Hey, friend. You write beautifully and you know it.

Thanks. I’m not saying anything nations-full of people know and say all the time. I appreciate your appreciation and hope you will continue to contribute to hard topics.

Hey thanks. It takes a village. And And a smartphone;)

Just as a lurker in this thead, I find your ability to show patience and understanding to ignorance (and I don’t mean that as a slight to the OP, he came hat in hand, wanting to understand something better and that’s commendable, even if it was maybe somewhat clumsy,: just the literal definition) to be inspiring. I’m…

I have learned more about American history in the last few months than I ever learned in school. What is taught in the US public school system is whitewashed in every sense of the word. I would advise you to really dig in to learning about early American history, the years leading up to the Civil War and the war…

Sister. Woman. Negress. My pronoun is She. My past is Pink Oil Mosturizer, my present is Queen Sugar, my future is round trip ticket to Boule. I will see you at the cookout and I will vouch for the potato salad because I will make it myself.

Good shit my (brother/sister). I’ll be seeing you at the cookout, or at Aunt Keisha’s for Thanksgiving!

It’s good of you to admit that you may not understand why something is wrong, while also accepting that it is. Many people in your similar demographic position would not make the second leap.

I know, cousin. I feel obligated to put it out there anyway, just to cuddle the ancestors.

Thanks for the explanation points.

So to summarize: White people historically behaved as barbarians. Despite the psychological torture it causes Black people, White people continue to practice barbarism and currently make costumes of our skin color to use as touchstones to relive the days when White people owned our bodies. I know you’re (rightly)…

People who wear blackface somehow don’t understand that it is wrong which is at best criminally uninformed.

So...you’re like many white Americans, then? Where the white people come from has no bearing on their racism, and to pretend it ever could is ridiculous.

It’s fake, faux ignorance. You are literally on the internet, on a site by and for black people. You have an attraction to us, our culture, our lives - so much so that you are on a computer on a black-interest site.

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Fine, I’ll bite.

“they threw something in a storm drain, I think it was a gun”

“The combined intent of the couple was to portray how funny it would be for two political figures who were at odds with each other to go to a party together,”