Girl, Ebony

theblackdripsgold:

Just a weight off of my shoulders.  I feel really blessed. I know it’s nothing big, but I’m hoping to make moves - and that this will lead to bigger and better things. 

Watch an excerpt from the new version here. 

Watch the 3 minute version here.

(via mrmoneda)

Tracking the #youtriedit tag is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

On a related note, I love Black people.

dearebonyandjon:

My favorite memory of Roger Ebert has nothing to do with a film review.

Years ago I was watching the NAACP Image Awards and he was in attendance with his wife, Chaz. Steve Harvey was the host. He was going around the audience to various attendees in what must have been some need to stretch time. Upon finding Roger without Gene Siskel, he asked him “where’s your partner?” Without missing a beat, Roger grabbed Chaz’ hand, lifted it and said “right here.”

Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, acquaintance rape, Tyler Perry

Carolyn Edgar may be my new favorite person.

Of course, Perry also is out to punish Judith for turning her back on the Lord. Judith’s downfall is foreshadowed when she starts dressing like Kim Kardashian and drinking alcohol. In this sense, it may not matter to the film’s overall morality message whether Harley rapes or seduces Judith. Either she consented, or she asked for it. Notably, Perry screened this film for 100 pastors prior to its release. They gave him their blessings. That fact may be more troubling than the film itself.

I admit Tyler Perry’s films are not for me. Perry has achieved tremendous success by making films that are not only NOT aimed at people like me, but which are derisive of ambitious, professional black women like me.  I’m sure many excuses will be made for how this pivotal “seduction” scene isn’t rape, or how I’m just a hater — the usual response to those who criticize Perry’s movies. Whatever.

I will never understand this man’s popularity.

Long and spoilertastic and you still need to read it:

Where before, I argued that in this new world, women were to be protected while men of color occupied a liminal space, it now appears that the white men have closed ranks and cemented their power.

And race? Race has become a mess — an offensive mess — where African-American men have become interchangeable, replaceable parts and where Glenn, who is Asian-American, suffered the ignominy of being tortured into giving up valuable information about the group and who was rendered helpless to protect his girlfriend, Maggie, from being sexually assaulted. While it was Maggie who was sexually assaulted, the writers made the sexual assault all about Glenn — his failure to protect Maggie, his anger that this had happened to her — to  the point where he was unable to offer to her the comfort she sought from him. His shame overrode her need for help recovering from what had happened to her.

When Michonne shows up at the prison later in the season, she doesn’t speak much. She grunts, in fact; she is rendered as near-animalistic.

When Rick returns to the prison, he chooses to talk to the following people about whether he should go through with the decision to turn over Michonne. Hershel. Daryl. And Merle. Merle — who beat up Glenn and took Maggie to the governor — Merle, who has functioned previously as the person where all of the show’s racial problems are located. Rick doesn’t talk to Glenn. And he doesn’t ask a single woman in the group.

You can be mad if you want because you love the show oh so much. Claim racism and sexism are abounds everywhere. And it’s just a tv show about zombies. And blah blah blah. But beyond all that you know it’s true.