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Young Black women are saying that they absolutely still experience high levels of colorism and Black men who simply don’t date Black women. It’s talked about online quite a bit.

One day someone is going to spill all of rat face’s tea..and it will be glorious.

Athletes too...Russell Wilson finally came to his senses. But the latest culprit?

This is a great observation. We saw it with the Black Panthers and how the men shoved the women aside, even though the early work and activism was by women - the script that BLM followed, as well, with the same outcome so far - black men taking the forefront. Same with Civil rights, with many of the men rightly

I love everything about this!

May I also add that talking about colorism to black men is like talking about racism to white people. They just don’t get it

I can’t remember where I read that, either. I know it was somewhere on Twitter, but the context escapes me—maybe after Sandra Bland?

Why would a Black man speak on behalf on all men when it’s a specific issue to us? It may not be intention but it feels like you’re moving the goal post.

I don’t think it’s inappropriate to say here “I wish a nucca would,” both in highlighting the audacity and in anticipating and encouraging the entertaining exchanges that would potentially ensue.

Let me find my seat real quick because the umar stans are coming.

Ironically, my original title was, “Gilbert Arenas Is A Fucking Idiot”..but yeah...I self-censor all damn day.

Is this the celebrity version of when a guy tries to holler at you on the street, and after you ignore him he yells you weren’t cute anyway?

Here is the problem with that argument:

the first cheat though, the first time is what we’re talking about.