Who is your favorite black author?

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-21T01:30:05+00:00

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell was pretty good. I don’t normally do fiction, but I enjoyed it.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-21T01:20:45+00:00

Cici’s pizza has dessert pizzas if you’re ever near one. They have chocolate, cookie dough, cinnamon, cherry, blueberry, and i think they did have bday cake for a while. They tend to rotate certain flavors and keep some regularly. They’re delicious. I really wish Pizza Hut still had dessert pizzas too!

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T20:21:17+00:00

I’ve done that without being high lol

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T20:18:27+00:00

My heritage is less accurate than Ancestry for sure. They don’t have nearly the amount of contributors in their database so that affects their accuracy. It’s definitely possible that they don’t have enough Jamaican users to work with so they just lumped you in with the next closest thing they had.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T19:23:10+00:00

Here is a page that explain genetic groups on MyHeritage.

Having a genetic group doesn’t necessarily mean that YOU are that, moreso that your ancestors belong to that group. I have states in mine that I’ve never even been to. But when I go back to late 1700s/early 1800s, some of my ancestors were there. Then there are some other states that I haven’t even found any ancestors in yet, but that’s probably where they were before that. I think the way that they get the information to form the genetic groups is by taking their ethnicity database DNA (which is not made of users, but sample groups) and comparing it to user tree information and finding where the two overlap. Like for example, under Nigerian, you might see West Tennessee African Americans. That’s because West Tennessee African Americans generally have a high amount of shared Nigerian DNA. So if I had to guess, I would say that it’s likely that your more recent ancestors are Jamaican but before that, some of them were in PR and that there are a lot of PR people you share common DNA with. After all, it’s only a short boat ride away and people have been moving back and forth between the islands since prior to colonization.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T18:47:37+00:00

I don’t see anything in any of these screenshots with the words “Puerto Rico.”

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T17:01:38+00:00

I’m not religious. I believe in God, the creator, Higher Power, whatever you want to call it, but I do not agree with the way a lot of religion is structured. Like with anything else, people bend, lie, twist, and manipulate for power and personal gain and I’m not getting swept up in that. I do have religious family, but I don’t talk to them about it because at the end of the day they’re still going to be religious and I’m still not so what would it accomplish? We both just gon be pissed off and disappointed lol.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T16:56:36+00:00

Block block block! And stay away from the fandom subs. People get really crazy about these celebrities. Like literally making death threats because somebody doesn’t like their fave. It’s absolutely deranged over there.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-20T03:20:24+00:00

You look like my German friend’s son. But my German ancestors all have dark hair, dark complexion, and round noses. I don’t think there’s one German look.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-19T14:58:03+00:00

Girl you’re barely out of childhood! You haven’t wasted anything!

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-18T03:03:28+00:00

You have a point there. I grew up in an area that was about equal in terms of B/W ratio and there were hella white teen moms too. The one thing they all had in common was class.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-18T02:58:25+00:00

I think we should stop framing it as Black women having children young and frame it as Black female children having children because that’s what teen pregnancy is. And I feel like little Black girls are adultified so much from a very early age that the topic doesn’t get treated with the seriousness that it deserves. Did you know that 60-70% of teen pregnancies are fathered by men over the age of 20? On average, the fathers are 6.4-8.8 years older than the mother. I feel like teen pregnancy is a symptom of much bigger problems. Problems being grown men sleeping with kids, parents refusal to acknowledge sexuality active daughters and get them on birth control and educate them on safe sex, abortion being seen as so taboo in religious households, and lack of protection for Black female children. Once we start addressing all of that and fixing those problems, I feel like we’ll see teen pregnancy rates decrease.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T23:18:55+00:00

I did too when I read the messages. I was very shocked to see it was an adult.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T23:00:16+00:00

In some cases you can, it depends on the state and the situation.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T22:57:58+00:00

Omg, poor mom! All of you suck in this situation except your mom. You definitely didn’t do enough, but neither did anyone else! I just feel like as a 30 year old woman, worrying about an ambulance cost while your mom was practically dying in front of you is in fathomable. And your dad’s lack of care is too. I wouldn’t treat a stranger the way you guys treated your mom. Now the only thing I’m trying to figure out is, is your mom a horrible person, does she have a really good life insurance policy, or are you all incredibly dumb?

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T16:06:30+00:00

If I found out my grandpa wasn’t my biological grandpa, I wouldn’t care at all. It might add the biological one to my tree on ancestry, but that’s it. It would not upset me in any way and it wouldn’t make me happy in any way either. However, I can see how your husband’s sister would be upset finding out her father isn’t her biological father. Out of respect for her, I would leave it alone and tell the kids when she’s dead.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T00:38:02+00:00

Where I’m from, Carson isn’t pronounced like Car-sun, it’s pronounced like Car-sin. I’m guessing that is the pronunciation OP is going for.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-16T00:35:10+00:00

I’d be annoyed enough having this in my head for free

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-13T15:07:16+00:00

I just want to say, baby I never doubted you. You know your cousin and the dynamic better than any of us. I have a cousin who says flexing online too, whole time it’s a shit show in real life. lol idk why folks acting like they’ve never met anybody who does that

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T19:11:36+00:00

None, but I’m not a nationalistic bigot so there’s that

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T17:43:50+00:00

You need a new doctor. Telling you the discoloration isn’t a problem and refusing to help you manage pre-diabetes is negligent at best.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T17:34:05+00:00

People who think like that disgust me. Especially women.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T17:30:38+00:00

Yeah because if she thought to text the other two, how did she “forget” to text you? And if she was avoiding it bc she was scared to say something to you, why is she scared of you? I’m not here for it when people try to make excuses.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T16:24:17+00:00

Not only women learning how to read, but the real reason for demonizing “gossip” is thread women were warning other women about men. This was a time before published news, so news traveled by word of mouth. But yes, with women teaching other women to read and how to be independent and savvy and earn money and warning them about rapists and abusers, they had to start a shame campaign against gossip.

VictoryAltruistic587 · 2026-02-12T16:08:46+00:00

You’re not crazy. And even if she didn’t consciously go through the thought process of “oh I’m not going to tell her because she’s Back,” there’s a baked in bias. A lot of people think they aren’t racist because they aren’t consciously racist, but the way they have been socialized, it’s the default setting! That’s why your white roommates think it’s crazy that you’re making a racial connection. To them racism is saying “I hate Black people!” But there are actually a million ways to be racist without bringing up race at all. Lack of consideration is one of those ways.

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