I just get tired of people who have never volunteered 1 hour at a food bank or read to kids at the library acting like they're Black Panthers online because they retweet vigorously
non-Black women aren't easier to talk to at all. Black men just approach non-Black women with significantly less preconceptions about who they are as people
I'm going to dedicate a thread to some of my favorite contemporary Black women artist who are either instrumentalists or producers of their own music because women in the music industry rarely get exalted for crafting their own songs
lack of women producers and DJs is because they rarely find anyone who's going to put them on game without trying to fuck them. So much great art isn't being created because dudes are predatory.
Streaming really has obscured Black music listening history. Like people don't really understand that just because someone didn't have a top 40 hit doesn't mean that weren't regularly listened to by Black people or some subsection of Black people
Black Americans are the gatekeepers of Blackness because they did all the fucking work. Literally the entire framework of Black identity and how Blackness is even discussed is based on centuries of work by Black Americans.
I don't think any generation of Black actors has ever been able to have the wealth of material this current generation has been given outside of people like Denzel.
I'm going to dedicate a thread to some of my favorite contemporary Black women artist who are either instrumentalists or producers of their own music because women in the music industry rarely get exalted for crafting their own songs
Niggas like to think if they were in positions of power they'd emancipate all black people. But they won't even acknowledge the black janitor at their job
Also Gabrielle Union being the one to broach conversations on colorism and not Wade is interesting but not unexpected. I can't imagine many fathers discussing colorism with their sons.
No one is Michael Jackson. MJ appealed to everyone from every culture around the globe. People from age 8 to age 80 fucked with MJ heavy. No one else can say that. Not even The Beatles or Elvis.
(lowkey fucked up that Gabrielle Union has to defend darkskin women in her own home like her stepsons don't constantly a whole beautiful ass darkskin woman everyday)
The only "adult" cartoon show that you can say is subversive is Bob's Burgers because the family all actively, consistently, and openly loves each other
the idea that incels are all underemployed men who live with their mothers is cute but misguided. as if having a living wage is sole overriding factor to their views on women
@SoulfulBrotha
because a lot of us are socialized to be kind to Black girls/women or not to "put" Black women over any Black man because of how hard Black men have it in society (as if Black women don't have their own subset of problems+same as ours)
if you're not glammed out in very specific sort of way as a Black women, people are not going to chronicle your career as they should regardless of how brilliant, impactful, or influential you are
Cuture 2 is 106 American minutes long?! WHY!? I refuse to believe Migos have enough material to warrant that type of length. That's feature film length
Americans favor rote memorization over learning how things actually work. That's why they 'didn't learn anything in school' because it's all just repetition
I don't know if a lot of women know this, but men will date you because they think you're attractive and enjoy your company. You don't have to do all this extra labor.
Baltimore (and Maryland as a whole) is a great example of how representation in political offices and Black capitalists aren't going to save Black people.
Literally the only people in conflict in the John Wick films are people who sign up for combat/murder and practically every character that asks for mercy (and even ones that don't) are granted mercy. Joker kills people indiscriminately because he had a couple bad days.
#JokerMovie
director Todd Phillips wonders why
#JohnWick
wasn't met with the same scrutiny over violence.
"He’s a white male and he kills 300 people and everybody’s laughing and hooting and hollering. Why does this movie get held to different standards?"
@thesoulasylum
He's the "caretaker" like his whole ass daughter didn't move in and does all the actual caretaking. He's pretty much already physically and mentally moved on from his wife.
a lot of educated Black people on here lack empathy. not necessarily in the scary sociopath sort of way. They lack empathy in the sense that they don't see themselves in Black people. Only a sliver of other Black people that have near-identical politics, educations, and jobs
niggas got so many imaginary business diners and boss meeting in their heads. have whole planned out conversations as part of their fantasies/delusions
Saudi Arabia is literally a religious monarchy and even they shut down mosques and shut down Mecca RIGHT BEFORE RAMADAN, but your preacher or pastor is still holding Sunday Service.
Do people not realize how absolutely narcissistic it is to believe that the ONLY reason they're not getting dates is because you hobby is *checks notes* watching Japanese cartoons?
1st would be the magnificent Kelsey Lu. Currently the bulk of her work consists of just her singing along with her cello. She has a tremendous use of space between her voice and cello while she creates intimate, chilling, and longing songs all at once
Netflix's big problem isn't binging or weekly; it's the fact that they have terrible quality control. They put high 8 or 9 figures behind the most generic focused tested content and bury anything that's mildly interesting or different
It's hard for your neighborhood to improve when everyone that works there has to work 2-3 jobs on a daily basis so they never have time to go to any (poorly) scheduled county meetings about their community.
the layers to men being ain't shit about the silhouette challenge
1. You felt you HAD to see them naked
2. You put in the time to do it
3. You shared the information
4. You shared the videos
5. You uploaded the videos to porn sites
Bruh that's 5 layers of ain't shit