They really do. It’s ridiculous. Like I have relatives who have had their afros since the 60s and never looked back.

Actually Solange’s real hair is an afro. She just wears a lot of wigs to mix it up. You all have no idea how we do our hair or what it looks like (or who is wearing a wig and when) This is her real hair. This is the same hair Blue Ivy has, and what Beyonce has under her 10,000 wigs.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with occasionally straightening hair. The problem is the idea that it looks better when straight as opposed to just a different look, and I’m not here for WP criticizing our styling options straight or natural. WW bleach their hair and use flat irons, hot curlers, and curling…

Your parents hair wasn’t horrible. But white people are really bad at dealing with thick, curly hair. I’ve seen many white ppl with hair that I could do really easily, b/c it’s a less tightly curled version of my own, and I marvel at how NO ONE has figured it out (I can remember in college being horrified what some of…

But if you raised your hand to say “I’m a doctor” pretty sure they wouldn’t say “no you aren’t silly”...that’s the difference when you are black. I get asked “if I’m serious” anytime I tell white people where I went to college. Then they want to know ‘if I got a scholarship’. There are a million ways our presence gets…

Once you hit puberty any small kids near you as a black teen will be assumed to be yours. It’s disgusting.

True. I was shopping in the store yesterday. Saturday afternoon. Snooty perfume store. The associate who was helping me asked me if I worked in the mall. White people won’t get the subtext of that but I just stared at her and said no. Since it caught me off guard, I didn’t get in the “Why would you assume that the…

I went to med school for 2 years before dropping out. Did some basic patient care and would NEVER volunteer to help with anything medically related

the only time I witnessed a medical emergency on the plane (it was a man next to me who asked me if I had anything for an upset stomach b/c he thought he’d “overdone it” in Peru), they most definitely did not ask for anything when a doctor volunteered. We wound up making an emergency landing in Mexico to get him to a…

It’s pretty common for people to pretend that as a black person you don’t know what words mean or are delusional about what your actual job and education are.

Pretty sure the OP was talking about people who don’t eat gluten b/c they see it as a vague health trend that they don’t actually know the benefits of, not a person with a real intolerance or allergy who has to omit it for survival. I know people who don’t have celiac and aren’t gluten intolerant who will get in…

Possibly thanks to centuries of rape, a lot of Black Americans do just fine w/ dairy and don’t need to avoid it, since a lot of us black ppl that you’d call 100% black are actually 20-40% European ancestry too.

This is why you should ignore stranger’s diet advice from the internet. Lactose levels vary among different kinds of cheeses, correlating roughly from low levels in hard cheese to higher levels in the soft ones. And I’m seeing more lactose free milk and even half and half for example. Don’t know how it tastes, but if…

Soy has the hormones issue and the other milks all are heavily processed and made of nuts that some kids might have allergies too. Not sure how fake milk that uses too much water and usu. a lot of sugar is “better” for anyone.

Me and my black drinks milk every skin is so nice, glowy, and flawless that the girls trying to sell skin products in the store tend to pull me aside and ask me what I use.

Blanket generalizations that ignore individual’s needs or intolerances are harmful, and you just did the passive “Blacks and Asians can’t process lactose.” Pretty sure people who are lactose intolerant know it, but my black skin is quite perfect and I drink copious amounts of milk, b/c I am not lactose intolerant. The…

I know people who swallow so many microagressions from white people at work and even outside because of the fact that we get punished and labeled in a hot minute. I know I hope to be consistently passive aggressive when faced with some of it (so looking puzzled and asking what the slang words mean, or asking questions…

I dunno...he’s kind of a unmotivated millenial type guy and I think that at that age, that dynamic doesn’t feel like some kind of stereotype about black people/black men so much as what happens when a black woman who has her act together and might be ready for marriage has the also college educated boyfriend(who…

This must be her bedtime makeup look. I don’t know how anyone is calling that barefaced.

I’m loling at the idea that she naturally has a cut crease and smoked out lower lid around her eyes.