WHY IS TV AFRAID OF SHOWING BLACK PEOPLE LOVING BLACK PEOPLE

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     "This over-representation of interracial relationships of Black characters with white partners on television is reflective of the ways in which to center whiteness within the Black experience is our new “woke” entertainment landscape.

     By tagging a white partner to the majority of new Black stories, entertainment groups are able to avoid telling a largely Black story by including a white person as peripheral to the Black character’s life. It’s a way of increasing Black representation while still allowing non-Black actors and actresses—particularly white men—to maintain their footholds across the entertainment landscape. White actors and actresses still hold the coveted spot of being the adored love interest in a wider range of movies than ever before.

     Intraracial Black relationships are so often depicted as abusive or volatile in comparison to the way many interracial relationships are portrayed. Movies like Acrimony readily align with the trope that Black couples are doomed for a life of abuse and philandering. This sends a violent message that the key to true happiness for a Black person is to find a white partner—which is anti-Black.

     This is not to say that interracial relationships are wrong or indicative of self hate. It’s to say that Hollywood’s over-representation of interracial relationships appears as a resistance to showcasing intraracial Black relationships. Studios believe that creating a white character peripheral to Black stories will make them more palatable to wider audiences. This is a disservice to the representation ethos that is about showcasing Black life as it truly exists. Black love in all its forms should accurately be depicted on the screen."

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SELF-LOVE BEFORE OTHER LOVE: YOU CAN'T RESPECT SOMEONE WHO KISSES YOUR ASS

You may recognize that line from an old movie called FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. It's an important concept that way too many of my anti-feminist sisters are failing to realize. 

This lack of realization among anti-feminists* becomes apparent every single time a black male predator goes down. The defense of R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Chris Brown, XXXTentacion, Ray Rice... brings this out the black female patriarchy sufferers every single time.

But the black women that make me even sadder are the "nice ones, " the I'm-Just-Too-Nice-Girls, who don't understand that what they are really trying to do is kiss the ass of the same ole frog trying to turn him into a prince. 

The thing that's great about this video is that it low-key discusses co-dependence and how some women (and men) pour so much gas on an average human being's worst tendencies that disrespect is a natural outcome.

Let me say it again:

Person A kissing Person B's asswill always bring out the worst in Person A

And if Person A has an ounce of integrity Person A will dump Person B on instinct(even if they don't understand exactly what's happening) 

and recover themselves

Give Him 5 Minutes. He said a word here --for men and women, both

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NO GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BLACK PANTHER AS WHITE RACIAL FANTASIES WIN AGAIN

a repost And as much as I was panting for BLACK PANTHER to win at the Golden Globes, I knew a superhero movie was a long shot --especially since the stars are all black folk. But GREEN BOOK winning instead?

Yet one more white redemption movie winning over the blackest movie I've seen in a while is just like the Hollywood White Elite choosing DRIVING MISS DAISY over DO THE RIGHT THING.
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How 'Driving Miss Daisy' Became One of the Most Scorned Best Picture Winners Ever

“When Driving Miss Motherf—-ing Daisy won Best Picture, that hurt,” director Spike Lee told New York Magazine in 2008. “[But] no one’s talking about Driving Miss Daisy now.” 

The filmmaker is hardly alone in his disdain for Bruce Beresford’s 1989 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. And in fact, the few discussions that Daisy inspires nowadays often begin — or end — with a question: Was this the worst Best Picture selection ever made?

The choice caused controversy and skepticism even at the time, with the New York Times asking if the film had a “subtext that summons up a longing for the good old days before the civil rights movement.” And in the 25 years since it was released on Dec. 13, 1989, Daisy’s reputation has hardly improved. So how did the divisive little movie manage to win the most prestigious prize in cinema? And does it deserve the scorn it continues to attract today? 

...In fairness, it has its moments of complexity, most notably in the film’s best scene, as Hoke attacks his employer’s hypocrisy over not inviting him to attend a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. But on the whole, it’s a soft-focus, mostly unchallenging Stanley Kramer-esque take on...

race relations with a simplistic and rose-tinted view of the past...

