People hate on music festivals but stuff like this is why I go. I had a similar experience seeing Paul McCartney at Bonnaroo a few years ago. Cry/laughing and laugh/crying were the only things anyone in that crowd of 80 000 people were doing.

I get it, but that’s why, as an adult, you say: “I’m not an authority on this so I’m not going to answer the question.”

Yep. Similarly:

I think, in this situation, we expect it because she spoke about it. I can’t account for other situations because she’s really not my cup of tea so I don’t follow her career all that much, but in this case SHE’S specifically speaking about America. Even if the interviewer outright asked her opinion, she could have…

Recently I was at a hotel and the bartender was from Sri Lanka. I asked him his opinion of MIA and her politics since she’s from Sri Lanka and has made it big here with her politically charged music. He said that he and many other people in Sri Lanka dislike her, and that the Tamil Tigers, an organization her father…

We just get lip service in the hope that we will pipe down and go away. Nobody really wants to discuss the plight of blacks in this country because that would mean a lot of our “allies” would have to confront their privilege that think thing they don’t have.

Yes, she has, so I know she can do that without shitting on Black people. And I wish she would.

Is she organizing something? Even starting a hashtag campaign? ‘Cuz all I see her doing is the usual complaining and throwing Black people under the bus for speaking up for ourselves and lamenting that her group isn’t as visible, as if we have something to do with that. Again, no one is stopping her or any prominent…

Omg, I hate people like that. I put one of those signs on my apartment door that says “In case of fire, there is/are_ pet(s) inside” and you put the number next to the type of pet. My supremely ignorant and small-minded ex-sister-in-law said something like “But they shouldn’t be saving animals before people.” I…

Then those concerned should OPEN UP THEIR MOUTHS AND SAY SOMETHING. No one is stopping them.

I just googled her and apparently she is 40

oh my god, that person #alllivesmatter’d you about DOGS

What is particularly odd to me is that this attitude is really different from what happened during the wave of radical identity politics in the 60s and 70s. The prominent response to African American civil rights movements from other groups was not “why aren’t they talking about us too?” but “cool, now we need to take…

Non-black POC need to stop expecting black Americans to stand up for their plights and causes when they never show their fucking faces when something is going on for us. Nor do they combat anti-black American biases within their own communities.

Yes—this. Mostly/sort of related, I went to a charity event (sort of—I paid $10 cover for a bar and the money went to a pit bull charity) and my boyfriend bought me a t-shirt that has the charity name on it. Someone actually got mad at me that I would buy a t-shirt from this charity that doesn’t help ALL dogs. Like,…

I just googled her and apparently she is 40 so a) she should be a little better at controlling what comes out of her mouth at this point and b) she looks like a teenager and I do not understand.

I like M.I.A., but she makes it really hard for me to sustain that like sometimes. She’s every upper-middle class academic type I’ve ever known whose belief system is conceptually right, but who is blithely unaware of how tall the ivory tower that they live in is.

I have to admit, I was surprised when a grassroots BLM protest in Ferguson seemed to spontaneously erupt in a “2-4-6-8/Pakistani Lives Are Not That Great!” chant

So, more of the usual from non-Black POC : Somehow blaming us for being a hypervisible minority and acting like we are the ones that have any kind of control over their visibility and issues. (While of course remaining silent on the subject of the rampant anti-Black racism within their own group. Of course.)