A close family member works at Burberry HQ here in London. He’s fairly junior but he has for the last two of his four years there been asking for diversity stats on race. They’ve continuously obfuscated but he’s kept on at them, pointing out various microaggressions and issues and the need for more colour at the top,…

Not sure where you are trying to go with this but that’s an absurdly false equivalency.

This is awesome - in principle. It’s a huge issue where I come from and in the countries I work in southern and West Africa. But most sub-Saharan African economies rely on the informal sector; it’s the biggest ‘employer’ outside agriculture and in many countries the primary source of goods. So I’m not sure how…

I did the Rez thing too! Took years to realised it was Reece!

I audibly gasped when I saw this. This album was everything to me the last year of high school when it came out and then throughout uni. At first I tried evangelising about it to anyone who would listen and when I failed, I recognised it as something too special for mass appeal, it became like a precious personalised…

Wow - 3-5 years?! 

Well, this was... deeply condescending towards someone whom you know all of seven words about. You make several compelling points, none of which I would disagree with, and similar to things I’ve written posted right here. But you were wrong to assume so much about me from so little.

Why is this man not in jail?!

It’s an example illustrating your case, argument, point, whatever you want to call it. Although you seem to have missed mine altogether, which is that by misidentifying Congolese people as ‘Congan’ you’ve failed to employ the accuracy in representation you are calling for, undermining your own argument.

Damn. 

Same, Yeoh is everything. And Constance Wu’s support for BLM and other causes adds to my feeling that I need to support this movie the way I would support a black-led movie, with all its imperfections. We’re not always perfect allies, and the Chinese population alone means they don’t need my coins, but I wanna show…

Congolese? Maybe you’re not the one to be making this argument. 

Wait. Whaaaaa

He has one good song - Nirvana, and that’s mostly because it sounds like an Anita Rapture era cast off. Everything else is trash because his try hard voice just grates and there isn’t an original offering in his entire catalogue. Ms Mills is spot on, until he stops benefitting from the privilege that positions his…

Agree with all of this and want to add that Beyonce’s commitment to how she is represented visually is well documented and has for a long time even been a source of ridicule - her vault (of images not the wig one lol), and her request to remove unflattering Super Bowl pics from media outlets for instance. Even Azaelia…

She always brings a smile to my face; although it feels our current trajectory is decidedly downwards, I’m reminded the future is in really good hands with young women like her.

I’ll just leave this here.

Kanye is officially the Dolezal’s black counterpart. This level of hubris is only inherent in entitled white men. Pity they think even less of him and his art than we do of her and her... whatever that is.

All of this. Honestly this is such a boring ‘argument’ if it can be called that. Who are we fighting lol and why? Let her be great.

I actually meant the article you were referencing was glowing. Reading back I see why that was unclear! Your article was as balanced and considered as usual and yeah my feeling is exactly the same. Which is a shame because sympathy really isn’t what one should be feeling for a consenting bride.