I've said this about a number of movies and television shows. I'm going to say it again. If GREEN BOOK had come out in 1981, maybe this movie could be seen as a progressive race relations movie. But this came out in 2018. 

All GREEN BOOK reveals about our real world in the United States is how stuck white Americans are on re-shaping their racist past. That has to be what plucking the most rosy stories they can find about race relations are about.

It's not that all movies about race relations have to end in hopelessness. It's just that movies about white racists and regular black folk (not watered down, superstar-black folks like GREEN BOOK's Don Shirley) have to show racism being as ugly as it is. 

If you had blinked slowly three to four times during GREEN BOOK you'd miss the fact that Viggo Mortensen was playing a racist at all. And I think that's what white audiences loved about it.

I wound up watching this film with what seemed like all white senior citizens. The theater was packed too...in the late afternoon, when the gray hairs usually show up in force at the first matinee.  

That said, except for a few strongly cringy moments, it was entertaining --even to me. 
The whiten-folk of the gray hairs clapped at the screen when it was over, and did so for a long time -- which probably makes them representative of the same white people who voted for DRIVING MISS DAISY and DRIVING MR DON SHIRLEY (GREEN BOOK) for best picture.  

And you know what?

Now that I think about Mortensen's very peacefully racist role -- especially considering he was kind-of a hood rat in the movie-- I'm going to say I was wrong. This movie would not have worked as a progressive race movie even in 1981.

That said, except for a few strongly cringe-worthy moments, it was very light and entertaining.  And if I didn't know what a Green Book was and how it came to be a life saving tool for blacks in the south (it didn't just save black folks embarrassment and mean-talk from racists like it did in the movie) I wouldn't have been angry when I left the theater.

Yet I could have enjoyed the movie more 

if I both (a) didn't know what the Green Book was 

and had also (b) taken 3 or 4 long blinks, as described above. In this way, I'd have missed Viggo Mortensen being a racist altogether and everything would have been coming up disney for me too  -- just like it did for the white audience. 

And that's why this white redemption movie won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. 

But whiteness through rose colored glasses is never a good thing for white audiences. Never. And this is important, because it is white people who have a white supremacy problem to recover from -- and movies like GREEN BOOK drag white folks, as a group, backward instead of forward.

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WHAT THE SMOLLETT HOAX TEACHES US ABOUT RACISM HOMOPHOBIA & HATE IN THE USA: NOTHING

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Like I said a few days ago. This is barely about Jussie anymore.There's not one good reason for black folks to ever trust the police's word for anything --especially any words coming from a police department that routinely protects its murderers and accessories to murder  (Rekia Boyd, Laquan McDonald).

When Rekia Boyd's murderer, Dante Servin, got processed through the system to freedom one article I read stated that he was the first murderer with a badge to go through the legal system in 17 years. 

Seventeen years!  As often as Chicago Police shoot people in defacto SERIOUSLY segregated Chicago!
So don't hold your breathe waiting for me to regret giving Jussie the benefit of the doubt. And I'm still kinda waiting for a Hail Mary. Kinda. (The CPD had so many leaks going during this case that, at 10 years of age, I could have lied myself an alibi no matter what I actually did. And Able & Ola, Jussie's reported accomplices to the hoax, are older than that.

You wanna know why I still want there to be a Hail Mary explanation? 

First of all, I don't want to believe any of my people can be as dumb as the Orange Menace in the White House. I mean, Jussie reportedly called Ola and Able (the brothers he reportedly paid to fake the beating) an hour before and after the crime? Really?
At 10 years of age, I could have done a better job of faking a hate crime. Maybe 8 years old. And all of this was supposed to get him a pay raise? How?

This is Agent Evil Orange level thinking.

Maybe I just don't want to believe there can be two high profile nitwits living in this country at the same dang time
 

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FROM:  THE ROOT
Michael Harriott 

We should focus on what Smollett’s hoax teaches us about the racism, homophobia and hate in America:

     Nothing. 

