I speak whenever the fuck I want to. And no, I don’t think my argument is shit. I think you are. And thus, this will be my last response to you. Have fun wasting your time writing a reply to feel like you “won.”

Yeah, I give up on you. Shouldn’t have even bothered to engage.

Wrote a whole thing but you know what, why bother? You clearly don’t listen to the community affected and have chosen your hill to die on. This isn’t a discussion but you parroting back whatever talking point you’ve heard and decided is your own.

which makes Rock’s decision to go with that joke (that he didn’t even write himself) even more thoughtless, since he made a documentary called Good Hair, which was all about the bs Black Women go thru due to their hair, mostly racism & white beauty standards.

I think the problem is that we just don’t engage in nuance anymore. We don’t let things be complicated, or appreciate that they are.

It’s contextual.

I think we (I am white) can, but we have to be careful because we can, in our seemingly infinite ignorance, say something shortsighted and racist real quick without realizing it (or hell, maybe we would realize it and not care.) Another concern I have is the Oscars quite literally just made their first real attempt at…

The “Boo-Hoo” probably refers to the part where you started super strong then fumbled by making sure people know that alopecia affects “all lives”, showing sympathy for the white people that might be cut out of a conversation about alopacia, in which frankly this thread is not about. (As you initially noted, the…

I’ve been thinking about this myself in the days since, and here’s where I’ve landed (full disclosure: I’m at work, so I’ve not watched the video above, so I don’t know if SJP covered this already):

If white people consume a particular Something, then it’s inevitable that they’ll consume, process and broadcast the…

There are a LOT of excellent posts/articles/essays that answer your question. I recommend Roxane Gay’s essay, which you can find on her Twitter. The fact that you haven’t found the answer to your question all over social media makes me think you don’t follow a lot of Black and brown people who talk about race, which…

This is such vague passive aggressiveness that I can’t even tell which part of what I said got under your skin. You either think Black women make this too much of a big deal or people with alopecia don’t matter in this conversation. Either way - weird thing to feel bothered about.

We don’t need white people in ALL of our conversations. When we want to hear from you, we will ask. In the meantime, leave us alone.

I believe it has to do with the fact that Black women have endured too much for us to understand what that moment was like for Jada and Will.

I can tell from a lot of the commentary about this that a lot of people have not experienced the joy of watching folks pop off at a family reunion.

Shut up dude.

Yeah, I’m sure they haven’t interacted at all in seven years.

I actually have no beef with the Instagram apology and even if his publicist did write it, it takes responsibility for his actions. It was a public fuck up and it’s a decent public apology.

I am in no way saying what he did was right. But that joke about his wife was pretty awful and in poor taste.

Love the effort Megan and Dua are putting in there, but the song just didn’t land for me at all. Disappointing given they’ve both put out so many amazing tracks in the last couple of years!

Exactly.  Her telling regular people to “work” is like her shitty half-sister claiming to be “self-made”.