They just lie and invent people who lost their healthcare coverage because that’s an unverified (false) story they read on Breitbart or The Blaze.

Thank You for establishing the difference between what Minaj has done here and what Wu-Tang did with 36 Chambers.

THIS is the article that was needed. There is no issue with the representation of LGBTQ people, but it’s never the white lead star who’s suddenly LGBTQ. It’s only ever women or people of color.

At the end of the Trump years, she like many others, I’m guessing Diamond and Silk, will say they only did it for the money and to play the media game before they demand to be re-invited to cookouts.

Sheep-Dip
(US, espionage) To replace someone’s public service in the military and/or intelligence with another pretended occupation in order for them to serve as a covert intelligence agent. The agency sheep-dipped the soldiers, so they were “civilians” during their secret mission.

Thank You for this series, preemptively. Mental Health in the Black community is a serious concern that carries with it many long-standing stigmas and prejudices. Too many of us are told that we just need to Pray on it, or we’re faking, or we’re just crazy or ‘born evil’.

The more black people - especially a respected…

There are any number of videos and articles you can Google that will explain this for you, from the Confederate style pants and two golden chains to the Jim Crow facial expressions and dance moves.

That gatekeeping exists in many cultures does not justify it, or the alienation it causes based upon assumptions. Seeing a black man at a bar with a group of white women, one might assume that he’s chasing becky’s due to the standards of gatekeeping - which is basically instant judgment and assumption based upon first…

My point is separate from the issue of black nerds claiming that being rejected by black women turned them towards white women / people / culture.

Exactly - You shouldn’t be treated like a low-key traitor to the Black people for enjoying a craft brewery. There needn’t be this gate-keeping, ‘With Us in Everything, or Against Us In Everything’ in the community.

First of all I want to clarify that I, personally, do not feel that a black girl owed me her time and attention in exchange for mine, so we agree on #1. A black woman owes no one her time, and no man is entitled to it. It’s earned. If a guy isn’t willing to do the work to earn a woman’s time, he won’t get it. That’s…

As I stated, your argument appears to be ‘You can like whatever you want, but if there aren’t enough black people also liking the things you like you need to double check that you’re black or examine why you like this thing.’

I agree with you insofar as if your interests don’t align with that of most black girls and you claim black girls didn’t like you, you’re being disingenuous and deflecting from a multitude of other real issues.

You can read Jane Eyre in the middle of a circle of Black friends, likely unbothered. Joining the Jane Eyre Appreciation Society, hanging out with only those White members, and being comfortable being the one Black face among them at the spot afterward takes deliberate effort.

“I’ll just say it: I’m exhausted with the unchecked pretension of some black people who believe they are “different” because they don’t like what is considered acceptable in our community. Congratulations! You’re contrarian.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but what you’re suggesting is an epidemic of self-loathing or otherwise color-struck black men who believe whiteness = happiness and success, and by choosing white women, denigrate black women.

This is a whole lot of emotion over the word ‘Perceived’. How did “perceived” turn into “black women be trippin over nothing?” That doesn’t sound like The Root, a publication with a black female editor.

I see what you meant and you have a point. Back in the day, things like this *could* wind up public knowledge the resulted in shaming, depending on the topic. I suppose that’s what shocks me about this. Private, consenting sexual affairs between adults being something subject to public shaming shouldn’t be happening…

For me, the operative word is ‘merits’. Back in the day, when someone’s business got put in the street, it was considered messy, but undeserved unless they had a) lied to the public; b) been especially hypocritical; c) were abusive or criminal.

Thank You! Since when do personal private affairs automatically indicate how you behave in any other part of your life?