     This was just the case of one nigga doing some dumb shit (allegedly). It doesn’t negate the proven fact that hate crimes are on the rise any more than a false rape report negates the fact that there are rapists who are walking free among us every day.
     And, when a woman, a gay person, or a black person tells me they are a victim of violence and hate, the absolute last person I tend to trust is white people or the police. I believe facts. If the Chicago Police Department told me fire was hot, I’d need to see more evidence.
     None of this means Trump supporters aren’t racist or that straight people aren’t homophobic. Two things can be simultaneously true. It is possible that Jussie Smollett lied about being attacked and gay and non-white people are under attack.
      America has inflicted so much violence on anyone who isn’t a straight white man that if you told me that a team of invisible white men teleported themselves to a black cookout, stole all the seasonings, emptied a box of California raisins into the potato salad, put a crust of breadcrumbs on the macaroni, poured La Croix in the Kool-Aid, and called you the n-word before teleporting themselves to safety, I wouldn’t automatically believe you ...
    But I’d listen

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Willa Brown Chapell Taught The Tuskegee Airmen How To Fly

     Aviator, politician, educator and activist, Willa Brown gleaned strength and inspiration from the life work of Bessie Coleman.
     She was instrumental in establishing the Coffey School of Aeronautics and in doing so, fulfilled Bessie's long standing dream of an all black flying school.
     With a master's degree from Northwestern University and a Master Mechanic's Certificate, Willa became the first Black American woman to earn a commercial pilot's license in the U.S. She was also the first Black American to achieve an officer's rank in the Civil Air Patrol and lead the fight to integrate African Americans into the U.S. Army Corp.

source: http://www.blackintime.info/black-birthday-monthly.html 

      Although Bessie Coleman was [...had] to obtain her pilot’s license [...outside] the United States during the 1920s because she was a black woman, Willa Brown was able to achieve that goal by 1938. 

Brown was born in Kentucky and graduated from high school in Terra Haute, Indiana. She attended Indiana State Teachers College and worked as a teacher before taking a job as a social worker in Chicago. It was there that she decided she wanted to learn to fly. The same year she earned her pilot’s license, she earned an MBA from Northwestern University.
     Her aviation and business skills were put to good use as a tireless promoter of the aviation industry and as a successful administrator of aeronautical training programs. One day in 1936, she walked into the Chicago Defender newspaper office wearing white jodhpurs, jacket, and boots to drum up publicity for an African American air show to be held at Harlem Field. She co-founded the Coffey School of Aeronautics with her then-husband Cornelius Coffey. The Coffey School was the first black-owned and operated private flight academy in the United States. In 1939, the school received a government contract to begin training pilots for the Civilian Pilot Training Program.
     By 1941, Brown had trained hundreds of men and women. Many of her male students went on to become part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Brown also became the first black officer (male or female) in the Civil Air Patrol in 1941. Earning her mechanic’s license in 1943, she became the first woman to hold both a mechanic’s license and a commercial pilot license. She actively lobbied for the integration of the U.S. military and ran (unsuccessfully) for Congress in 1946, the first black woman to do so.

Source: http://www.therefresh.co/2018/03/15/bessie-willa-and-janet-unsung-heroines-in-aviation-history/ 

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R. Kelly Indicted on 10 Counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse, No-Bail Arrest Warrant Approved

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There were decades of allegations. There was a criminal trial on charges of child pornography. There were hashtag campaigns and open letters. There was a high-profile series documenting the stories of his alleged victims. Now, there is a no-bail warrant out for Robert “R.” Kelly on 10 counts of aggravated child sexual abuse, approved by a Cook County judge on Friday. 

Multiple outlets, including the Chicago Sun-Times and USA Today, are reporting the new charges may have stemmed from a recently surfaced video provided by attorney Michael Avenatti, allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. The prominent attorney’s comments on Twitter also point to this...

