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Maxine Shaw, attorney at LOL
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If you expect me to shed tears for how hard it is to be a man in America - even a black one - your cup is going to dry as hell. And I’m no different from the black women you don’t like. I’m just blessed enough to be able to see the woods for the trees is all. I can do conversation, but I don’t do Hotepism.

TELL ‘EM WHY YOU MAD, SIS!!!!

There’s a difference between a risk and a suicide mission.

It’s the same w/the “out of wedlock” births we always have to hear about. You have to adjust for the numbers. Black women, by and large, are having less children. It’s just that married black women are having waaaaay less children. And if you think about it, that makes sense. Most black women marry in their 30s, but

Since when have black women not had to reflect and learn? If anything, we’ve had to reflect and learn on how many black men take great pains to hold us down.

Did Beyonce give you permission to post?

To be fair, I don’t think that non-black women have a place at the Lemonade table. The project was by black women, for black women, and about black women. The opinions of people who are none of those things, be they positive or negative, are irrelevant. And this is a very huge thing, so insisting on being heard at a

Oh, that “eat the cake” line made me hit the roof. And then people were trying to justify it. Bullshit! Just one more example of Beyonce’s Basic Bitch Feminism. (Another is the Monica Lewinsky line.)

I love how you took my words and turn them into something that I did not remotely say in the slightest. Which is exactly what Beyonce stans do when they want to avoid an actual conversation. So no, you didn’t get it in the slightest.

And this why, while I can’t say that I’m happy that these two are having marriage problems, I can say that it amuses me to see them laid bare by none other than Beyonce herself. If this isn’t the most attention-whoring bullshit, I #sweatergawd...

Oh, absolutely. And black women ate that shit up with a spoon b/c we all know that we don’t reach peak femininity until we can show the world that WE’Z MARRIED NOW!!!!1111 That’s when I mean when I say Beyonce is cashing in on black women’s insecurities. “Look! Look! Her dancers have Afros just like me! SHE WOKE,

I don’t know if I should thank you for calling all out this comparison to Janet or be mad now.

My mind is now playing tricks on me and making comparisons between the Superbowl performance to Janet’s Rhythm Nation video.

All I know is if Janet Jackson ever stops performing, Beyonce’s going to go broke.

Three words: Fab. U. Lous. *Zorro snap*

I just bought The Making of Purple Rain. Can’t wait to read it. Also, if anybody wants more Crazy Prince Stories, check out Rick James’s autobio. Biased, of course, but it.is.hilarious.

Is it online? I’ve never seen PR (even though I’ve been practicing it on bass all weekend), and I’m not sure if I want to after reading some of the criticism. I mean, you throw a woman in a dumpster, and I’m going to take pause.

HEY. I slay/all day/I slay/okay is fucking gold. She’s just paying homage to Dr. Seuss.

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I howled like a banshee when people were saying Formation was a black feminist anthem. The FUCK??? 85% of it is how great is is to be Beyonce! Just b/c she’s using Hurricane Katrina as a fashion prop doesn’t make it pro-black! As for the idea that we’ve ever seen pro-black visualization in a music video, welcome to

If this was anybody else, we’d be slamming this shit for the tacky, sales-baiting joke that it is. But it’s Beyonce, so we have to praise her “personal growth” and how she’s being true to herself as an artist. My people, my people. *sigh*