Thank you. When people demean hip movement or relegate it to being something overtly and overwhelming (inappropriately) sexual it shows a lack of cultural understanding. Can it be sexual? Hell yes, but "gyrating" (the term bugs me for some reason) isn't inherently sexual by nature.

I didn't really like the song before the video came out. However, damn it, it is an amazing song for powerful and sensual dancing; two of my dance preferences. Both videos kick dance ass, so I see many view for both so that people can get the steps down.

This is why I love Youtube. I recently rewatched "Mo' Better Blues" and "Love Jones". I try to have a 90s movie night at least two weekends a month.

I haven't seen it either, but both films are of the "family culture clash at wedding" variety. Here's to hoping that JTB does it better.

I have many thoughts about the complexities of films about people of color, especially black people. The need for representation, but having to battle colorism. Being an ignored demographic due to a lack of religious beliefs, but feeling a want to support the actors. These are thoughts that seem to always happen to me…

My thoughts exactly. Although Laz Alonso isn't very dark they have still gone with the old standard of using a biracial female lead. So, yay, more stories about people of color, but definitely a huge "boo" for pushing obvious colorism . . . again.

Just bring back the show. The banter. How I miss the banter.

There isn't a debate to be had when the poster's point is about the actions of these people being a reflection on millions. "How the behavior of the culture affects individuals" would be a sociological stance based on pinning down the culture to what? Black culture? Which black culture are you talking about exactly?…

I'm sure that there are more people like you who don't have the intelligence to see people as individuals. So the answer is no, you are not.

I have such an intense reaction to seeing someone use spit as part of their assault on another person. It's like you've opened the door to the beating of a lifetime.

I agree with you a million times over. Teri Hatcher is Lois Lane to me. You have hit the nail on the head to why I can't see Amy as Ms. Lane. Don't get me started on Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. So upsetting.

I can't believe I didn't think of Rachel McAdams. She would be a great Lois. I cannot get behind this Amy Adams business.

I was thinking the same thing.

"The type that overdramatizes the challenges in the class so that her friends think she's forging the heart of darkness and blessing her for her service."

1.) This "teacher" knows her friends and knew exactly what kind of response they would give to this picture. A picture she should not have taken to begin with, let alone posted.

I'm allergic to cats, something I didn't know until my friend got the cutest kitten senior year of undergrad, but Siamese cats are gorgeous. Don't go near cats, but these are beautiful. My pit bulls lost, so I do this out of a sense of justice. For the pits and the weird racialness that is "Lady and the Tramp".

I will always take a puppy Pit or Rottweiler over a Golden. No question.

Oh, Jezebellian cultural divides.

A Robert Townsend reference on Jezebel? This is #COTD.

1.) I didn't say that not naming a character's race automatically makes a character white. I said that "that white is constantly/automatically thought of when a character is not explicitly stated otherwise". I'm noting the problem that has been documented in YA lit over the last few years. (See: controversy over…