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/breaking-r-kelly-indicted-on-10-counts-of-aggravated-1832825948

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The Police Beating That Should Have Opened White America’s Eyes To White Brutality In The Jim Crow South

    The [white] bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard [.black.] asked if he had time to use the bathroom, the driver cursed loudly at him. Woodard would later admit in a deposition that he cursed back.
     Neither man said anything until the bus stopped in Batesburg, South Carolina. There, the [white ] driver told the local [white] police about Woodard’s impudence. Woodard was ordered off the bus.
     When Woodard tried to give his version of events, a [white] police officer struck him with a night stick. Woodard was escorted to the jail,

where, he later testified, he was repeatedly beaten by the [white] police chief, Linwood Shull. Woodard said that Shull pounded him in his eyes with the end of the night stick until he blacked out (charges Shull would deny).
     Once Woodard regained consciousness, he couldn’t see.
    Woodard was charged with disorderly conduct, with the [white] police [officers] claiming he’d been intoxicated. Witnesses, however, said he hadn’t been drinking. After paying a fine, Woodard was driven to a veterans’ hospital in Columbia, where doctors told him he would be permanently blind...
http://theconversation.com/the-police-beating-that-opened-americas-eyes-to-jim-crows-brutality-53932?

WHY DO WHITE PEOPLE ACT AS IF...

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ON EBONICS AND AAVE

Linguists estimate that AAVE is spoken by 80-90% of African Americans, at least in some settings. Those who speak AAVE are described as “bidialectal”, meaning they slip easily in and out of AAVE and Standard American English (SAE) dialect, and the extent of its use is regulated by circumstances such as communication partner, environment, or topic. In addition, researchers at the University of Michigan found that most AAVE speakers use it in less than one third of their speech events.

Furthermore, AAVE is occasionally spoken by members of other racial and ethnic groups; these people are considered to be part of the AAVE “speech community”.

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PAULI MURRAY: The Brain Behind Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Reed V Reed Supreme Court Win

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A black feminist lesbian who "favored a masculine-of-center gender performance during her 20s and 30s," she dedicated her work to challenging preconceived notions of race, gender, sexuality and religion. But, as Cooper notes, Murray isn't well-known or celebrated outside academic circles: 

     "The civil rights struggle demanded respectable performances of black manhood and womanhood, particularly from its heroes and heroines, and respectability meant being educated, heterosexual, married and Christian. Murray's open lesbian relationships and her gender nonconforming identity disrupted the dictates of respectability, making it easier to erase her five decades of important intellectual and political contributions from our broader narrative of civil rights."

     ...Dr. Pauli Murray is hardly the household name that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is, but a recent profile in Salon argues she should be.
     As Salon's Brittney Cooper explains, Murray, who graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1944, was one of the first lawyers to argue that the Equal Protection Clause's approach to racial discrimination should apply equally to gender-based discrimination.
     Ginsburg credits Murray's work as the inspiration for her 1971 brief in Reed v. Reed, which ruled that women could not be excluded as administrators of personal estates based on their gender. The Supreme Court case marked the first time that the Equal Protection Clause was applied to sex discrimination, and has served as precedent for many arguments in the decades since then. Ginsburg found Murray's prior arguments so important to her own that she elected to put Murray down as an honorary co-author on the milestone brief.
     In Cooper's piece and other profiles, there's no end to examples of Murray's trailblazing, both in the legal world and far beyond...

Read More At NPR  https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/19/387200033/the-black-queer-feminist-legal-trailblazer-youve-never-heard-of

So now you know, Pauli Murray was key figure in legally securing black rights and women's rights as well. 

Being born black and female was probably enough to stop her from becoming the Supreme Court Justice she should have been. But her being brave enough to be openly gay completely blocked her from rising as high as Thurgood Marshall too. Yet what she did do is more important. 

She came up with the key arguments that won cases for blacks, women, and black women at the Supreme Court level.  That enabled women like Daisy Bates, Diane Nash, and Jo Ann Robinson to fight down at street level and win OUR REAL RIGHTS, our real day-to-day living rights in towns and cities.

Pauli stands as a Black American icon for all of us, but especially for LGBTQ folk everywhere.  

read more about Pauli Murray here: 
https://paulimurrayproject.org/pauli-murray/biography/

While she wasn't mentioned in the Thurgood Marshall movie, I hear she is at least mentioned in the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg movie, ON THE BASIS OF SEX. 

