Who the fuck is still checking for R. Kelly?

You so wrong for this!!!!

I agree that Viola would have been a better choice. I do not believe the producers would have seen it that way.

Nope. Viola was still not even viewed as remotely sexy at that point. She was an “Everyblackwoman” in Hollywood (which she has spoken about). She brought to mind sensible shoes and a long suffering dignity. She didn’t get sultry until Shonda got a hold of her.

They cast it three years ago, Uzo wasn’t a star and Viola was coming out of her obligatory “humble black woman” guestspots on Law and Order. Saldana was the hottest brown commodity in film and they probably thought they had a coup when they got her. Too bad that had to reverse engineer a kinky headed, wide-nosed,…

Did the production team try to book Jennifer Lawrence first and settled on Saldana? I’m truly trying to figure this casting choice out.

Chris “There’s a difference between black people and niggers” Rock is such an embarrassment sometimes. Rock makes jokes for white folks. He “keeps it real” for whitefolks. Even his “hit-em-where-it-hurts” is just a love tap for his ol’ pals. They wait for the gentle ribbing, knowing that it comes from a dear friend.…

I just had my otherwise sweet, smart redheaded sophomore actually say the words, “Well, at least he says what he’s thinking,” in regards to his family’s support of Trump. Not a lick of evaluative critique into WHAT the dude is thinking and saying, just some knee-jerk welcoming of “straight shooting”. He get it from…

“Every time someone mentions Irish slaves” you tell them to hush. The conquistadors and colonists tried to indenture and enslave whoever they could at some point. Experimentally. Didn’t work with the indigenous folk, who were susceptible to their diseases or could simply leave into the vastness of their own damn land.…

I don’t. I think he’s good for us. I’ve taught high school for two decades and see “Idiocracy” in our future. Willful ignorance, myopia and a willingness to distort established truths (“What about all the Irish slaves?!”) have been growing by leaps and bounds in the last decade. It astonishes me. My only succor is the…

There is very little point. It is the height of privilege to always view yourself as heroic: the allies, not the nazis; the spunky abolitionist, not the oblivious belle on the veranda; the rebel alliance, not the Empire. They KILL me with that bullshit. Atticus is fiction. And even in his fictionality, he was only…

It’s a bunch of WHITEFOLKS’ reference point as to how America should behave. Atticus is their ahead of his time, progressive hero. Didn’t you see the black people stand for him at the end of the movie? THEY’DA been Atticus back then, they swear. Or at least Scout...