Bring in the Brute Squad!

Thank you, Kelly.

Still not trusting my “sisters” who nestle into the narrowly prescribed niches carved out for them by their men and join them in the exploitation of other women. Not even sure if their grandbabies will understand and accept that they’d have to give up being white ladies to actually be simply women.

I feel where you coming from. Exploitation is exploitation. Humans take advantage. It’s what we do. Which kind is worthy of outrage? The one where WE are disadvantaged. Never mind what we’re doing to anyone else at any given time.

So...not ONE of them looked around and said, “Uh...you guys...”?

Remember in The Bluest Eye when the black kids called the black girl an “ugly black e mo”? Yeah, we learned the language of self-hate from our oppressors. Blackamoor ain’t no compliment. She was trying to be slick.

They’ll be able to get a lot of mileage out of SZA being conventionally attractive. Her beauty can be sparingly art directed and her songs are superb enough that I don’t wanna see anything in the vid but her singing.

Good.

Ooh. That “purchased silence” bit was a dig, Rose.

I’ve been with my 2nd husband for 14 years. We got together when my daughter was nine. If I had found naked pix of her at age 19 in his sidetable, I’d have been in prison. Mia Farrow caught the father of her other children grooming her daughter to be his bride. It’s fucked up. Matterfack, my daughter just told me that…

Yep. She needs good representation to guide her right now. Playing the wide-eyed fostergirl just happy to be invited won’t work a year from now. She better get savvy, quick. I’m rooting for her, tho. She mines a recognizable reality for gems of humor that I, in my just-below-bougie upbringing recognize. Can’t wait…

I’ve been hitting that dismiss button non stop for two days. You can occasionally catch me slipping.

Then why not put his name on the cover? Why not drop his name on her press junket? I’ve been following her when she was just doing stand up, when she was on the Carmichael show, I was in New Orleans during EssenceFest and am, oddly enough, sitting next to a Tiffany Haddish-head church fan that they threw out to the…

Shiiiit. That’s some bs only lowkey racists suspect progressive lowkey racists think.

THAT explains it! Ugh.

So very sick of folks putting their damn hands on other people. So many of my male students listen to this son of a bitch, too. Oh and...apparently his lyrics pretty much allude to the fact that he’s trash and violent as fuck, so...

You see them “Ew, Tucker Max cooties. Now I won’t buy this book” comments? Yeah, THAT would be a great fucking reason for him to have stayed the fuck quiet about his contribution. There was a reason that his name ain’t on the cover. He WROTE the Roscoe “short story” or was that her life or a comedy bit based on her…

Jesus. Tiffany Haddish just can NOT simply have her moment, can she? Tucker Max’s name ain’t even on the cover, so why is he even trying to get shine as the co-writer right now? Bear with me...that would be like Louis C.K. bragging after a Chris Rock stand-up special, “You see that ‘I like black folks but I hate…

I called it. Look forward to men getting ahead of harassment claims with the “I am Spartacus” group repentance/absolution. Watch for #partoftheproblem and #dobetter become a trend. I already fielded a coworker’s abashed confession that he could be considered “problematic” by a few other teachers for stuff “that…

THIS!