It must be that some of them got busted and sent to some black sites (prisons) and the fear drove the others underground to Scaredytown!

“It’s not just about the moment you’re in...you have to play the long game.”

Thank you for this research! I have confidence in Cummings’s intellect, wisdom and experience - and I heard the first few minutes of the hearing where in he laid down what WAS going to happen that day so masterfully! I admit to being puzzled as to why he didn’t seem to get the theatrics of racist hypocrisy - I mean…

No I don’t. But I realized my enthusiasm here means I really do need to start dating again... 

Get Outta my brain!! I was wondering the same thing! I had hoped they’d be the subversive righters of wrongs we needed but haven’t heard anything from them in forever!

See, I understand Chequita and refuse to condemn her! I.LOVE.CRAB.LEGS!! King Crab especially but I eat Snow Crab regularly too! The sweet, salty succulence wrestled from its prickly exterior and stockpiled to marinate in heated garlic butter goodness until a huge mouthful is collected can produce almost ORGASMIC spasm…

I hate the internalized hatred Black people have for our hair and all the negative words we use so regularly to describe it! We should make a concerted effort to think of it and talk to children about it in magical terms!

Excellent practical advice for the average white person to think about, meditate on and make into tshirts!

Don’t you get tired of white people always throwing their women in our face using adjectives like beautiful, graceful and charming when we can see with our eyes they’re just monsters in makeup, hair and outfits?! She looks just like her father but she’s slim and that’s why his narcissistic ass wants to have sex with…

I’ll hazard a guess that the only Black women in his pics are relatives too. 

The First Ostrich has a license to steal and somehow wants her uninformed opinions validated by respect. I think I have a lot of profound things to say; but I ain’t on Twitter cuz I don’t wanna find out I’m wrong from millions of people within seconds! You'd think she'd learn!

I love this show! I absolutely love the thoughtfulness they put into their choices! And Ruby and Earl are just brilliant - everybody knows someone exactly like them! In fact, my neighbor two doors down walks his wife’s tiny dog wearing the same kind of two-piece set with the exact same kind of hat and the exact jauntin…

How adorably beautiful is that little girl?!?! 

I’d harmonize with you on this! I love Pat Benatar, Billy Idol and honestly, Stevie Nicks dukes it out with my vocal twin and hometown sister Anita Baker as the Number One Singer of My Heart, winning 50% of the time!

Hey Nineteen?! No, we can’t talk at all!

I’ll admit this: I love men’s cologne. Love it! From Old Spice and Drakkar to the expensive Bleu and almost all the other designer fragrances. I can’t really name a men’s cologne I don’t like. If I smell it, I’m drawn toward the source. If, dear Lord, the source has a fresh haircut, lined up beard, really nice, smooth…

You fleshed that out a little more and we agree. But will you agree that it’s not just me ‘misunderstanding’ the typical usage but that many, many people are using the phrase to push back against any and all criticism about any and all of the stupid, funky shit we do?

“No black woman in America is as creative with her hair than a sista from The D...We are the only people in a city with a 35 percent poverty rate who can step out on the block in fur coat and...”

I appreciate your intelligently worded opinion but I’m missing your point and don’t think you’re understanding my dislike of the concept of respectability politics. The funeral hoochies, if they’d had the vocabulary, would have absolutely called me a woman-hating scold, trying to repress their gender and sexual…

A documentary has to be the best way to tell this story; especially with the cooperation of the actual people who used it, the proprietors of the Black establishments, etc. I’d even appreciate one or two white upholders of segregation telling us the inside how’s and whys segregation played out...(sic) who am I…