I find this very disrespectful. They’re taking something deeply meaningful/sacred and using it profanely by trotting it out in pantomime of and in literal lip-service to genuine solidarity, actual justice or real transformation. The notion that this will placate us and convince us that this is “progress” is extremely…

Thanks. I saw your comment elsewhere in the thread, which was helpful. It’s a tricky thing about the greys. Some folks are genuine and others are manipulative phonies. I wish there were a proper way to both vet folks and permanently ban the use from the ip address after acting up. There are so many here that they’re…

It’s exhausting. I’m a feminist and Africana Womanist with more emphasis on the latter. I get that there are White women who are decent, have integrity and stand in solidarity with us, but today’s not the day I cheer on that negligible percentage. Given the choice to defend what is right, the other White chick chose…

Thanks for the reminder to check them out. It’s been a while. Between hearing about Suzzanne Douglas and Ayesha K. Faines, today’s brought a lot to process pertaining to Black women’s whose lives have been powerful gifts for the community and world. I’m kind of in shock. I really feel for their loved ones.

May she rest well. Ms. Douglas appears to have been good and beautiful both on and off screen.

100% cosign. At this juncture, I don’t even care to know the origin since his sole purpose is injury. He and Wendy would make a deservedly miserable couple. Success, fame, and financial freedom in their chosen fields but constantly focused on fomenting negativity. Pathetic.

WOW. From our previous exchange, I’m disappointed. Either you’re wildly unfamiliar with how Curtis Jackson engages harmfully with Black women, particularly those who aren’t biracial/racially ambiguous or you don’t care. His interactions with bigoted White women is the diametric opposite. Finally, “you people”, was…

Your first line made me snort-laugh. Yeah, I was mighty concerned that I equivocated too much or was so SUBTLE you couldn’t really tell. Lol.

I agree with your assessment.

Oh, it’s definitely a shame. I take your point that many of us have evolved over the past two decades. While I imagine that’s true to some degree for some both guys we’re discussing, part of the issue is they aren’t exactly incentivized to grow as people particularly around gender/sexuality. As presumed heterosexual…

He was one of the older rappers whose music I was exposed to in my early teens. “Hustler” still goes hard in 2021-sonically and lyrically. Sadly, as a dark-skinned Black girl (and now woman), I’ve always known that Tracy Lynn Marrow has been a proud, colorist misogynist steeped in misogynoir. Some of these guys grow…

This was my thinking the moment I first read she was doing this. Brat has had various forums and ways of earning while refusing to pay this woman she permanently damaged. I’d be disgusted that an abusive man kept getting those opportunities while flaunting wealth (like Brat has done in gifts to her beloved). If Shayla…

Aziah “Zola” King has discussed being nearly erased, followed by Hollywood types wanting her imbue their work with her creativity...for free. It’s offensive, disrespectful and par for the course as a Black/Africana woman in this country.

This brought me joy. I hope she and her team are able to achieve what they set out to do.

In a very twisted way, ignorance and racism get baked into us. I remember the conversation with a fellow Africana/Black person wherein I told him that this term was used to describe my eye shape with ZERO animosity towards Asians. There’s a HATEFUL slur that has historically been passed down by the same folks who also…

Ditto.

Right? He has had stunningly superlative achievements in baseball, coming from a country where talented ball players hone their skills to brilliant effect. Yet he’s still tentative about his personhood; auditioning to be/feel human to himself and others. It’s tragic. Cos there are folks of all races who celebrated him …

I’ve always found this so freaking sad. It suggests that even in what should be loving relationships he necessarily sees himself as inferior to the nonBlack women he partners with/marries. It also means he’s failing to raise his children with pride in half of their heritage. 

Poignant, Tender, Vulnerable, Honest, Lovely.

Beautiful