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OCASIO-CORTEZ EXPOSES THE DARK SIDE OF POLITICS INSIDE FIVE MINUTES

Actually, all the new congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez  has done at the link below is condensed what Agent Evil Orange has been teaching us all over the last 2 years.

What we all of us should have learned by now, if we've been paying attention is that there might be -- just maybe -- one or two laws that actually stop congressmen from doing anything they want to enrich themselves and their cronies at citizens expense. 

And there aren't any laws in place that stop a president.

The other thing that the Orange Chump has taught me is that the constitution, and most of the legal documents that under gird it, are nothing but a bunch of suggestions. 

But Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, our Democratic Socialist, has made this conclusion of mine official

--in an official forum
--with just a few questions
--inside three minutes 

Check out the short, edited video at Huff Post link right here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-campaign-finance_us_5c5d246be4b03afe8d6637ff?

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BLACK PANTHER PREMIERED A YEAR AGO TODAY

BLACK PANTHER Smashes Multiple Box Office Records, Is One Of The Top 5 Biggest Domestic Openings Ever

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     A Repost from February 2018

Funny how things change. 

Believe it or not, there was a time, not that long ago, when a Black Panther movie was considered an impossibility. [Don't just] take my word for it. That was was the hardcore opinion of Louis D'Esposito, who is the co-president of Marvel, and has been the executive producer of every Marvel film made since Iron Man. Back in 2012, during a panel at the New York Comic Con, he actually said that a Black Panther film was highly unlikely, mainly because trying to visually create on-screen a fictional African nation of Wakanda is "maybe a little more difficult, maybe ... it's always easier basing it here … For instance, Iron Man 3 is rooted right here in Los Angeles and New York. When you bring in other worlds, you're always faced with those difficulties." 

Yeah right. Funny that Marvel didn't seem to have any trouble recreating other fantastic imaginary fantasy worlds in other films, but Wakanda is somehow too difficult. Of course, he was roundly criticized for those comments and people were quick to point out that D'Esposito and Marvel what really saying was that there was no audience for a black superhero film. 

~SHADOW AND ACT

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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A HALF A DECADE MAKES?

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THE DANGERS OF WHITEWASHING AND MALE-WASHING HISTORY

The reason I added "male-washing" is because black people have also told the lies described herein about Rosa Parks. 

What lie you ask? The lie that's told in schools was this: Rosa Parks was an old woman, sick and tired of being sick and tired. So when she sat down on the bus in a Jim Crow state, she refused to give up her seat for a white person --like she was legally supposed to-- because she was simply too tired to comply.

This was a lie. Rosa Parks was raised by an activist minded grandfather who could pass for white. And she was working for NAACP before that fateful bus ride. Futhermore, she did activist work on the behalf of black women being raped, with impunity, by white men.

Rosa Park's protest on the bus that day were quite deliberate. She, and others before her, refused to get up to make a point about demanding equality.

And black men weren't the ones that created the Montgomery Bus Boycott around her arrest.

It was Jo Ann Robinson and the ???????? that were waiting for such an event so they could stage their pre-planned Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

These black women already had a plan in place to spread the word to all black folks to not use the buses. They already had a network in place to provide carpools to get black women to work (mostly as maids).

Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson were the opposite of tired.  And Martin Luther King was pulled in to be a spokesperson for the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the first day of the protest was a success. With the support of black churches, communication centers for black neighborhoods, the Boycott continued for a full year...despite houses being bombed etc.

But the poor, old Rosa Parks being too tired to stand up and obey the law story is STILL being sold as Black History by white teachers. 

STILL

And that's why today's white people are so shocked by disruptive and not technically legal protests today. They've whitewashed and male-washed the truth out of our collective history.

White people don't know our collective racial history. Therefore we are repeating it. 

Black people protest. 

White people scream about law and order in response...all while praising the white-washed versions of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. 

