Southern culture is black culture food music etc. That white people stole from black southerns/slaves, watered down and now claim thay they are the creators

They celebrate being African-American, which is its own culture distinct from Ivorian (not Ivory Coastian) or Ghanaian or Zimbabwean. As others have pointed out, one key aspect of black life in America is the erasure of previous cultural traditions through slavery, oppression, and Jim Crow. Unlike, say,…

I feel like there's probably a lot of overlap between these assholes and the ones that feel that Christians are a persecuted class in America. Not being able to oppress other people in the full range of ways you like is not the same as being oppressed yourself. These people all need to get a fucking grip.

Yeah, I was saying the same thing. A sign of privilege is that you don’t have to settle for celebrating whiteness, because you have the luxury of celebrating your particular white ancestry and country of origin. Society gives nuance to their whiteness.

celebrating whiteness is when we all get together and have a race to see who is fastest/nimblest at calling the cops.

Not to mention that the reason why the vast majority of black Americans don’t celebrate being Ghanaian, Zulu, Xhosa-speaking, or whatever other granular-level identity would be comparable, is because they don’t know even one aspect of their deeper-rooted cultural heritage. Because their ancestors were torn from those…

I’ve made this argument before. They never bother to respond. I also like to point out that being “white” (at least in the US) is defined by not being non-white. There is no other useful definition. So any celebration of “whiteness” is necessarily going to be racist.

I was thinking the exact same thing. What are the main pan-white things to whitely celebrate during White Month? How conspicuous it is when we get a sunburn?

At this point, even if Trump loses, no one wins. He has giving a voice and leadership to an astonishingly large and hateful segment of your population. Its scary to watch, even from afar.

Xenophobia.

It’s just a clusterfuck altogether. Let’s even say Zoe wanted to play the darker-skinned Angela Bassett. I guess that’s okay or whatever since Angela is still “conventionally” pretty enough and has gotten her share of work (relative to other black women obvi and not nearly as much as she deserves).

I disagree. Viola would’ve been perfect because this movie, while definitely concerned with making money, is presenting itself as a “prestige” film, i.e. one that would get critical acclaim and award nominations. You don’t actually need to make that much money (see this year’s Room, Trumbo, The Big Short, Spotlight,…

I might be a broken record here, but saying the 1994 crime bill (a bill written by Biden, voted for by Sanders, and supported by significant portions of the black community) lead to mass incarceration is just bullshit. it was a part of the problem, absolutely. but that bill was a federal crime bill. the vast majority…

It’s weird walking that line as a civilian, non-celebrity person. I talk shit on here under a pseudonym, and I have a very infrequently used twitter that I use to re-tweet jokes maybe twice a year....but nothing with my name. Then, I applied to a career development workshop a couple of days ago and it asked for my…

Sure. Chris Rock could have addressed all racism in Hollywood. That would have been great.

No, other ethnicities have a history of using the rights that Black people have fought for, but then turning around and discriminating a Black people once they get to pass.

But Chris Rock is black, which is why he spoke of the black experience in Hollywood. Why are blacks expected to do the heavy lifting while other minority groups benefit from our activism then remain silent when it really counts?

Seriously. The first time I heard Uptown Funk, I initially thought it was a Morris Day song.

For background: I formally took the ACT twice (over a decade ago, so time may have taken its toll) and both times got a perfect on the reading section. This is only relevant to prove that under time constraints, my reading comprehension is significantly above the mean of college bound Americans.

I don’t know what to tell you.