I mean a lot of this also sounds like when Common and Pharrell were all over the rhetoric of “The New Black”. It’s rife with the message that some Black people believe — we’re post-racial (until it impacts their coins)—and that their ancestors did not strategically resist. That their ancestors weren’t worth shit. It’s…

Can y’all reframe and retitle this story? Reject cis-hetero and patriarchal notions of “losing virginity”? The man was raped. He was 12.

Legally, he can’t serve another consecutive term :-(

Black Lives Matter.

Thank you for this.

I think it’s because Scrubs isn’t Black tv... I don’t think we ever voted it in.

Those pursed lips are EVERYTHING. You know not to mess with your momma when does that, the same goes for Samuel L. Jackson. That’s a “Imma get you when I get home”/ “Damn, why the **** they made me do this shit” look. Tew good.

#1 - I think that the language shows that this is coming more from a point of sensitivity and personal discomfort and thus, white fragility, ie. “Shouted at.” For many, this can read as you’re putting discomfort around white privilege ahead of the issues of PoC, wether intentional or not.

Yes! As Derrick Bell and Lani Guinier said/say - interest convergence / divergence. “We” only make progress if “they” are so willing to allow “us” to.

Love this. I’m thrilled. Ecstatic.* Especially as a Black woman. I just want to also say as a Woman of Color, I can’t wait until A-listers, and these covers, also include other Women of Color (Constance Wu, you already there girl and they just don’t know it!)!

I’m not disputing the label... Like yes, there’s Black, black (the capital makes a difference), African American, African-American, Afro-American, POC, etc. ... but no matter what there’s still a label of race that People of Color are assigned.

So... even some people on here are calling this racism, or prejudice.

If we want to get specific about what “they” call themselves, then you want to look up many different ways. We can even go so far as to replace your “Native Americans” with “Indigenous peoples.” This isn’t to be catty - but just to note that not everyone knows, and in hoping to teach/offer other terms, it’s helpful to…

So, is Andy Warhol’s art a depiction of racial and ethnic cultures. Also, I think that saying one person doesn’t have/connect to their culture is a gross assumption, but is so is the assumption that SJGC was talking to all y’all.

I don’t understand what you don’t understand. I’m Black, too, and I am interested in knowing when and where I can/should step in. I’m not even a Beyonce fan, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let someone step in and lay claim to words and histories that they cannot. That’s not bitterness, that’s respect. I wouldn’t do…

Soooo, I’m kinda tired of Amy and her co-opting of everything. “You know you that bitch” Like, Amy, not only are you code-switching for the sake of being “down” but Formation wasn’t about you (or Goldie or Joan). For those who said Amy lost them - you gotta interrogate why she had y’all in the first place.

YES/ damnnn. Love that you took it there. You can’t always tell the class of your fellow pinteresters. Now I can. It opens worlds...or at least gives you a window.

I cried while watching that moment. You could see in Joe’s eyes that he was genuinely conflicted about his daughter’s sadness. It also breaks my heart that they call her fat.

Thanks for sharing this. It happened to me in undergrad and again in grad school. In my grad program there were 2 POCs out of 32+ people. I was one of them. This was also in NYC. It baffles me that people still believe this is a rarity. That people do not believe that microagressions impact you emotionally, mentally,…

I’m going to go ahead and posit, especially from personal experience, that segregation, class, and race (and the intersections of it all) have a ton to do with the drop off from university to graduate school. Also, perceptions of graduate school being lesser-than compared law and med school is something that many POC…