VIDEO: 

The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History | David Ikard 

"Should white people care about the whitewashing of black history? Most people will likely answer yes to this question, if only because it sounds politically correct to do so. What will hopefully become clear is that whites have as much to lose by whitewashing black history as their African American peers. David Ikard is a Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests include African American Literature, black feminist criticism, hip-hop culture, black masculinity and whiteness studies.  

He is the author/co-author of four books, including "Breaking The Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism" (2007), "Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America" (2012; co-authored with Martell Teasley and winner of the 2013 Best Scholarly Book Award by DISA), "Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America" (2013), and "Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" (2017) "

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NIGHT WEDDING

"Night Wedding" by Patricia Brintle, Haiti

DUEL CITIZENSHIP by Denise Chaila

She's got awesome music and sound effects going on in the background. Check this out. In fact, listen to this a couple of times!

THE LAYOFF

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Richelieu Dennis Knows How To Come Hard Or Stay Home

When you are playing bid whist, you're really not allowed to "talk across the board" (translation: hint to your partner, telling her what card she should play next). But even the most die-hard, anal retentive, rule-follower will allow the other team --when desperate and losing the game-- to call across the board and say, "Come hard or stay home." This means, We're almost done and dead, about to lose; if you have some serious winning cards to play, now is the time.

Richelieu Dennis must know how to play the game because he was on a serious downhill slide not too long ago. He had all but lost black female respect when he put a Shea Moisture ad out that featured white women. An ad that pretty much said, "All Hair Matters" when black women's loyalty to his brand had already made him rich 

And black women were not having it. 

He withdrew that ad faster than somebody pulling their hand back from a hot stove they didn't know was on. And that's as it should have been. 

We are are permanently done with making due with products made for white women's straight, naturally oily hair. 

And we're almost done with middle of the road products that are a little too heavy for white women and way too thin for black women so that the hair product manufacturer can make as much money as possible per product. 

Shea Moisture is ours. And we want it to stay that way. 

I feel pretty secure saying I can speak for at least 75% of black women when I say, we don't care who uses hair care products made for black women--for so long as the white women's added demand doesn't drive the price into the stratosphere. But each and every black product that expects black female support needs to be aimed at afro hair first 

-- same as white hair products are aimed at straight, oily hair first.  

Nowadays, I will pick through black hair products that will work with various afro textures and porosity, sometimes finding things that are a little too light, a little too heavy, or products that just sit on top of my hair --doing nothing-- before, like Goldilocks I find the leave-in conditioner that's just right for the weather. But what I won't be doing anymore is picking through white women's hair potions, many of which that are little more than water, because -- 

I don't have to. 

I have choices.

But I'm glad Richelieu Dennis is making sure that Shea Moisture's products are off my you-are-dead-to-me list because black women need the kind of support he's been dishing out the last couple of years. 

Since the ALL HAIR MATTERS fiasco, Dennis has bought ESSENCE MAGAZINE, making entirely black owned again. He also bought Madam C J Walker's mansion with a vision toward doing what Madam C J did back in the day -- helping black women become entrepreneurs. And now...

    "...the founder of NaturAll Club, Muhga Eltigani, can add her name to that growing list as she announced via social media that Dennis has invested $1 million in her natural hair care line."  

https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/news/new-voices-and-shea-moisture-founder-richelieu-dennis-invests-1-million-in-beauty-startup-naturall-club?

I truly am breathing a sigh of relief because Dennis has made an apology to black women that counts through action because I only ever got to boycott at the 90% level; I just couldn't find a good replacement for Shea Moisture's Moisture Retention Shampoo. And not stripping your hair is one the main natural hair care keys to keeping your coils on your head instead of breaking all over the floor.

Whew! I'm glad that quasi-boycott is over. I felt so guilty, looking over my shoulder for black women, tiptoeing into "Tar-zjet" to get my fix. 

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PAULI MURRAY: The Brain Behind Thurgood Marshall's Brown v Board Of Education Supreme Court Win

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     In the legendary court case [Brown v Board Of Education, Thurgood Marshall] used key points from Murray's civil rights argument article to help secure a win. 

