Is this something that the gym came up with AFTER he signed up, or before? Because if it's before, dude needs to have a stadium full of seats.

THANK YOU. Rosa was a right-on woman, raised by Garveyites, and was politically inclined to lean more towards Malcolm, not Martin. But to this day, they're still teaching that tired-ass "weary feet" story in schools. (I should know - I teach 4th grade.)

As a teacher, I cannot stress enough how much "Why?" is a stupid question. First off, there may not even be a reason why. Even good kids do stupid stuff. Two, whatever reason the kid gives you most likely won't be a good one, so whatever s/he says is just going to piss you off. Three, the smarter kids know better than…

That teacher of yours is awesome - and so are you! :)

it’s also a cheap trick, a way to stir up the volatile psyches of high school students in an effort to engage them in a task that they hate, namely, writing essays.

I hate you all.

I consider them a break because, IIRC, most (if not all) of the characters had met in college. You know Tyler isn't too fond of professional women with educations. But of course, that's all shot to hell by the end of the second movie. If I didn't love Janet Jackson so much, I wouldn't bother.

IIRC, Jo didn't know that her husband was secretly gay, hence that long discussion they had in the bedroom towards the end. She suspected sometime around the middle of the movie.

Tyler Perry is making these movies for a Black, mostly Southern, mostly Baptist (or similar denominations) audience. Any useful critique has to address this.

Holy shit, this is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

I'm amazed at how efficiently Perry was able to roll back discourse, human rights, the basics of consent, and storytelling itself in just one shitty movie.

I tend to take an either/or approach, but yeah. But I always scrape off the marshmallows on top. That's just too much sweet for me.

You'd have to know the politics behind the pudding, but I'll take a stab at it (I'm exhausted). Basically, Miss Jessie is a ripoff artist who has convinced many a napptural that her bullshit products are going to make their hair into a bunch of springy curls. In fact, one of her products (not this one) was found to be…

He would've freaked out - as I did - when I learned about white people's love for pumpkin pie (instead of sweet potato).

With a big-ass dick!

Jez is posting about black hair again? Fail boat appears in 5...4...3...2...

I went natural with the intent of having a glorious Pam Grier/Angela Davis fro. My hair won't do it for shit. Neither will my mother's, who hates her Kelis-like curls. We BOTH got fucked.

Effort AND money. I get so pissed when the media goes on and on about how much black women spend on our hair, as if it's because we're so conceited and money-foolish, as opposed to black hair care products being EXPENSIVE AS BALLS.

I looooove Mellie. I miss my girl Sally Langston, too. Between Sally being gone and Verna being dead, we don't have enough BAWSE chicks on the show anymore. Even Mellie can only do so much. When Mellie tried to step to Sally Dogs, I was embarrassed for her. Stay in your lane, boo. Stay in your lane.

This show has gone downhill like WHOA. I haven't liked Olivia since she treated Edison Davis like crap. I grew to like Fitz, but now he's getting on my nerves with his drunken manchild act. Mellie is still my girl, though.