So now that "twerking" has been co-opted by middle-class white girls it's being treated like a new invention. It's been around for a looooooooooong time, and in the 90s we just called that booty dancing.

I would like all the commenters to take a step back and realize how much they sound like the fuddy-duddy townspeople in Footloose. First of all, people, nearly ALL (good) dance is about sex in one way or another. Furthermore you may not find it to your taste, but twerking can plausibly be traced to roots in…

I can't put my finger on exactly why, but a lot of the comments here are rubbing me the wrong way. "That's not dancing!" "That's inappropriately sexual!" etc.

Those girls can't twerk worth shit lol

So, is it wrong that I feel like he's gonna die? Or he's gonna be reallllly hated by the fandom. I mean, let's be honest.

I wasn't in any way saying that "Black" can't be used — I certainly use the term as well. I was largely responding to the notion that the term African American must be discarded as it doesn't address the diversity of backgrounds here in the USA. I believe that it works in some contexts. I certainly don't believe…

this is a serious sidenote, but it was brought up in the intro paragraph.
I dislike African-American, because its away from separating me from "Americans" (the default american being a christian heterosexual angelo-saxon caucasion white male).

But that's why I like Black...my friends who parents immigrated to Canada from Barbados are Black...the African immigrants I see in France are black. I'm black and I both of my parents had great-grandparents who were not.

Blank stare at the first part of the essay. Girl, what?

I tried to ignore that part of the article because the shade was just too epic for me. To me, African American works as it encompasses all of the histories of those affected by the African Diaspora. My family is mixed up more than a margarita, but the common thread is the unmistakable African influence on my…

Oh black people in the Americas...honest question, why is everyone opposed to the idea of being called 'African'? Is this somehow related to that quote from Hotel Rwanda where the white colonel goes, " You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African." alluding to the idea that Africans are the lowest on the…

I'm "African-American" (with mixed ancestry as well)..but when people jot down every last shopping cart item of their ethnicity, "My grandfather is Chinese, the last three generations of my paternal family originate from South America, my great great grandfather was half Jewish and half Jamaican and born in Nicaragua,…

I'm a white guy and uncomfortable with the idea of shifting away from "African American" even if it's inaccurate in a lot of cases.

Also acceptable.

I think you mean nuclear horse piss.

Terrible advertising aside, Mountain Dew still tastes like radioactive garbage juice.

Have we not heard of neo-colonialism and internalization? Jesus. Who cares that they are Black and perhaps that Black folk created this ad. It was created for a mainstream audience, it plays into anti-blackness, and we're sitting here trying to possibly make sense of it by pointing out that the criminal Blacks are Odd…

I have BPI and I'd love a stay at Mclean just to get some things together and rest. Sometimes, I have a very hard time keeping it together for Mr. Honey and our kids.

Hahaha! you made me laugh in the morning, that never happens. Good one.