I’m no HRC fan but she’s right. If you want to see yourself and your interested reflected in politics, you need to get involved. Especially on the local level. Join a community action group or civic group, run for city council, work on campaigns for politicians you support. Do something other than wait for established…

This was an opportunity to show how diversified black people are by having a darker-skinned actress with features more similar to Simone’s playing the role. Darker skinned women with more traditionally black/African features are not exactly common place on the screen and Simone’s own experiences as a dark-skinned…

It’s fine to acknowledge that his life is ruined or even to talk about just how he went from being someone with a lot of potential to a rapist but I think the issue is with the overall poor him tone of the article. Especially considering that one of the tactics used against rape victims is to drag their reputations…

I remember hearing that and that she was supposed to be a prostitute originally.

You may not call it appropriation but there is certainly a long history of erasing or downplaying the contributions and achievements of non-white performers in music (and acting, and writing, and many sports). That’s part of the actual problem at hand. And it’s something that continues to happen - see blue-eyed soul…

This is true but, unfortunately, I don’t see that changing because there is so much else caught up in it. Race goes beyond skin color and into perceptions of ‘otherness’ - language, culture, body type, religion - so to boil it down to just ‘skin color’ totally glosses over a lot of the other baggage that goes along…

They should but this way they look like they’re really cracking down on a specific problem rather than addressing the overall culture of the BCPD.

Riding the crimson wave, going over to the communists (thanks IT Crowd), The Clench

The trick is they don’t directly try to injure someone. It just happens because, oops, forgot to secure him and oops, went over that pothole at 30mph. It’s a combination of negligence and petty maliciousness.

Technically it is. Prisoners are supposed to be properly secured. This is basically saying that there will now be consequences for doing something that you shouldn’t have been doing from the get go but that we all turned a blind eye to.

It’s all for show. It’s not like rough rides were an official policy - it’s a way for police to take a little revenge on people who give them a hard time during an arrest. According to BCPDs own policy, suspects were supposed to be properly secured anyway. This is basically saying that, from here on out the police…

Or he could be turning the joke around on Stacy Dash. Here’s a person who’s against diversity who’s basically being trotted out as an example of diversity - look, this isn’t about race and here’s another black face to prove it. If not for the whole whitewashing issue, what’s the likelihood of this particular joke ever…

As a black person who spent a good chunk of my life being told I wasn’t black enough thanks to my taste in music, clothes, and hobbies I’m going to point out that there is a difference between being told you aren’t black enough because you fail to conform to a narrow definition of what is and isn’t black and being a…

I’ve run across some vocational programs that take broken electronics for their technology courses. It takes a little bit of digging but you may be able to contact a local vocational rehab or job training program to see if they need anything. As already mentioned, there’s also electronics recycling.

I’m not engaging you in that particular discussion at all, rather your discussion of why posters who hold contrary beliefs get shut down. In my opinion, they tend to get shut down because their arguments often appear to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrary or appear to have actual racist underpinnings.…

Except that the poster you’re referring to was not really talking about the presence of white people in Egypt, at least not in our particular discussion They were specifically focused on questioning why people thought that the Egyptian gods wouldn’t be or couldn’t be white despite evidence of Egypt being a culturally…

And human bodies that range anyway from light tan/white to very brown.

This isn’t provoking discussion, it’s using specious reasoning trying to justify a primarily white cast in a movie depicting the gods of a people that were not primarily white. Provoking would be discussing similar portrayals in other mediums or whether whitewashing has negatively impacted similar movies. Or even…

Looks pretty light-skinned.

And being from the stars=white? Why wouldn’t gods resemble at least to some degree the people that worshiped and created them. Technically all gods come from the ‘stars’ (however you want to define that). By you reasoning, they don’t have to look like anything at all. They could be entirely made of energy or as…