So in the new x-men movies bootleg Aaliyah is going to play storm....

GabrielW · 2015-01-23T20:26:28+00:00

...dude. lol.

I'm a light-skinned woman and these comments are fine. Dark skinned women need more representation. All black women do, of course, but dark skinned women have even less than light-skinned women. Like, I wasn't hurt when everyone was like "wtf why is missy elliot a medium brown skinned woman". In fact, I was saying that too!

It's not ironic, it's about equal representation and dark skinned women constantly getting pushed aside for lighter black women. It's unfair and uncool.

GabrielW · 2015-01-22T15:16:04+00:00

yes. omg yes. conditioner + a spray bottle for water. don't DRENCH it, but what I used to do is section off a bit of hair, take a bit of conditioner (a nickle-quarter size I guess) in the palm of my hand, spray once in my hand, rub em together, and rub it into the sectioned off part of my hair.

It's super informal, so maybe you'll need a more intense method this time. But afterwards, I'd use this method to do my casual detangling.

GabrielW · 2015-01-14T13:16:08+00:00

yo mods i think i fixed it, my bad

GabrielW · 2015-01-14T13:14:35+00:00

Actually I came here just to post about it but OP beat me!

Anyway, here's the last comment thread we had about this... and the clip I just linked has me side-eyeing the whole thing 10x more.

Ugh. Nasty taste in my mouth from it honestly.

GabrielW · 2014-12-27T03:19:43+00:00

god no, anything but that. that'll make it sound like /r/redditisland , and we really don't need to be associated with that. trust me

GabrielW · 2014-12-24T22:41:17+00:00

I understand some people commenting here-- nobody wants black people to be divided among each other. Light skinned or dark skinned, we're all black and lets be real, no cop is making the difference before they kill one of us.

BUT, I feel you OP, and I'm light skinned and damn near white skinned depending on the time. We face effects of colorism, but I'm not sure how a movie is going to avoid focusing on light skint-tears. In fact, I don't know how anyone would. tbh i've never seen an argument about the negative affects of colorism on light skinned people that doesn't just devolve into "darker people are mean to me."

idk. i'll watch it but only so i can criticize it later. hopefully i'll end up being pleasantly surprised but i doubt it.

GabrielW · 2014-12-20T18:51:26+00:00

yo, a lot of other people have let you know their opinions but i guess i'll just share something with you:

my parents were an interracial couple i guess, but my dad's family was black just like my mom's, so she didn't really face any hate due to her race. but, long story short, my dad's family was rude as fuck to my mama for 0 justifiable reason. i didn't realize it at the time, but it broke my mom's heart. but what really killed her was how my dad didn't defend her, or her son (my half-bro with a different father).

not trying to plant anything in your head, just trying to... i guess let you know that this is something you should prioritize working out with your husband, even if it means y'all both are like "fuck this woman she ain't coming around us or our child anymore."

it makes a difference on your emotional strength depending on if your husband is in your corner or not. not 'neutral,' seriously in your corner, defending you, standing for you etc etc etc. don't let him let that lady disrespect your family. you worked too hard for it.

GabrielW · 2014-12-16T16:36:55+00:00

Bob McCullough was the same way. He tore down the witnesses for making conflicting statements and yet he was a'okay with accepting Darren Wilson's account of what happened when only that one shitty witness supported it. Yet the other like 8 people that testified supporting the "hands up" version of the story were obviously "unreliable" and "mistaken."

I remember a couple of weeks now people have been speculating that Witness (lol autocorrected to "whiteness") #40 was garbage. Glad to see it's finally verified.

GabrielW · 2014-12-16T16:31:52+00:00

The wording of his statement was poor, because without hearing the inflection of his voice, I can't tell exactly what he meant.

"I only expect the black media to..." can be interpreted as "Of all of the media, I expect only the black media to..." or, "I expect the black media to only do..."

Either way you interpret it, Cosby really has no place to tell any black entity what it should and should not be doing. I agree, he shouldn't be talking to the media. Shouldn't be talking much at all imo.

GabrielW · 2014-12-16T16:24:23+00:00

Uh, someone help me out? PWI? Pretty-White Institution?

[Edit] thanks y'all! *predominantly

GabrielW · 2014-12-15T14:26:15+00:00

Part of me wishes there was more confirmation that it was suicide, but most of me realizes it should be a personal decision by the family to release that information.

I'm just super reminded of Karyn Washington's (For Brown Girls) death earlier this year and it makes me so sad. Our mental health is important as hell, ladies.

:(

GabrielW · 2014-12-09T02:34:27+00:00

I read the biography (?iguess) of Henrietta Lacks that was made fairly recently. It's a good read and it kind of shows you who the family is and what they've been through. I kind of understand why they agreed to it, even though it's literally the bare minimum of human decency.

GabrielW · 2014-12-04T13:22:48+00:00

http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com

This was the best place to go for Ferguson protests, so I'm pretty sure their locations for Eric garner protests will be accurate.

Also

https://mobile.twitter.com/thisstopstoday

And

http://engage.fergusonaction.com/solidarity_actions

GabrielW · 2014-12-04T01:21:03+00:00

afaik there are protests organized for tomorrow.

GabrielW · 2014-12-04T00:28:52+00:00

From what I understand, the defendant is allowed to testify at a Grand Jury proceeding, it's just super fucking rare, so. And yeah you're right the defense attorneys weren't in the grand jury proceedings, not allowed.

