I’m so sorry this was also your experience. It’s its own unique, hellish enclave which is imperceptible to almost all but those who dwell/dwelled there. I only learned the term “narcissistic personality disorder” 2 years ago and was stunned to see how well it fit them. It was so validating yet horrifying that all that…

This is disrespectful of those there who’ve ever been kidnapped or had a loved one kidnapped. Some folks lived and died from actual trauma without a fraction of all the attention/support she was able to garner by well-meaning people. Not to mention the privilege, entitlement and arrogance of disparaging the food and…

“Parents who verbally and emotionally abuse their kids are careful to destroy them at home, where they are petty tyrants.” It’s bittersweet seeing the truth of my upbringing (and the toxicity of the dynamic in adulthood) laid so bare by an empathetic stranger. Relatives and family friends are recipients of kindness…

TMZ seems to be the exact “source” on this lie about litigation by Tessica Brown. TMZ IS AGRESSIVELY RACIST. HARVEY LEVIN IS A VIRULENTLY, ANTIBLACK RACIST AND HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE. The end.

Oh, wow. I had no idea Nicki Minaj said that. Very disgusting. Her track record in terms of solidarity with sexual abusers is disturbingly consistent. It makes me wonder if she was victimized then became the monster who despises those who’ve been harmed.

Oh, this is so wonderful. I hope they’re given substantial rewards for saving her getting him caught.

Several decades ago there was a racial split at least at the level of Southern Baptists. Ditto, a century earlier. I’m hardly well-versed in the history, but every time some chasm has formed it’s involved a large group of folks incensed that the humanity of Black people is being addressed.

Slight edit: the demonym for people from Ghana is Ghanaian, not Ghanian even though that’s how it sounds when we pronounce it.

Good point. It’s why I’m happy to leave her all the way alone. I’ve yet to read Fearing The Black Body. I intend to. If memory serves correctly, I read an article on www.wearyourvoicemag.com that referenced it. It shed light on how fatphobia and sensuality were discourses used as part of antiBlack dogma in…

Actually, I meant I.T.T. Specifically part 2. But thanks for showing me a song of his I didn’t know. The one I mentioned is from the “Black President album. It speaks to how Africa’s wealth is stolen to the West with the complicity of Black men who are mercenaries. And the deliberate obfuscation of facts by using…

You know what? You’re absolutely right. Much of what we do and give benefit all of humanity yet they tend to make OTHERS very wealthy instead. I figure he ain’t hurting financially but I’m happy to see him even richer because I trust he’d channel some to even greater acts of generosity.

I ain’t mad at cha for wanting to put it on him! Lol. It’s wild that moments of us being treated as fully human gets me EVERY time.

True story. And it was his compassion that informed the way he went about this.

I saw a short video on YouTube by Daily Gist where it was removed. Seeing a Black surgeon carefully and tenderly attending to a Black woman’s hair and scalp moved me to tears. I was certain her hair was done. He found a way to resolve the problem while preserving what was important to her. It reminded me of the sister…

I love our people, too. This article has made my entire day. Thank you.

As is true of Black people elsewhere, Africans were colonized -by Britain in Nigeria’s case. Christianity and Islam forced on us. Western names were deemed more “civilized”. His being an oloshi (fool) and yeye (useless) person are the issues, not his name. Otherwise, it devolves into an ugly discussion. E.g. The…

This worthless racial “pick-me” is a disgrace to all sensible Africans and a smug slap in the face of all African-Americans/Black Americans who made his very life in the U.S. possible. We definitely have our intercultural tensions, but permit me to declare that exponentially more Nigerians and other Africans on the…

I’d prefer he eat a warm, semi-liquid bowl of it teeming with worms and cholera. (I’m African and I endorse this message.)

Glad she’s getting expert, professional help for free. Shout-out to the Ghanaian-American brother helping a sister who couldn’t afford it otherwise. I hope she’s able to forge a new path because she’s damaged her credibility as a teacher of young people.

We’re in total agreement about the stringent protocols only directed at Black women for “acceptable” ways of being if we’re to sometimes be treated as valuable or human. In the aforementioned post, I noted that even many sisters with naturals “slick down” their edges. Everything about our naturally occurring aesthetic…