetic blackness”mean these days? I hope we not defining the term downwards to excuse all…

If I may humbly submit an opinion as a white person... We do need to hear about how damaging the respectability game is. Of course, it is not the responsibility of black folk to explain things to white people, but it’s not always futile. It took me a long time to understand about respectability politics, and I am…

You took my words too literally. I don’t see this article at speaking directly to white people. Because that guy may have been directing his comments to black people on FB, but it was to benefit white people. And leaving thoughts like that in the air without rebuttal is wrong.

Yeah, it’s such a small minority that it seems like a waste of time to even bother responding.

“Why are these lames even being paid attention to?”

Just the fact that this person thinks Tiffany can “embarrass the race” is enough to never listen to a word he says.

Another Pirate chiming in.

That’s such a shame that such a great place is now full of fuckery, as you said.

I didn’t go to HU (but I lived in Hampton) and even I knew about some of these issues twenty-plus years ago. It’s really sad to see how things don’t change over time. The leadership continues to fail the student body.

I think most people aren’t aware of some of these issues from the outside looking in? I know I didn’t know those things when I accepted my scholarship or moved into the dorm.