I wish this information was on the citizenship test.

Yeah as much as colorism is dismissed, featurism is even more dismissed. It’s how people end up with repetitive, deliberately obtuse conversations about what it means to “look Black” or “look African American.” After all some Black dudes find Ethiopians and Eritreans sufficiently “exotic” but not a Kenyan who looks…

Also, a mention of infidelity in support of the idea that black women are ok for sex, but not marriage.

Hating blackness is a problem b/c even if a person has a non-black spouse, their children need a positive sense of blackness for healthy emotional development. The kids need to not hate their black side for their well-being.

I think they’re like roses and golden retrievers -- they can be nice, but overrated, and there’s tons of other pretty, pleasantly fragranced flowers and cute dog breeds.

It starts early, like the black hair post that had a commenter whose 6th grade son allowed a white girl to touch his hair b/c he had a crush on her.

The housekeeper was underpaid, unless cleanings were infrequent.

There are plenty of colleges that receive so many applications they must reject tons of qualified students because there’s only so much space at the school.

** dude should date online @ racists ‘r us. nobody else finds such behavior attractive

From Wakanda, a land of self-respecting Africans? Nope, not even as a metaphor.

A person from Wakanda would have an appreciation for African beauty, though not necessarily exclusively.

Some black people really fetishize mixed people.

Right, because some mixed people look like one parent more than the other. Your kids might look more like you.

Ha ha ha, like you’d know everyone in the diaspora of over 1 billion people!

Her action means that her children live in a less hostile and more welcoming environment. That is extremely important to the emotional development of minority children. 

Moving neighborhoods and switching churches are important steps that benefit her children. Soooo many white parents of brown kids, including mixed kids, never make the effort to live, worship, and socialize in more diverse environments for the benefit of their children.

Now is a good time for the “don’t let a girl/woman demean you just because you have a crush on her” talk.

That (and younger) is when it’s ok to ask and touch if you get consent.

Well, many people have not bowed down to something greater than them, like nature, and that’s why we have climate change. Secular Western thinking is not 100% good, given how destructive unregulated capitalism can be. 

Church allowed black people a physical break during slavery. I think that’s why black churches have such long services.