I mean, this is a lady who eight years ago was bragging about her support from “hard working Americans, White americans”, so I think it’s fair enough for people to be skeptical that she’s really concerned with diversity. But yeah, Bernie bros! Only 20 year old white dudes have a problem with HRC!

so, #1 team in the east plays a bottom 3 team in the league missing its top two players, scores some transition buckets, and you seize that as your main evidence of their proficiency in transition? of course the cavs are impressive on the fast break but i’m not sure why you’d point it out now instead of waiting until…

I’ve recently heard of this guy and I’m already sick at the sight of him, he makes me ill. He sounds like a sexually violent man who thinks woman are lucky to have him, and his need for attention frightens me for the women who will come into contact with him.

I’ve personally found that being white in America is a pretty sweet deal. I’m always puzzled as to how these folks can’t grasp that.

Yeah, but...if there had been one POC cast in a leading role, you’d have half of white America blaming the 2007-09 crash on “those f-ing blacks” within 6 months.

Funny how “We were just reflecting reality” is a defense for not casting PoC but when they’re telling the story of real life PoC like with 21 it’s expecting too much to have those Asian-Americans be played by Asian actors.

this is a case of what i like to call the “Mad Men Excuse.” in short, you base a film or tv show around a perspective, group, and/or industry during a period in time in which said perspective, group and/or industry is predominately white and then give that setting as the reason your film or tv show must be…

Well said. As an aside, I’m so tired of Eddie Redmayne. The Oscar noms list was so uninspiring this year. My friend invited me to watch them with her during the blizzard, but I did work instead because they all look boring as hell, except the foreign films.

No problem: Creed, and Straight Outta Compton *specifically* as well as Samuel L Jackson Best Actor for the Hateful 8, Mya Taylor, Best Actress Tangerine, Michael B. Jordan, Best Actor Creed, Tessa Thompson Best Supporting Actress Creed, Teyonah Parris, Best Actress Chi-Raq.

Any of them are certainly as “worthy” as The…

They are always ready for movies by black people that are about slavery or history. It’s movies that are just about people who happen to be black that they have an issue with.

As a Giants fan, I will never understand why most teams (especially in the playoffs where it’s do or die) don’t try to get to Brady like the Broncos did yesterday. It’s almost like teams play passively vs Brady when that is precisely what he wants.

I’m not really surprised by a racist rant these days. When a white person tells me they’ve never said anything racist, I kind of just assume they’re lying...... Is that bad?

I love this speech and really admire Shonda Rhimes, while simultaneously not liking any of the shows she has created. Crazy? Don’t care.

My reaction:

Ok, so I just don’t get SNL. Every time I hear a sketch is worth watching I’ll give it a go but it never raises more than a slight smile. Like, a literally half second, half smirk. I dunno, I’m Scottish, British humour is different but this wasn’t funny to me. It seems laboured, over rehearsed, the jokes are obvious…

For someone who starred in a film about middle-aged white women going to Haiti for sex tourism I thought she’d have a pretty nuanced idea of what white privilege and racial power imbalance (i.e. a women can enjoy societal power over a man if she is white and he isn’t) mean, and thus not simplify the Oscar debate going…

Didn’t Patricia Arquette make this same damn speech for the Oscars last year: ala white-women-have-it-the-worse plight?

If that person could not think of one POC performance in 2015 that was deserving of a nomination, that says more about his limited viewing habits than it does about the quality of the performances. And he thinks Jennifer Lawrence was worthy for ‘Joy’? If so, he’s disqualified from being taken seriously.

I swear, trying to reason with certain whites about racism and privilege is like dealing with a bratty 6 year old who’s old enough to know that mom and dad expects her to share with her siblings but cries about the injustice of not being able to have all or most the things to herself anyway. “It’s not fair! You always…

You know I usually just go about my business as a white woman, doing my best to not be a “white feminist,” realizing the privlage I was born with and doing what I can to make the world a better place for those who don’t have the things I do but sometimes I read just one too many things that make me embarrassed to be…