Quick edit on Megan’s take: “Bootleg Roman” should be “Bootleg Logan”.  (Gerri didn’t call Roman a bootleg version of himself.)

This is very timely and important. Even those of us who don’t have chronic depression resistant to medication (like I do) have had many reasons over the past several years to be depressed given the collective trauma we’ve witnessed. I’ve got to watch more videos here at The Root. They’re always valuable and this one…

It feels like the negative changes in the comment section are deliberate and operating at a level beyond what the writers can do. Maybe it’s a G/O Media strategy. Foul positions are getting many stars; ditto antiBlack responses to valid points made in articles. Coupled with being unable to see notifications (and…

Thank you!      :)

Your final sentence brought tears to my eyes. The truth of it...whew.

Condoleezza* Rice, Ph.D, professor, diplomat, etc., conveniently leaves out that she was born into some privilege (though that’s never been enough to completely shield Black folks). She further ignores that being born in 1954 meant she benefited from the arduous, unabated labor of African-Americans of all…

This. Nationalities of the 19 “Muslim” mass murderers on 9/11 were as follows:   UAE:2, Lebanon:1, Egypt:1, Saudi Arabia:15 We also know about the Pakistani govt’s underwhelming efforts to quell terrorism even internally. I don’t blame civilians for the evil done by their governments. Hell, we’d forever be in a world…

Edit: Sorry for the long reply.

Thanks for the respectful and gracious reply.

Sooooo does he know the “ye” he’s referring to is pronounced “yee/yi” or nah?

You’ve made important points here. I do have to respectfully point out that as you did yesterday, you refer to the Pakistanis as “the Pakis”, which is a slur. I’ve never heard of or known them to refer to themselves this way. This is akin to “the Japs”. It’s xenophobic and racist in origin and I find it troubling-…

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I shouldn’t have laughed and I don’t know if you’re taking shots, but while I take your point I think it should be possible to get some baseline reciprocity from him and others. 

Yup and that singular representation seeps into all media. We rarely see a dark girl/woman /femme as glamorous, powerful, portrayed as beautiful, sexy, sweet or innocent. If she’s fat, then practically never. And this is regardless of the race of the director, producer or writers. It’s not so much a blindspot as it is…

That stereotype was also percolating in my system as I saw this. Admittedly, this is the first of the artist’s work I’ve seen but one can’t dismiss how seamlessly this fits in with other misogynist cover art by men in the genre. I’m also willing to bet that if she’d said it’s NOT for the male gaze, but instead a…

Okay, here’s what appears to be an unpopular take in the comment section thus far: I’m a dark-skinned Black woman from Philly and I don’t find this empowering/affirming. It’s nice that there are women of different sizes depicted. A darkskinned Black woman is the artist may suggest it isn’t done hatefully, but even the…

Glad you’re here and healthy. Glad you’re honoring yourself. Sorry about hateful people.

Watch him later try to clean it up by saying he loves his lesbian niece (Marlon’s daughter). I grew up on his family’s work and I loved his stand-up but I can’t revisit In Living Color because of the colorist injury, amongst other things. Their portrayals of darkskinned women who grew up poor like they did is…

Black Muslim Woman here who was quite a fan of Chapelle’s even though there were always bits that I disagreed with. It’s been plain as day to me that he’s being willfully obtuse because he knows that there are Muslims who are Black (given that he claims that intersection as part of his life). He wouldn’t DARE say…

Fair enough. Thing is, saying that she "got quite addicted to it" just before saying the frequency doesn't suggest anything mild.