‘...I look the devil right in the eye and smirk.”

“..he showed up at my house unexpected and got mad because I wouldn’t open the door.”

You are so brilliant with this, and it gives me hope for our future. My parents also internalized some of the colonial madness/mentality, and the colorism involved. A black man hooking up with a light-skin woman was a big deal within some families, but a light/brown skin woman going for a darker skin man was almost a…

“meat off a truck”? Much much too chancy.

OMG, your dating spectrum does not specifically include Caribbean/West Indian men? What are we, chopped liver?

I’m sorry, but her personality suggests she’s gonna date/choose a white guy. And i’m pretty certain the producers have caught on to that profile.

Your observation (“I was not really black”) about West Indian kids took me aback, but I believe it in the context you’ve presented. Historically though, West Indians carried a colonial mentality which made our parents deny their blackness. It was not uncommon for previous West Indian generations to have a certain…

I agree! If there’s one person in media who knows how to expose the insanity of the Trumpsters, it’s Stephen.. he gets it - and cracks you up in the process!

What the heck is he responding too? Jackson didn’t question his blackness, he was making a point about unique experiences in the Black diaspora and how it affects our approaches to certain things - putting it in the context of the games Hollywood play regarding race and casting. I share a Caribbean heritage but that…

LOL, how many more years do we have of this?

Going natural is also a healthier approach... much much much less chemicals for the system to process and fight against..

Great story...YES!

“We need to love ourselves as we are..” Of course! And it’s because we’ve been taught to despise so much of ourselves that we end up in these ridiculous situations. I’ve noticed at least 3 boycott attempts at similar stores that flopped miserably.. too many black women keep patronizing these stores that hold them in…

he should be arrested and she should get a good lawyer..

she is so brilliant at denying truth and reality that it’s fascinating to watch.. by now she knows what the audience expects and is having a great time feeding us bullshit.. A whole chunk of white America is Kellyanne.. they made Trump president.

The fascist Geert Wilders launched his campaign to lead Holland by claiming “Moroccan scum” were making Dutch streets unsafe; he is now being embraced by many in the republican party. No surprise at all.

every day you wake up there’s new madness with the fascists..

Great article! Though not mentioned, I can only imagine the sexual violence she was subjected to. Interesting that most of her biographies are written by white women - hmm. Also interesting that the feminist label was not projected onto Harriet Tubman in this piece. She was an authentic Black freedom fighter and…

missed it...thank you!

it is true.. her name is Cynthia Erivo and she ‘s set to play Harriet Tubman in a new biopic. Well I guess there are no talented African-American actresses to carry Tubman’s story. How crazy!