The best response was from some guy on Twitter who said if Kim really wants to shock everyone, she should post a picture of herself reading a book.

Hiring dark skinned women doesn’t happen enough already. That’s the colourism issue at the heart of this. It’s discrimination by preferencing white-public palatable, light skinned actresses rather than hiring dark skinned women to represent themselves – dark sinned women who already have much, much fewer opportunities…

It’s just a clusterfuck altogether. Let’s even say Zoe wanted to play the darker-skinned Angela Bassett. I guess that’s okay or whatever since Angela is still “conventionally” pretty enough and has gotten her share of work (relative to other black women obvi and not nearly as much as she deserves).

i don’t know what to make of that video. it is not conclusive in my book. what happened before the first scene? the woman who keeps trying to hit someone, did someone do something to her? i know the police talked to a lot of the people involved, i hope the court case sheds more light on this. at this point i am not…

Is the teaming doing anything that drastically wrong here? They haven’t been told why their teammate has been kicked off the squad and they are supporting him. Really not sure what they are supposed to do.

It sounds to me like Yale acted swiftly and efficiently and got rid of the guy. The Women’s center recognises that because of FERPA, Yale can’t say anything about what happened so I’m not getting the whole “silencing” thing. However, as dumb as the team’s actions are (even if they don’t know the exact nature of what…

“Did we expect her to give up this role in the name of facial features?”

“the worst stereotypes attached to Blackness, will be ascribed to your dark-skinned child, no matter how talented, hard-working or intelligent they are “

It’s irrelevant what term you would use. You can call it whatever you want for your own purposes. But, for the purposes of this discussion (in which we are specifically talking about Zoe Saldana portraying Nina Simone on the big screen) it should be obvious what we mean when we use the terms “light-skinned” and…

David is only concerned about the representation of black men.He had some pretty tone deaf things to say in the Movie Red Tails

compared to who?

Lol, do you really think things would have gone well for Andrews at ESPN if she aired them out on one of the most popular television shows of all time?

I get what you’re saying, but at seven months, it’s more than a ball of unviable cells; it is well past viability. And while I’ve had an abortion and certainly don’t want any legal precedent set that could bar me from making that same decision again, I really think someone should be held accountable for killing a…

animal cruelty? What the fuck is wrong with you?

I’m extremely pro-choice (and work in OB at a Catholic hospital, so... it’s a struggle), but I didn’t get the impression from the information in this write-up that we’re talking about a ball of unviable cells here. If we’re talking about like, a 25-week-old baby that should have gone to term, I don’t care what kind of…

So Kanye has said about his fashion line “I was trying to play a sport that’s a billionaire sport. It’s not a millionaire sport and I’m proud of the debt.”
I thought his was a vanity line, under a larger label. Why would he put so much of his own money into something the majority of his fans could not afford?

If we rejected or accepted studies based on how they were reported in the popular media, no scientific progress would be made. Ever.

It’s not a trend! It’s a goddamn scientific study.

White priest, to boot. Also, in totally unshocking news, the Catholic church allowed him to remain a priest until the late 1960s, despite the fact that by 1960 he had already been convicted of assaulting one woman (even if it was pleaded down to a more minor offence) and then accused of raping and murdering another.

Maybe it’s as simple as Texas in 1960, white man murders a Latina?