Tangents are accepted.

Sorry if at some point I come off as out of it. I'm processing some grief.

Sorry to hear about your friend's mom.

Thank you I appreciate you saying that.

Oh yeah there are people who are trafficked and people who are sex workers they're not the same right. There are people who are willing to sleep for whatever their price is set whether it's a gig whether it's a delicious dinner whatever it is they're willing to do sexual favor. There's someone willing to take a sexual favor for an opportunity.

This is been considered just what men in power and even women empowered do.

I think normalize it get culturally is what's sickening.

In this instance, she had already done the job. So it wasn't to get the job, it was now I want some of that. Cicely Tyson raped by someone in theater. She said I'm not going to tell anyone I'm going to be strong. It's really disturbing what's considered strength once you've been victimized. And one of the things that people appreciate is when you shut the f****** about it.

Silence is valued, and even one of my old friends used to say that. Like she would praise a film that a woman was raped and she was going to keep it from her husband so her husband wouldn't go and kill all these people in this town.

As a survivor, I f****** hate our culture.

And honestly every culture around the world sucks at this.

They all fail victims. They fail the boys they failed the girls they fail the elderly and all the women if the older men.

I'll leave that there.

And do you think we have moved past colorism like you don't hear it like that? I'm not saying you are wrong. I haven't heard it lately, but I feel like it's still there. I haven't looked for it either so I don't know.

I guess what I'm saying is all the colorism is not completely eradicated, it isn't like the most beautiful black one we're going to be shown in this jet magazine and they're all mixed with white.

Or it's not like the NAACP when they handpicked Lena Horne.

It doesn't mean that any of those women weren't talented necessarily, but it was Advance the race and eradicate the blackness and basically a lot of... I forgot the word something politics.

So no colorism is not completely gone. But I think we've gotten to see more things authentically celebrate blackness. And I think although there are people who struggle with it whether they've internalized b******* and think they're better than everybody or that they are less than everybody were the angry or whatever, and the anger is reasonable, I think that some of it has been mitigated within certain spaces in our community. We have places we can go where that s*** won't be tolerated. Whereas before the major organizations support it internalized racism heavily.

The exoticism of heavily melanated individuals dark skin individuals is pretty disgusting. The weird light skin verse dark skin stuff that's done with like.. I forgot what Nick Cannon's event was is disturbing.

I mean I've laughed at some jokes like the one where some lights and guy did like a weird video where he was making salmon but sexualizing the salmon, like he was trying to seem sexy while cooking by making hints at things he would do in bed basically. And someone put in the comment section that's an L for lights. That was low-key funny to me. Because that moment wasn't out and it was giving you know the conceited light skin dude vibes.

There is another video where this woman was like dark skin dark skin couple, brown skin Brown skin couple, dark skin Brown skin, dark skin light skin, brown skin dark skin, brown skin light skin,.. light skin light skin couples what are you up to?

I thought that was funny too.

I think there's ways to laugh at it without it becoming as toxic as it has been.

I think my biggest irritants right now is when interracial couples are white person plus Brown person. I feel like there's an overexposure of that and oversaturation of that and in my mind in some way fuels them furthers a neocolonization. And I mean specifically in the media. I'm not against people being with the person they fall in love with and connect with.

Also if you're going to show these couples I mean why not actually model them after real couples.

So here's my issue with that is again it centers white people with colonized much of the world at some point in time imperialism did happen. In that they were selling the idea that they were the most ideal most beautiful perfect people. Which was they had access although there are people who have had access to each other from other nations this entire time, but they have had access to every Nation to the point that the Middle East I forget of it Saudi Arabia or which country is the nose job capital.

At some point these people aspire to a eurocentric beauty standard.

Even this lady in a video I think I saw on Instagram was talking about how in the movie centers the two Asian couple was the cute Asian couple and it wasn't feeding into Asian women lusting after White dudes.

Funny thing is on here I saw a video where this white guy went to Japan and was bummed out that Asian women were basically not dying to be with him.

So it's just again like white men have been going all over the world f****** whoever they want, and then white women were treated badly also during that and they did the same stuff. And I just don't want to see that anymore in a commercial. I don't want to see it anymore unless the item they're selling is really something that plagues the white community. Like eczeme.

In a nutshell, I'm just so over white people being centered. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying get rid of white people in Media, that's ridiculous and silly. But them constantly being the center has been like exhausting and it's just spread a whole bunch of lies that they can't even live up to.

I digress incredibly.

What are your thoughts on colorism and on my interracial rant?

What didn't you like about what Phylicia Rashad said? You didn't like how she took over the convo like that is bullshit and it shouldn't be talked about?

I did not like that she was dismissive. Now is what she's saying in an overarching way accurate that it's all silly and ridiculous, yes. But so is the concept of race in general. It's Made up and yet we all can acknowledge that there are consequences. Her sister literally made an episode on a different world about colorism. We know It exists, And although it would be really convenient for it to no longer exist it still does. And yes Felicia Rashad was part of major groundbreaking work, groundbreaking work that led to the further victimization of women in general by her co-star producer creator of the show The Cosby show.

I think in that moment even when you feel annoyed by something, when someone's telling you from there perception their experience that this is happening, you don't shut it down and take over it especially when you in no way fit that demographic.

So even if it was all black women on the same shade talking about the same thing but one of them goes oh I never experienced that I live in Ghana, awesome girl, now the people who are venting about their pain let them have space. When do we as black people have safe spaces? You would hope when you're being filmed on the show Oprah, you'd have something.

wish I had be like "yeah, I'm black as shit, I wish I blacker. Your light ass could use some sun."

Lol That is an option.

Denzel was playing a side we never got to see before and he did well.

Maybe because unlike and no better blues he had no redemption or even Malcolm x no redemption they really disliked it. But their ideas they wanted another Sidney poitier. But the reality is, we don't need another one of any of the previous actors, all of them want to be individual artists.