All granted, and I retract the sigh (which I made primarily because I was being asked to justify a kind of throw-away comment with a serious response). Then I responded to your "I have no idea what you are talking about" instead of rereading the thread to remind myself why I said what I said in the first place. I am…

Instead of reporting on the designer of the dress and jewelry that 95% of us can't afford. I'd rather know what make up she is wearing. Especially her lip stick. Give me something useful.

Nah, Kidada was engaged to Tupac at the time of his death.

Nope, that's totally on census records. "Caucasian," "African American," "Hispanic," "Asian", "Dated Tupac." :)

Sighhhhh.

Weeeelllll... to pick nits... Caucasian *could* be considered a super-ethnic category, though not one that most people who call themselves Caucasian would be likely to be able to identify.

Yes, little known fact: dark people tan.

It depends on where you want to pitch the distinctions I suppose, but, yes, "white" might be better than "caucasian". Not least because I doubt that many would routinely make more precise distinctions than "black", "asian" and "hispanic".

I'm sure he didn't have an accent either.

Well Caucasian is a very broad racial category, but yeah white people have ethnic groups too, just here in America they got all mixed up so much that people can't tell the difference anymore.

When I was in college, I had a sociology professor who swore that white people had no ethnicity. That is was impossible. That everyone had an ethnicity except white people. That the very definition of having ethnicity meant that you weren't white. It was so odd.

Okay. I've rewatched the beginning part where he says "Me too" and rolls his eyes about 5 times. In what universe is that okay? I can't figure out how this guy has a job speaking on television. What an asshole.

How does an "entertainment reporter" not know that her father is Quincy Jones!?

Hello! *waves* I always get a kick out of seeing other Barbadian (or half Barbadian) folk on Jez. Also, I did my PhD in Edinburgh and, weather notwithstanding, Scotland is my favourite place in the world after Barbados. I'm not even kidding. I miss it a lot.

Just when I was grumbling about how pale I was to myself (I'm half Barbadian, half Scottish and used to work on a cruise ship that went round the Caribbean providing me with much vitamin D that my home country fails to)! My, she handed it well!

I remember when I was at my aunt's wedding and some old lady criticized me for having tan lines, and was all like, "Next time you tan, you should take your straps down so it looks even!" I didn't say anything, but I was thinking, "Lady, I'm a 12-year-old Hispanic nerd, I don't give a shit about tan lines. All I have…

But like...the dum-dum knew who Rashida was...so surely she's seen what she looks like before? I mean Rashida's skintone isn't any darker than normal here, so WTF is wrong with that lady?

LOL holy shit, this is the epitome of cringe-worthy. But it reminds me of how white girls at school would tell me they were going to lay out all summer to get as tan as me (a Mexican.) Then they'd come back pink and orange.

1) These ding dongs need different jobs. Quiet jobs.

she did it amazingly well. a no-shit attitude + very smooth. I think now I know how to react to stupid racist people who think it's funny to make jokes about my name because it's "soooooo exooootic".