When I was 17, I asked my barber to spray some oil sheen in my hair after the cut and he told me in the most threatening tone not to ever ask him to do some gay shit like that. I’ve been to barbershops across the country and the homophobia and toxic masculinity always jumps out.
Talib Kweli has been harrasing Maya Monroe, a Black woman half his age, for 3 god damn days all because his reading comprehension level is nowhere near as high as his raps lead us to believe. He needs to go.
Every conversation in a barbershop usually reinforces toxic cishet male tropes. So if a cishet man like myself can feel uncomfortable at times, can you imagine how unsafe gay people would feel in those environments?
Black American culture is one of the richest and most diverse on planet fucking earth. From the Gullah and the Geechee to the Creole and all the many dialects and traditions spread about the country. Just because others treat it like a Walmart bin doesn't mean it has no value.
In the year of our lord and savior 2018, the word 'de-ghettoise' oozed out of a white man's lips and he didn't even flinch. As if the Black experience and Black art are subpar and must be gentrified in order to be elevated and considered 'real art'. Wow, the racist jumped out.
Hello. It is day 35 and Talib Kweli is still posting about me on Instagram gaslighting me and lying about our encounter. His followers still will not leave me alone on Instagram and other social media platforms.
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Awkwafina's blaccent has been bugging me for a while. I don't get why this is so hard to understand for Akilah. But I guess people become so obtuse when it's time criticize their faves. Plus I don't care where tf non black people grow up, don't mean they get to imitate us.
Megan, Kashdoll, Tierra Whack, Rapsody, Nikki and Cardi all have different experiences, philosophies, flows and artistic expression esp in regards to ownership of their bodies and winning in a system trying to crush them. But you'd actually have to listen to women to know that.
A 2017 study found that 90% of cookbooks about Chinese and Indian cuisines listed in the NYT’s database were written by white people. (via
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I'm so tired of white people racesplaining racism to me. I'm not going to allow the person who benefits from racism to explain to me what it is when I'm the one being oppressed by it.
Black women have been fighting white feminism since (and long before) Ida B. Wells was going against Frances E Willard’s racist ass and you have the audacity to say they got their ideology from them??
Just a reminder that a woman cannot go to another state and have an abortion.
She will come back to the heartbeat state and still be procecuted under the law.
Thus, making her body, property of the state....Let that sink in deep. Your body, their choice
#MyBodyMyChoice
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I don't know but I'm so tired of them. I feel like these critics need to be tested before they can speak on Black films. Or just get more Black critics
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Damn! Mention colorism and it got husband and wife in your mentions on shifts! It’s been half a day and they still speaking on this??? I’m sorry Maya
The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world's most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared -- and experts want to know why
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I wrote a pilot called Lazar about a Black female doctor who passes as white in order to do her job during the typhoid pandemic in 1907, New York. Her first patient is Typhoid Mary.
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His loudest supporters were Black women when came out about his assault. And as soon as a Black woman needs his support, he shows his true colors. I’m tired.
Yo I'm first gen but I have to disagree. Black American culture is so rich and vast, the world tries their best to emulate it but never can. From traditions and folklore to beliefs, food and music, there's so much bruh. It's not just based on oppression, but expressions of living
Being African American of slave decent we really don’t have a culture.
You don’t realize this until you’re around other cultures. Our “culture” is fully based on oppression.