His philanthropy is wonderful. He gives a lot of scholarships and funds education, in Boyle Heights, Ferguson, and England. I have a lot of respect for him.

The point being he had to leave the auditorium to find black people.

Chinese people were marching in New York last week against the conviction of an officer that killed an unarmed black man. But now it’s black people’s responsibility to advocate on their behalf?

Fuck that. No one takes care of us but US. Non-Black POC are welcome to join us in protest on any subject or organize their own protests. No one asks Asians or Hispanics to consider Black people with every move they make. Why must the weight of every minority be on our shoulders, while usually being shit on by those…

(After all, different colors of skin is an easy kind of diversity. Ideological diversity is much harder, because it forces everyone to come face to face with actual beliefs. Hollywood needs BOTH.)

i’ve noticed this again and again. someone of another ethnicity will pipe in about black activism and how it “excludes” others. and i just say, well then you guys jump in and start marching and yelling and telling your own stories because we blacks can’t speak to everybody’s experiences.

Across my Facebook page, you mean. I live in the south. THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!!!!

No, you got it completely right. This monologue was a masterpiece: A 100% searing takedown of the industry people sitting right in front of him. Chris Rock brilliantly said it all with a smile. He anesthetized the audience by using his usual cadence of jokes, self-deprecation and hyperbole, familiar to them from his…

Believe me, I give a healthy amount of side-eye to the fact that I even have to explain how yes, Irish people were used for bonded labor, and no, it was no where near as prolific or widespread as the African slave trade. And then go on to shit all over their oppression Olympics by pointing out that Irish people…

“Every time someone mentions Irish slaves” you tell them to hush. The conquistadors and colonists tried to indenture and enslave whoever they could at some point. Experimentally. Didn’t work with the indigenous folk, who were susceptible to their diseases or could simply leave into the vastness of their own damn land.…

“Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind”

Sharona?

me too.

Those are all still nouns: “extreme dishonesty broker”, not “extremely dishonesty broker”. Nouns take adjectives and adjectives take adverbs. The construction “X eater” denotes one who eats Xs. And X is still a noun.

I didn’t know there were Bernie supporters who didn’t understand that greed is a thing...

To be less attacky towards you - this woman has seen major change in civil rights for African Americans. Voting rights, segregation, lynchings, she has lived through it all. The ‘downer’ bit is a lot of why this means so much to her.

Great video.

To put Ms. McLaurin in perspective: when she in elementary school (i.e., old enough to know what’s going on in the world and to make lasting memories), women — of any color — could not vote.

And then to live long enough to see a black president and first lady, in-person, who I assume she voted for? Whoo,…

After he won the election, I cried for the elders who never thought they would see this day, and I cried for the children who would see the Oval Office as a possibility.

I did my makeup all nice just to cry it off. I remember calling my grandmother when Obama was elected. She was “all full” as she used to say because she said she never thought she’d live to see it, and she was so, so proud. She couldn’t legally vote until she was 24 year old and had left the South. She got to see a…

This was so lovely to watch!