This sounds adapted from white people who push the idea that slavery wasn’t so bad because spirituals and happy dancing slaves

Not just white dudes. See Roseanne.

This is sound “at least I didn’t rape/ lynch/kill you” type of logic from a guy so immersed in patriarchy that I don’t know that he even knows right from wrong in this kind of situation. Asserting their power while being a gentleman is above and beyond the call of duty and more than the object of their offense is…

I think I understand that this is a bad law and the judge was finding in accordance with it. My question is why wouldn’t the DA let this be pled down from this felony charge? I assume the answer is to get the conviction because that is what was actually important to him or her. Prosecutorial discretion screws a lot of…

How many houses are their in Waco? I mean how many seasons can these redesigns go on?

I thought about that too. Ha.

I will be forever grateful to my second grade teacher for giving me the gift that is The Carpenters during free time. She brought in all of her Carpenters records (yes, I’m old) and let me listen to them every free chance we got once she realized she realized I loved them.

When I started watching and saw her I thought, “Now there’s a Bitch who has unknowingly been served a lot of shit tainted pies by the ‘Help’”

I go on a little rant about poop diamonds every time I see the commercial. My husband chuckles and rolls his eyes. Glad to hear others feel the same way about those crappy “jewels”.

Absolutely all of what you said. Also, to the group this is a totally reasonable statement that answers all questions. So, if/when journalists or concerned family members continue to pursue additional information, it is interpreted by the leaders and those within the group as persecution sent from “the pit of hell” to…

Also, I have some experience with this kind of thing... A lot of times people in power in groups like this will receive a “prophecy” from god that you are doing x, y or z. They deliver the “prophecy” in front of others in the group acting on information they have been given when someone ratted you out or just playing…

Please put this on a billboard for Black baby boomers. My mom and other family members were appalled that I started wearing sunscreen as a teenager. It was a sign that I had issues about getting darker and/or wanted to blend in more with my white friends.

I have a dark skin tone and swear by Supergoop. They have a serum that I use on my face and neck. They make a shea butter lotion with SPF 40 and I use their general sunscreen when I will be outside for long periods (SPF 50). It’s the only company I’ve found whose products truly blend into my skin and don’t leave a…

I absolutely identify with the look on that black model’s face though. It’s the frozen, what-the-fuck-is-happening face you make when you are trying to mask your embarrassment while the object of “white girl” tomfoolery and stifle any resemblance to a stereotype.

I felt so many things while watching this clip. But, the main thing I saw was myself growing up in an almost almost all-white environment as the only brown face in the “popular” cliche wearing a frozen smilish expression pretending whatever white girl fuckery being committed on my person was as funny to me as it was…

She’s completely elated that she now has someone to help fund her golden years and is no longer worried about freezing her ass of in Casa de Sonja.

If any of you ever catch the show Being Mary Jane, he also plays Gabrielle Union’s younger brother.

So “generational curse” is a Pentecostal/Evangelical term I have always found disturbing because it can be used as a tool by people like “R” to perpetuate the cycle of abuse. Whether valid or not, it is intended as a way to explain negative behaviors that are visited on perpetual generations of a family. For example,…

1. I don’t have “messaging”.

Agreed. But, any discussion of a reality show will entail some amount of speculation. That is part of the point.