I hear you. I think it is because there is no liberal “village”. Almost all of my friends have kids & everything is always “fine”. By the time someone acknowledges a problem publicly or seeks help- shit is way out of control. They are all too worried about being judged, not parenting the right way.

Don’t really care. She didn’t do it and her family isn’t her.

Hard pass. I loved Aaliyah, which is precisely why I’m not interested in M.A.C. using her image to increase their market share of POC consumers.

Thank you for the clarification. It just makes me feel sick, like someone had to know something was wrong...

Hah! I’m only in church when I visit the fam and then I am quite glad to be as far away from the shyster pastor as possible.

What I don’t understand is how they had multiple run ins with CPS with no real action taken.

No, you were trying to correct me and control my dialogue with another poster. I’d already answered them, they were already out of the grays. You should have sighed & moved on.

They weren’t insulting me and I hadn’t checked their posting history. Honestly, I’ve heard this question before and didn’t read into it. BTW, my father and my brothers have all had White significant others. My uncle’s (I have 9) have been involved with a variety of ethnicities. Why would you assume all their SOs would…

I’m a regular, degular Black woman, born in this country to folks who were also born in this country. My culture is deeply rooted in the American South. Calling me “exotic” is erasure of who I obviously am, that pisses me off. Calling me racially ambiguous because of a hair weave is ignorant.

Eh, unless someone is directly insulting me - I try to answer & keep it positive. That’s just me.

It actually doesn’t bother me. I always dated inter-ethnically when I was single. I’m proud of my identity and I don’t have a problem with anyone who isn’t attracted to that. My husband is Chinese and is the only man I’ve known who really loves me au natural.

I don’t really care what other women do to make them feel beautiful and happy. You have got to feel comfortable and confident when you go out into the world- so you do you.

I’ll be the eccentric auntie racist. The one with questionable memmorbilia around the house, that she excuses as antiques or a part of our history. The one who can’t remember the “ethnic” names of your friends and calls them the “nice” White boy or girl. The one who gets crazy drunk every couple of years and goes full…

I was prepared to take you seriously, but then you listed 3 of your favorite women rappers (SMDH), so I see what you value in women who rap. Nah brah.

Actually, what we need is serious discussion in the Black community about mental health and get our folks to stop being dismissive of shit they don’t understand.

“Not In My House!”

Puhleeeeze, what love? It has never been love, it has been access and cache- on all sides. It can be useful to have a “friend” in a community that isn’t your own, but I have rarely seen mutual respect. As a Black bisexual female, I’ve seen the ugly for a long ass time. Every part of the equation should know better,…

I was bullied so I get it, but how do you expect to force inclusion? Children form friendships with some kids and not others. That is normal. You can require children to be polite, and not allow bullying- but you can’t force relationships.

To be honest, I’m not attached to gender roles, but I also don’t have animosity towards them, so how traditional my relationships function tends to depend on who I’m with.

I wish putting her away for life was a possibility. This crime was akin to child rape.