“the worst stereotypes attached to Blackness, will be ascribed to your dark-skinned child, no matter how talented, hard-working or intelligent they are “

Tell me about it! Being a child of Somalis, I always heard I shouldn’t be like them. The worst thing was that my sisters always straightened their hair, my mom bleached her skin and they all hated that I was friends with Jamaican girls. Sigh, sometimes this colourist shit gets tiring.

It’s irrelevant what term you would use. You can call it whatever you want for your own purposes. But, for the purposes of this discussion (in which we are specifically talking about Zoe Saldana portraying Nina Simone on the big screen) it should be obvious what we mean when we use the terms “light-skinned” and…

it’s like you are the Oraje. The Dutch National Football team. All the hope and respect of how good you are in the world leading up to the world Cup. The talent, the coach, the right strategy. Then, the internal struggle. Some veterans aren’t really happy with the flash and new way of playing by some youngsters. Some…

My skin is brown
my manner is tough
I’ll kill the first mother I see
my life has been too rough
I’m awfully bitter these days
because my parents were slaves
What do they call me
My name is PEACHES

As a dark-skinned woman, it’s so crushing to me that they so desperately needed to cast a lighter woman they opted for BLACKFACE and PROSTHETICS. While there are fine actresses who more closely resemble Simone (who also sing!!). What a long way to go to be hurtful.

compared to who?

This is the homage Nina Simone would have expected.

Nina Simone’s skin color and features were an intrinsic part of her experience as a Black woman and that was put into her art. In this instance, the way she looked was extremely important to how her character was formed, what her beliefs were, and how she expressed herself artistically. To cast a lighter-skinned…

Si, yo sé. Todos vienen de Africa, la madre. Todos no se admiten.

Some Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are Black.

Yes, they act as if those people were spineless instead of realizing how much courage it took to keep it together so you could take care of your family and community.

I don’t know if I would have made it during segregation. my mouth and passion about having my rights would have been the death of me.

I’d fire her- there’s just no excuse for that degree of technological incompetence.

Now at this point in Kyle’s story, the part of me who is the teenager who came of age in Brooklyn started bubbling up– and my hands started itching to take my earrings out and hold them while I got CRAZY.

i mean last week they did a “worst housewives kids” segment so what could be better?

is everyone listening to ‘bitch sesh’ podcast? i am obsessed with casey wilson and danielle schneider. “dorinda’s daughter is the name of my one woman show”

I am unreasonably excited about this.

LuAnn is slowly evolving more and more from a Classy Countess to a tough biker broad in a jean jacket. Here for it.