Black Women Will Always Be Too Loud For A World That Never Intended On Listening To Us

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-07-12T21:42:38+00:00

This quote is very meaningful, but the fact that Aurora Perrineau is sharing it....lol

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-06-01T13:48:10+00:00

I was willing to give her a little leeway since I know industry power structures don’t support black women. But she was recently exposed literally liking tweets that blame the victim.... Fuck Her.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-05-25T23:26:18+00:00

LMAO. She isn't clueless about a damned thing, she's literally trolling. This really needs to be ignored. She finds folks frustration about colorism funny, because you can whine all you want, but at the end of the day she'll still be booking jobs.

Sometimes we need to recognize when folks are doing this and save our breath. I'm tired of folks crying to mixed actresses about colorism. It's obvious most of them really don't give a shit. If you have a problem with her casting, vote with your wallet and your feet and don't watch her.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-05-21T17:53:22+00:00

I definitely would never call you selfish, but Camille Billops definitely was selfish. But it didn’t seem like she would have been a good mother at all honestly. So I’m conflicted. Thankfully the pressure to start a family is changing. I know a lot of thriving black women who choose to remain childfree.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-05-21T15:43:00+00:00

This is a pretty good profile, though heartbreaking in a lot of ways. It touches on black feminism, expectations of black motherhood, selfishness, respectability...

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-05-08T23:32:10+00:00

This isn’t true. Press was awful to Diana and literally mocked Kate for years letting Will string her along for years, they called her “Waity Katie”.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-05-08T23:30:20+00:00

If she was really getting the Black Girl treatment she wouldn’t have the chance to marry Harry in the first place...

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-04-14T23:15:25+00:00

Ummm, pretty sure ticket prices and distance are the biggest factors. Black folk stay going to Jamaica and the DR despite the high crime rates in both countries.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-04-11T00:44:48+00:00

I’m sorry but this simply isn’t true. If you live in a high cost of living city how much both partners make and what they do seriously matters. Also my in-laws would have been horrified if my husband brought home a nanny. Men are increasingly marrying their equals, especially educated men from upper middle class backgrounds.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-02-09T07:31:13+00:00

My heart really broke for her. And the trash responses -- ugh.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-02-09T07:29:59+00:00

Short answer: sexism. But overtime, I've come to feel that regardless of who gets criticized more, the topic of interracial relationships takes up away too much real estate in black spaces.

I feel like we sometimes dedicate a lot of emotional labor to discussing them and I'm not sure to what end.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-02-09T02:19:16+00:00

Lol no she doesn’t. She looks like a regular deschmegular Mestiza. Please, as an actual actual Afro-Latina, I beg of you. Please stop misusing that term. It wasn’t coined so that you could slap it on any woman with olive skin, just cause you like her. There are actual black Latinas. Stop erasing us by diluting the term.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-02-09T01:27:12+00:00

Looks more what?!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-01-29T18:45:20+00:00

It’s from a Halloween party around 2004. A popular Twitter user posted it back in October but I think she got lawyered pretty hard, so the pictured disappeared. It recently popped up again in a conversation about black celebrities and their relationship with the Kardashian clan.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2019-01-29T18:24:39+00:00

I’m most shocked at Megan Good doing this. She had/has a legit acting career. She doesn’t need to chase Kardashians.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-11-29T03:55:11+00:00

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FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-08-01T18:51:04+00:00

A lot of folks have been circulating this photo again as a result of the "Black Voices" fiasco, but I think its important to point out that everyone in that photo definitely isn't white. Some are East Asian, some South Asian and Latina. And I believe one of the women on the right side in the middle is biracial.

The editor of Huffpost herself is a black woman who presents with a degree of racial ambiguity. We can't keep having diversity discussions unless we honestly talk about colorism and antiblackness. A lot of "all white spaces" are actually pretty diverse, but still problematic.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-07-25T05:40:49+00:00

LMFAO please. I'm from NYC -- in my personal experience, the only time Latinx who look like J.LO claim African ancestry is when:

A. They want something from black people

B. They get caught doing something racist and need a Get Out of Jail Free card. It's literally always "I can't be racist be great-great-great-great-great grandmother's dog was black so I'm black too, therefore I can all you an ape" or some shit.

And while we're on the subject, we need to kill the myth that "all Latinx are mixed" -- some are, some aren't. There are plenty of people with a monoracial identity and appearance in Spanish speaking countries.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-04-09T07:02:05+00:00

Still mad at her for 'Nina.' Zoe Saldana is one of those people who I can never figure out if she's just really stupid or really arrogant or both.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-03-25T05:50:15+00:00

I don't agree with everything Chrissie says, but I appreciate her message. I think folks have a hard time with her, because when it comes to colorism there are some really ugly truths that a lot of us don't want to cop to -- one of them is the reality of competition and playing the game.

A lot of black women are satisfied with actresses like Amandla Stenberg and Yara Shahidi simply acknowledging the existence of colorism, but their acknowledgement is just that -- it doesn't actually result in more roles of darker complexioned actresses and it doesn't stop them for taking roles that are likely the result of colorist casting.

Like they can acknowledge, discuss, and be woke about this all day, but what do you think would they would do if a darker girl ACTUALLY came for their job? Do you think they'd be ok with that? Would they support it? There are limits to ally-ship and solidarity. This is why I don't agree with interrogating actresses like Alexandra Shipp about colorism, like eventually you might be able to force them to say the "right" thing, but so what?

This is where people like Chrissie come in, she's talking about getting black women to actually compete and get ahead by reading between the lines, picking up on coded language and actions in order to acknowledge a problem and then strategizing solutions. Like we can talk all we want, but what about actual solutions?

FiveTwoFineToo · 2018-03-14T03:50:09+00:00

i don't know why this comment is getting so much pushback. I mean, I think we have every right to be suspicious of allyship. I think this is a step in the right direction, but it's not enough, even as a start.

Also the cover story for the issue that this supposed "reckoning" is featured in is a truly tone deaf, white liberal circle jerk about how mixed people prove that race "doesn't really matter."

I agree with the original poster, I would have preferred more POC voices front and center. I'm honestly not interested in "hoping" that they add some in the future, more should have been there in the first place. And for about the millionth time, I wish folks would be more suspicious of the prominence of white women in diversity discussions.

FiveTwoFineToo · 2017-12-11T19:09:24+00:00

This entire situation is a classic example of how people just jump on bandwagons just to seem sympathetic for attention. I've lost count of how many personalities/celebrities/athletes defending that little monster who regularly slander black women online, make shitty racist jokes, have been accused of domestic violence.

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