      As The New Yorker reports, Murray may be the most important Black legal scholar in our country's history, yet we rarely hear of her impact on legal reform. In her final year of law school, Murray wrote a paper arguing that segregation violated the 13th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution. A few years later, her former Howard Law professor Spottswood Robinson joined Thurgood Marshall, alongside several others, to try to end Jim Crow. While working on the case, Robinson remembered Murray’s paper, took it out of his files and presented it to his team, which later helped them successfully argue Brown v. Board of Education.
     Yet Murray's knowledge of her contribution to the case didn't come until her mid-50s. And according to The New Yorker, it took time for society to find out about her involvement, too...
     By the 1950s, Murray was a prominent civil rights attorney with a large platform, and according to the National Organization for Women, her decision to speak up about her queerness and political beliefs caused her to become erased from most chronicles of the civil rights movement...

READ MORE AT BUSTLE: https://www.bustle.com/p/how-feminist-pauli-murray-quietly-helped-thurgood-marshall-win-brown-v-board-of-education-2796596

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LOVING THE WORLD BY LOVING SELF: WHEN YOU FEEL THAT DOWNHILL SLIDE BEGIN...

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Martin Luther King Jr. Asks WHAT IS IN YOUR LIFE'S BLUE PRINT?

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     Rarely seen footage of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, where he delivered his speech "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?"

    

A Salute To The Black Female Actresses Of 2018

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     In terms of quantity, this has been a strong year for Black female leads.

While it may not be reflected at year’s end when many critics groups and other organizations are hardly recognizing the works of many, with the exception of Regina Hall, but from the various festivals around the world to theatrical releases and streaming platforms, there were at least 30 or more films that featured Black actresses in lead roles in 2018.

     From studio thrillers to indie films, there were plenty of genres that were highlighted where the performances showcased the range of many.
     There is still a lot of work to be done. Oscar winner Viola Davis, after becoming the first African-American to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama in 2015, stated, “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.”
     So far, in the Academy Awards’ 90 year history, Halle Berry (2001) is the ONLY Black woman to have won an Oscar for Best Actress out of the 11 Black women ever nominated. That’s 11 out of 450 in total. Hopefully, in time, some of these actresses will be starring in films that merit consideration and more than one.
     Among the 2018 highlights...

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Read The List Here: https://www.blackfilm.com/read/2018/12/a-salute-to-the-black-female-leads-of-2018-films/ 

A 208 YEAR OLD EXAMPLE OF WHAT A KILLMONGER ATTITUDE GETS YOU

The Youtube description of video below, on Henri Christophe, is very different from mine:

YOU TUBE's:

"The story of a black man's rise from soldier to king."

DEBLYNN's:

The story of a black man who didn't know the difference between wanting equality and wanting to replace the oppressor as the top dog. Only this man pays for his betrayal in the end.

Top dogs always want slaves and sycophants and is usually willing to fight a civil war to get them. This was true in real life between 1811 and 1820. And it was true in a fictional movie called BLACK PANTHER.

Video: 3 minutes

Read More Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Christophe

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ON BEING BLACK AND SCARED OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY

It took me less than 10 seconds to realize this is probably true. It took me another 90 seconds to realize that I've probably had this in the back of my mind since I was a small child.

So many racist actions have been taken in the name of patriotism. So many. Immigration and "the wall" are just the latest.

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FAKE DEEP

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film and poem by Cecile Emeke

"If I hear one more poem written by a man
telling women how to live their lives by policing
their clothes,
bodies,
sexuality,
make up use,
reading habits,
exercise regimes
and cooking skills,
I’m going to slap somebody…

STACEY ABRAMS RESPONDS TO TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION

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"Stacey Abrams, the rising political star who marshaled the power of black women voters but narrowly lost the Georgia governor’s race, will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald

Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address, congressional Democrats said Tuesday. The choice elevates Abrams in Democratic politics as the party looks to keep core supporters, such as black women who anchor the base, energized ahead of the 2020 congressional and presidential elections. It also sets up an implicit contrast with Trump, who has a history of questioning the intellect and integrity of nonwhite politicians. "

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