This conversation came up when Janice Littlejohn, my writing partner, were driving home from the “Los Angeles Times” book fair. We were driving down La Brea and saw a billboard of Idris Elba and mentioned that in an alternate universe where people rode unicorns to work and Twizzlers and gum drops were nutritious and polyandry was mandatory, that man could and would get it.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why New Jersey white women all what to look like umpa lompas?
What’s this chick want gay people to do, force themselves to mate with each other so when the race war starts?!
“The slave masters raped our black women for a long long time and black men sat back and watched, psychologically how can you blame black men for being inconsciously turned on by white women? Men forget that thier deep seated hate for the white man inturns make them want their women lighter skin.”
Will it be like the two-year-old who doesn’t want anyone else to play with her toys?
After May 15, I’ll be expecting to be on your Christmas, Kwanza and Hannukah cards because the mother of all book signings is happening in Los Angeles, and boy oh boy, we’ve got some goodies for only the first 25 people who arrive at Eso Wan book store–you know that one, where BARACK OBAMA and BILL CLINTON came down from Heaven to sign their books. And because I know people, I’ve got some folks really, REALLY excited about getting all of your First Date Ready (FDR). We want you to be FDR inside AND out, so get a relationships book like “Swirling” to get your mind right, and I’ll take care of the rest.
This film takes place during the 1950s in the deep South where racial prejudice is an accepted norm and the one drop rule was still boldly and openly enforced. Black girls were expected to lower their eyes in the presence of a white man or woman. In many ways it was a simpler time and yet backward in almost every sense of the word. (Europe WAS much more evolved when it came to race in those days. No wonder black fled there by the droves.)
A major issue is that when a group of African Americans try to other the undesirables that exist within our ethnic group, they get hit with the “Uncle Tom”/”Traitor to their race” label. The idea being that WE need to stick together NO MATTER WHAT (level of dysfunction must be allowed or tolerated) in order survive as a single race.
I’ve never walked on water nor went to medical school, but I’ve been dubbed, “Dr. Black Woman, MD” and have just been paged to the OR.
If were born in the 60′s and 70′s, you know this woman, and chances are, you wanted to BE this woman.
So today Janice and I were at the Los Angeles Times book festival today passing these out…
Disgusting. Racist. Insensitive. Those are the words being used to describe a performance art piece which was created by Afro-Swedish artist Makode Linde and put on display for World Art Day in Sweden.
A study released by professors from the University of St. Andrews concludes that having the right accent and background goes a long way towards making sure that your resume (or “CV” as the Brits call it) shows up in front of person who can actually get you hired for a job in the entertainment industry.