I want to appreciate the good spirit in which your comment is intended but it’s just shocking to me when people admit that they don’t know or listen to any Black people.

This is a cry for help right? I shouldn’t laugh at this?

And the Queen of Thorns was always the real power behind the Tyrells. It is know.

So horrible and I can’t stop thinking about the other children in that house. Can you imagine? They’re growing up as a part of this horrific, depraved abuse against their disabled sibling? This is normalized in their home, this is what the adults in their lives are teaching them and they’re watching it all happen up…

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Yeah, I thought that if I were her I would not cede “better looking version” to Jessica Biel. But I bet her husband said “Oh shit, they’re the better looking version of us!” and she thought “Speak for yourself”- but that’s not the kind of thing you say to a person you love. So she probably agreed, as many of us would.…

Yeah, “peaceful ethnic cleansing” has never happened. That’s not a thing. Does he think it sounds more pc? Like only if you don’t think about it at all.

“Some sort of Sun goddess”, I’m pretty sure it was Oshun. Orisha of fertility, beauty and love. Breathtaking. I’m not sure but it felt to me like a gorgeous tribute to the women of the African diaspora, our ancestors who survived and enabled us to be here.

That is some selective ass reading of my reply. Do you think that segregation makes Black people evaporate? Like because they weren’t admitted as patrons, there were no Black people in the Cotton Club? Is that what you really think? Because that scares me. Please re-read all the stuff in my reply that you chose to…

Using the Cotton Club as an example in defending a movie’s decision to erase Black people from Harlem in the ‘20s is fucking ludicrous and so, so disingenuous. The fame of the Cotton Club was built on Black music and performers, full stop. There was no Cotton Club without Black people, even if their treatment of Black…

The response is: “The state’s right to what, exactly?” I teach US history and that’s how I handle smug kids who come in insisting that slavery really had nothing to do with it. For those wanting to get more educated: read like anything by Eric Foner or look at the secession documents themselves, which are pretty clear…

Umm but I just watched thousands of protesters peacefully assembled near the Navy Memorial on C-Span. Why is Jezebel only covering the protests that are chaotic, building the conception that all protest is chaotic? There are many forces in DC today who spent months planning for well coordinated actions. Most of the…

It’s not “white knighting” it came out of the Black liberation movement(s) of the late 60s & 70s. I’m Black and I was taught to capitalize it by my parents (mom taught African American studies at the Unitveristy level) as a point of pride and I enthusiastically support anyone else doing so!

“...he’s worked a real spell on Kylie”

Yeah, claiming that those of us who praise the Civil Rights movement today ignore Bayard Rustin and Richard Loving is really fucking weird and baseless. Is he trying to make the point that people don’t mention Loving because he’s white? Because I teach high school history and my students JUST did projects on Civil…

Yeah, I was excited for the concept of Man in the High Castle but the execution was just so... stupid. And I really hate the trope in films/tv where one film/tv program will make all of the difference and change the world. To me it just reads as writers writing about how important they are. WWII is full of incredible…

*Dillard, Ellie. Not Dillon. #saytheuniversityname

But my point is that they weren’t. Wiki the US organization. The Panthers weren’t the first on the scene to promote the idea of Black Power (Stokely Carmichael, who changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor the African liberation movements that others have rightly mentioned as a major factor in the naming trend, is…

That doesn’t quite sound accurate. I’m not an expert but the Panthers mostly had names like Fred, Kathleen, Elaine, etc and they didn’t seem to fetishize all things African to the extent that their political competition, the cultural nationalists led by Ron Karenga and US did. Th naming trend is definitely the product…

So true #freebresha