#hesaidshewasntclassicallybeautifulandmyblackasshasntforgotten

Ugh. I’m slightly disappointed with his comments. The fact is, America is racist as hell to all Black people, but Idris is acting like being British and speaking with a British accent is a point of privilege when he’s in front of casting directors. Like, whenever anyone tries to bring up different points of privilege…

Ugh. There aren’t enough Maxine Waters’ eyeroll gifs to describe how I feel about Amber Rose’s awful “choice” feminism and her colorism-addled comments. Like, we get it. She’s internalized white supremacist bullshit beliefs about beauty, and she thinks only light-skin women are traditionally attractive. Can she just…

Yeah, I agree your comment. I’m a dark-skin Black woman, and while I understand multi-racial individuals often feel marginalized with respect to being forces to “choose” how they identify, I find it interesting that they seldom acknowledge the beauty privilege they experience as women of color. If you’re part-Black,…

This article has me feeling ten certain kinds of ways, and none of it is positive. There is a huge difference between raping/sexually assaulting women and cheating on one’s spouse. Putting stories about these men in one article creates a false equivalency about bad male behavior that’s reductive and doesn’t serve your…

IA. While I understand that biracial individuals often feel erased from narratives about race, this comment is really absurd. We can never have a full conversation about the racial beauty hierarchy without someone feeling like we’re trying to erase their existence. Untrue and derailing.

It’s just you. She’s ugly on the inside and the outside.

I have learned the importance of connecting with people at my professional level outside of work, sharing my salary, and encouraging them to share theirs. No matter how progressive a workplace pretends to be, pay gaps based on race and gender exist, and as a Black woman, you can bet your ass that I will go out of my…

The patriarchy is also responsible for your husband’s last name though, and he, like most men, have never given one thought to changing it because it’s assumed that when his dad gave him that name, he’d have it for the rest of his life. Do your thing girl, do what makes you happy, but don’t forget to think about what…

Freedom of speech refers to the government and other state-sanctioned actors not being able to suppress speech they don’t like. Protesting is a form of free speech and people have the right to protest garbage events like this. Especially at UCLA, a public institution. 

How is it misogynistic to be unimpressed with a wealthy woman who wrote a book giving advice to women about leaning in, despite being in a position to tell the men she works with to lean out? That’s not misogyny, that’s “Try again, my friend.” Feminism doesn’t mean supporting women and their choice to uphold the…

I’m really sick of Black people playing dumb when other Black people bring up intra-racial issues. Yes, we are all Black (#nodolezals), but whenever Black people try to talk about the hierarchy within Blackness (the color hierarchy, the class one, the national origin one), people who have a relative amount of…

I’m sorry, but I totally disagree. It’s a terrible idea to ask young people to step into the shoes of oppressors to have them learn about history. It doesn’t help them build empathy, and depending on the socioeconomic background of the student, it might reinforce feelings of superiority and/or inferiority in the…

Or to bring it back full force.

Having children create advertisements for slaves is a terrible way of teaching the lesson that people were treated as property. It’s normalizing something the educator is trying to say is/was bad. Why not have the kids create abolitionist flyers and pamphlets? We live in a society where Black people are regarded and…

That works when you’re shooing away someone who is on your level. If you’re declining chit chat with someone above you, (e.g. a supervisor in your department or division), it can make you look bad, even though they’re interrupting you from completing the task they’ve delegated to you.

I mean, the title of this article alone should get Michael a Pulitzer. I needed to calm down from cackling to actually read it.

THIS. I don’t see color means “I have no desire to talk about the fact that your skin color has a negative impact on the way you’re treated in the world”. Please...

I do think Scandal has gotten good now that it has moved away from the tired love triangle story arc, but I am continually amazed at Olivia’s downfall as a character. She’s not a good boss, like at all. She storms into work, barks orders at people, and then locks herself in her office to brood. Also, her lack of…

Olivia also had a scene where she popped off to her dad and talked about how great her bedroom game was, and how that was her advantage over controlling these lame white dudes. Like, WTF girl. STOP YOURSELF AND GO THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE.