“My wife thinks (most) white people are just unable or unwilling to find any distinctions with black people’s faces. That they just see the similarities with our hair, our beards and our complexions, but what we actually look like just doesn’t register.”

You’re comparing the 10% of rappers that we now remember as legends from the old school with 100% of people on the radio right now. There were trash rappers in the 1980s; there we’re one-hit wonders; and there were definitely girls shaking their asses (and rappers making music about them). We just don’t remember them…

Here we go...the “more old school than thou” convos!

In fact, if the percentage of HBCUs with low graduationrates is the same as the percentage of all institutions, that would actually imply that HBCUs are doing better than PWIs with what they have - since HBCUs overall are more poorly funded and admit students who on average are less likely to graduate from college…

Literally no one is saying that, though. No one is even implying that.

Oh look, someone who understands statistical interpretation and context! Signed, a quantitative psychologist who is also an HBCU grad

Not everything is available on-demand. There are still some channels and shows that aren’t available on a regular streaming service, and some of them delay their availability by a season or by several episodes.

This is a very specific type of Brooklyn house party, thrown by the newer annoying Brooklynites who live in Williamsburg or Greenpoint. My friends who live in Brooklyn live in Flatbush, Crown Heights or Bed Stuy...verrrrry different kind of houseparty.

The real conversation is not comapring absolute percentages without context, but asking this question: do HBCUs graduate more, the same, or fewer graduates than would be expected given the number of low-income students they have admitted? And, also importantly, how do they compare to similar PWIs in this regard?…

I feel like you can’t be annoyed at someone snapping a pic of you when you sitting front row at the Grammys. Especially when your child is adorably chowing down in the front row at the Grammys.

And we’re sure showing that when Mo’Nique is looking for the support of black people that we won’t give it to her.

That is the POINT of this discussion. Why do people think that Amy Schumer is worth $13 million when Mo’Nique is only worth $500K (and Wanda Sykes only $250K)? Why do people think that Mo’Nique should’ve slunk off and gone some where else - or just accepted whatever Netflix gave her and be grateful - when if a white…

That’s easy for men to say. Women are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Quite literally: research shows that women who negotiate are often perceived as “bitchy” and difficult to work with before they even start the job. Men don’t pay the same tax.

Maybe she didn’t have realistic expectations, but $500K to Amy Schumer’s $13 million is insane. That’s about 4% of Amy Schumer’s take. Mo’Nique may have been out of the spotlight in the last few years, but her body of work goes back to 1987. She was a Queen of Comedy. She’s hosted multiple awards shows. She’s done…

All of this, and honesty I can’t even understand why people would want to take cell phone photos at these places anyway. Just for a few hours, be in the moment and experience the exhibit/place without interruptions, damn.

Uh, Chris Brown would’ve been 17 or 18 in 2007...ew.

Or maybe people do the easy, short term tasks in the morning between 9 and 11 and check those off then, and save deeper tasks for after lunch.

I need to start watching This Is Us again. I watched the first couple episodes and cheered when I found out Randall was married to a black woman.

Mmph, you have to meet the right white man. I have a white friend who’s into craft beer. Best recommendations ever. I didn’t even like beer before I started hanging out with him and now I can figure out from menus exactly which beer in each subtype I’d probably like.

I’ve seen an exception...I got a white friend whose looks and technique and interaction style with her kid reminds me of a black momma so much it’s kind of scary (in a good way). “FirstName MiddleName,”, a look that will stop her kid dead cold, kid even calls all adults “Miss/Mr. FirstName” (which is not something…