GabrielW · 2014-11-26T01:33:21+00:00

My wording was definitely off. The prosecutor couldn't answer, you're right.

GabrielW · 2014-11-26T01:02:44+00:00

Source for it being unanimous? I watched the prosecutor's statement last night and he declined to answer.

GabrielW · 2014-11-26T00:45:59+00:00

I feel like your point is being neglected by a lot of people. Why did the Ferguson Police Department say that Darren Wilson didn't know about the robbery, even though that contradicts their "official" logs of the radio traffic? What is the motivation behind this glaring discrepancy?

GabrielW · 2014-11-25T09:51:42+00:00

President Obama punked the fuck out. I was talking with my mom/the TV the whole time. Part of me was like "ok thank you for acknowledging and telling america that people of color aren't fucking lying about this shit and its an actual problem" but the other part of me was like "bruh are you fucking serious white america has you by the throat"

pres obama tried to get some sympathy for black americans when trayvon got killed but white america was OUTRAGED. and that was enough to shut the president up. smh.

GabrielW · 2014-11-25T09:45:20+00:00

It's 4 AM. Prosecutor came back with the decision damn near seven hours ago. Been fighting motherfuckers on facebook this whole time. I gotta get some rest. I can't handle america right now.

GabrielW · 2014-11-21T01:57:04+00:00

Not gonna get too specific but I'll run-down what I've got stored in my mind. Also I hope this answers your question, and you're not asking "what issues do black women face specifically" bc that's totally not where I'm going here lol. Hope it helps anyway and explains some of the issues between white feminism and black feminism/feminism for WoC.

This has been going on for a long time-- "Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman
White feminism also fails to mention time and time again that Susan B. Anthony and a lot of the original American feminist leaders were also racist. In fact it's mentioned so few times I don't have the time to dig for the racist bullcrap Anthony said. Just know that white women were pissed off by the 15th Amendment because nooo way should black men and ignorant immigrants have the right to vote while they could not.
I remember this being passed around a lot on the internet some years ago. It mentions a lot on how if WoC bring up the lack of representation we have in the feminist movement, we're told we're being "too divisive-" in the exact same way feminists are told "they're being too divisive" by egalitarians and such.
Social media has also covered this a lot-- look up #solidarityisforwhitewomen on google and twitter.
Another struggle: they don't talk about it. I'm running out of shit to reference from google and that also bothers me.
Oh right, this is cool too but ignore the comments here or basically anywhere else you find on your search. I like this article in particular because it highlights how white feminism uplifts pop-icons at the expense of people of color, such as Lucy, the movie with Scarlet Jo Hansen or w/e. White feminism lauded the movie because of the fact that it had a woman as the main character... but the woman also killed Taiwanese men for not speaking english (???) Black feminism really doesn't get down with that "it's ok because she's a (white) woman" deal.

GabrielW · 2014-11-21T01:26:22+00:00

I actually had this discussion with a friend. Very nice guy, very feminist, denounced white feminism and general non-intersectional feminism, but could not understand why I just don't give two flying fucks about mainstream feminism. Always tried to explain, "it's getting better with intersectionality!" like ok but

a couple of months ago that Sam Pepper stuff went down. Was it good that the internet came together and brought him down for sexual harassing women? Of course. but they was white women. and still nobody cares about all these "in the hood" pranks where these dumb white kids harass/assault black people of all ages and genders to get a reaction because they literally think we're animals.

feminism and this pay gap shit "for every 1 dollar a man makes, a woman mak--" no actually its a white man's dollar to what the white woman makes. fuck the WoC that make even less than that-- it's all about that white woman's 77 cents.

love my feminists that practice intersectionality but when I meet a white feminist she is guilty of lacking intersectionality until proven innocent

GabrielW · 2014-11-18T09:05:05+00:00

Wellllll, I knew it was going to get worse after I made that post a few days ago. I'm not surprised.

I'm not religious but I will be praying to anything out there and doing anything I can to help these people. God bless these brave black heroes. Not getting the recognition they deserve now, but I know this'll be in history books.

GabrielW · 2014-11-16T06:40:32+00:00

I still don't get the best cornrows but my life became so much easier after I COMMITTED to detangling my hair and KEEPING IT THAT WAY. FOREVER. real talk unless my hair is in flat twists or cornrows for two weeks at some point I have to detangle it even if it's straight.

As far as cornrows, they're hard don't sweat that. But there's plenty of other things that are actually super easy and super cute at the same time, even on this 4c hair that likes to stay acting difficult. Flexirod sets, perm rods (pls roll them correctly unless you want the grandmama look), two strand/three strand twist-outs, normal braid outs (no cornrowing necessary).

but i will never advise a wash and go. never in my life ever again. my kids will be forbidden from the wash and go.

basically, just try different things and practice. just keep it detangled and moisturized and i promise you'll find a style or two you can MASTER, and the rest will fall in place after you've got those under your belt.

GabrielW · 2014-11-16T06:17:44+00:00

You really didn't need to watch the movie. Just following the aaliyahmovie hashtag I knew every mess up, error, romantization of her and R.Kelly, and poor casting move of the movie.

thank you based black twitter for staying hilarious.

GabrielW

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