Well, her stuff was defaced because she locked up Thutmose III, so she could rule as pharaoh, and naturally he was upset, when he finally came to power.

Right we (black women) keep talking about featurism and people keep calling us crazy, but no we aren’t.

Tell Logic to get off the internet, and get back in the studio, to make some more of them trash songs.

And so, it has begun.

This is a word.

There are a lot of hard truths in that second thread. And I know I just said picking my battles but, welp here we go.

I saw this, and even posted on it in the kinja verse. I will say, except for a couple in the thread, I don’t think they’re trying to pose as black. I think they’re trying to be read as Mixed Sorry, Biracial. Which....I won’t speak on, because picking your battles and shit. 

Same. It’s just time for another ethnic class to become white, in the same way the polish, Italians, Irish, and Germans before them.

Yes, girl. Do not concede shit. Fuck these dizzy dipshit white men, who think they own the world.

Gather round and let me tell you a story. I’m from georgia. And one year our ain’t shit governor Nathan Deal was like, “All the brown people have to go. All of them. And if we see them jail, b/c they are taking away our jobs.”

shes a jez commentor who hates black ppl

no

Right, but what KIND of black movies? And Red Tails was released in 2012 and you don’t really see another non comedic black led film again until 2015, besides 12 years a slave (2013). Because this is part of it as well.
 

Yes. And even with the comedies it tends to be the same type of comedy. Part of why I loved, The Mis Adventures of Awkward Black Girl was because, the work scenes were reminiscent of The Office and Parks and Rec, but it was black people and people of color.

ETA: It’s not a shock that Selma, which portrayed LBJ in a negative light, got the other half of it’s financing (Oprah and Brad Pitt gave Ava half) from companies in the UK.

The problem is at the end of the day financing is in white hands. You have to convince a panel of white men, on why they should give you their money. And if you respond, I want to create positive representations of black people. They’re going to laugh in your face. Ultimately they get to decide what’s happening to…

Yeah, Angelica Jade Bastien had an article over at Vulture exactly about this. And it was great. You guys should read it. 

In the U.S., not only has proximity to blackness functioned in non-black society as shorthand for coolness, but that proximity has—in times of moral turmoil—worked similarly to signal goodness, or at least something close to it.

that he has some problematic shit in his oeuvre of work that profited off of black conservatism and respectability.

At the end of the day, he built a self sustaining media empire. And he did it in Atlanta where everyone said it could not be done. And no one has really been able to replicate here. beat the devil, but give him his due