Every statue of Columbus should be replaced with a statue of Toussaint L’Overture.

“No matter what folks may say about you, you are a beauty icon, because you’ve challenged standards of beauty to make it a bit browner, a bit bronzer, a bit curvier.

I haven’t watched the full episode, but I’m not mad at the conversation. While publicly, Black women have advanced, behind closed doors, the terror of the Jezebel myth still looms large. Black women are so quickly thrown into the Madonna/Whore dichotomy even more so than White women that I could see where a woman…

Fucking gold.

also born and raised in the south. confederate flag is a pathetic symbol to pathetic people. it’s synonymous with the racism that slavery, and those who fought to preserve it... lost. and then set out to systematically terrorize and murder black people... represent.

it’s not a rebel symbol. unless what you’re…

It stands for the Confederacy, which was created to preserve slavery. Ergo, it stands for slavery.

Cribbing from Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station:

Does that matter?

To white people, being called “racist” is one of the worst things in the world. Even worse than threatening to kill people because of the color of their skin.

And who is this “we” he’s speaking of? Because if he’s trying to claim ownership of the German Nazis and the holocaust, then would that not make him one of those immigrants he hates so much, and wants to burn?

As a white person who works with and lives around Trump humpers, this is a fair assessment. That historical entitlement and casual supremacist indoctrination is a bitch to let go of, and I see waaaaaay too many folks who won’t even admit it’s there in the first place. We’re a whole damned culture of addicts to special…

This confirms a theory a have about white people and I’m not even going to say ‘some’ white people. They are so full of themselves that they can’t fathom being told that they can’t do something or that some spaces aren’t targeted to them. They can’t stand that there can actually be spaces that weren’t created just.…

They better check the roster for previous admissions before they embarrass themselves any further, then.

THIS! By bff went there when she was visiting colleges senior year and bragged about the great food in DC. I showed her this article and she was like “Who the fuck eats there of all places!”

I know Howard’s campus.