They love to erase us as much as the assholes who made this film though. White ppl come late to the party on everything and think they are first to arrive and know everything.

Google.

Malcolm X was a light skinned man with light eyes but that wasn’t integral to his identity as a black man for a bunch of reasons I don’t feel like explaining to you. Also, they didn’t add body paint or contact lenses to Denzel which would have been a different kind of unnecessary egregiousness since skin color is…

This isn’t really your issue to have an opinion on, and certainly not in the condescending manner in which you have done so.

No white boy. Stay in your lane.

This. He is at peakness whiteness and is also ignoring the fact that Kara is a black woman and well within her lane to talk about this issue, unlike him.

We don’t need you to understand shit. Keep whiting though.

You claim to be listening yet you started a thread to suggest that black people have no right to be bothered by blackface, colorism, and erasure. That’s very white man of you.

I don’t like her but it’s cute how WW give her a pass on her misogynoir, of course I’d expect nothing less from them or Jezebel.

Because her husband played the saxophone on Arsenio Hall and apparently lulled us all into ignoring that he passed a serious of policies that did nothing but disproportionately black people for crack as opposed to white ppl who had cocaine, among other horrible policies.

Pretty much.

But you kind of ARE defending you. Just b/c you opened up with “I’m not defending him” doesn’t mean you didn’t do it. You just did the equivalent of “not to be racist” followed by racist bullshit or “not to be mean” followed by mean bullshit. And I’d call his humor beyond “unkind” but it’s kind of easy to minimize it…

Ppl throw the ungrateful card as black ppl a lot. You know, we are supposed to be happy not to be stuck on the welfare thanks to the grace of our benevolent white employers.

Its’ funny you believe it but can tell you that if you were there recently, they only smoke a FRACTION as much as they did 10 years ago. I had one trip where a friend who has asthma but who almost never uses an inhaler in the US was in distress within about 2 days b/c smoke was wafting everywhere. We opened our window…

Bwahahahahaha...don’t most of them usually get a B/B- male star as a mate during those days too?

Do people know this is how people have purchased used goods for ages? Like before the internet, you advertised used furniture, cars, clothes, etc in the newspaper and you’d go to the home to look at it and buy it.

Also tiresome that we get called ugly that gets called beautiful when white women get injections or surgery to imitate it.

Seriously. Given the way the blue wall of silence works, the fact that this man was a)fired and b)convicted for crimes against poor black woman and a black teen speaks volumes, whether people want to admit it or not. I certainly expected him to walk. Not b/c of innocence, but b/c of privilege.

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I think I saw a Tweet that he looked like Taylor Swift’s pet hobbit.