So what you are saying is that you don’t understand how black women’s hair works versus white women’s hair and how Shea Moisture even became a thing and you should just not have commented really.

BECAUSE TAKING THE HIGH ROAD HAS BEEN WORKING OUT SO FUCKING WELL FOR US.

Some people need to be able to pay their mortgage or feed their kids. ‘Fuck this’ isn’t an option if you get fired and blacklisted.

Or the “You’re playing into their hands!” crowd, you know, because not playing into their hands has been so effective. Or, you know, as if we should fucking care, anymore, about what they think of us since they think that about us, anyway.

It’s only a matter of time before some tiresome person shows up, wringing their hands and proclaiming that “we’re better than this” and “all vandalism is wrong.”

I’m opposed to vandalism and violence, but I believe this fits into the same category as “Always punch a Nazi.” 🌟🔨

This isn’t compassion; it’s an excuse. I know it FEELS like compassion, but your underlying assumption seems to be that people from abusive backgrounds are too broken to function properly as adults. Speaking as someone from a quite abusive background, with many friends and acquaintances from varying levels of abusive…

I would watch Amber Ruffin do anything.

It’s not a straw man... I was a Republican until about 2012 and then decided that my values and beliefs didn’t line up with theirs. I thought I was a Democrat now, but then people like you make me feel like there is no place for me in the party. Do you not want my support and money? How are Dems supposed to win…

Remember that month or two where Megyn “White Santa” Kelly was totally going to start being a liberal savior because Trump harassed her and she didn’t fully toe the Fox party line? We need not open our doors to people saying “I laid down with dogs, can I bring these fleas into your house now?”

It’s sort of gaslighting and I noticed that some black Brits are going to this tactic-arguing that they are getting the work because Hollywood is a meritocracy and they are just better, which is funny in one way (in what universe is Hollywood a meritocracy) and insidious (it’s a meritocracy so of course they wouldn’t…

I always check the bio for black actors, they are often well-trained and versatile. Its business as usual,people don’t know what they’re talking about but are not the least ashamed to spew asinine comments.

My favorite is, “What are you?” Like, what the fuck man? What do you mean ‘what am I’?

I’ve started to turn it around on them and ask sweetly: “where do you think I’m from?” You’d be surprised how nervous people get when they have to guess what kind of wrong you are.

Yes!

And don’t forget that Brian Tyree Henry is a Morehouse grad with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. (I’m trying to come up with a good Diploma Paper Boi joke.)

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.

Also Nicole Beharie of Sleepy Hollow , Andre Braugher, Wendell Pierce(Julliard), Andre Holland , Mahershala Ali, Sterling K Brown(NYU), and on and on. People that assume black actors are not trained are the same people who assume black Americans in general are not educated.

Sunday Candy

It’s almost always about a hip hop artist. Certainly doesn’t feel like a coincidence.