There could be 10 people waiting for the bus on a corner in the hood. 8 are calmly waiting to go to school/work/run errands/socialize, but people focus on the 2 who are acting up.

“Button-down” is supposed to refer to shirts w/ collars that button ... down. As someone who buttons like a 5 year-old, I find it more accurate to button up.

Alexandra Shipp has a white mom who is likely not woke based on her daughter’s words and actions. Amandla Stenberg has a black mom.

Yep. I moved there for a job b/c few were hiring after 2008. “Where did you go to high school?” indeed.

How many men really take dating advice from their mom? Or date who their mom want’s ‘em to date?

I wonder if this is why their divorce rates are higher than average.

She let it [him] go.

Taye Diggs is a reminder that not all of us want to move to Wakanda.

Tell her that, too!

It’s clear that he/she is unaware of structural oppression and how it currently operates.

Did you watch the movie? The country is not homogenous. It is made up of 5 different groups.

Not that I cared about the omission, but I wondered, what about black people with serious internalized racism? Would they get the colonizer treatment?

They created and prefer neigborhood segregation and then get mad at Luke Cage. SMH.

maybe dancing polka due to the Polish musical influences in Mexico?

Just like after working in a legal clinic I realized that some people hate their ex more than they love their kid, it is clear that some black men hate white men (collectively) more than they love black women (collectively). The fact that someone recently wished that Melania would have sex to spite Trump without…

Where would a person look for your writing?

PJ, yes you are fortunate to have grown up in a pro-black environment. It seems that people like Anna Holmes need to learn more from light-skinned black people, especially about the similarities in experience. Thank you for acknowledging that there are plenty of dark-skinned mixed people whose experiences are…

They want to 1) live in environments where we are absent or subsurvient; and 2) spend some of their free time denigrating us in person without significant consequences. Communicating via social media from flyover country/segregated neighborhoods/gated communities/trailer parks/etc. is an easy way to do this.

Black people with self-respect want to know this with
EVERYBODY for obvious self-preservation reasons. This stuff is systemic, after all, and not just about hurt feelings.

My friends (and mother) are black female Trekkies whose red car has Uhura as its license plate.