Un-Friggin'-Believable

When I came across this collection of unimaginably twisted nonsense I didn't believe it at first. I thought it must be a joke, because no one could seriously think this way.

Sadly, I was wrong.

And to think it came out on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. You've come a long way, baby...

The Racial Implications of Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance

(Note: For those of you, like me, who had better things to do (like get a root canal, or clean the dog crap out of the yard, or watch grass grow, or...) than watch the VMA (Video Music Awards) the other night, evidently Miley Cyrus shocked the audience by wearing a skimpy costume and gyrating lewdly around the stage. Silly me - I thought that's what they all did. Anyway...)

...Miley's performance last night, and the subsequent ignoring of the racial implications of what she did is just the latest incident in the long line of things that shows me as a black woman, that white feminism does not want me, or care to have me.

Racial implications?!? She acted like a tramp. That transcends racial lines - or so I thought.

...can we talk about the problematic and racist nature of her performance? Her literal use of people as props? Her association of her newfound sexuality with the traditional codifiers of black female culture, thereby perpetuating the Jezebel stereotype that black women are lewd, lascivious and uncontrollably sexualized?

There's more such claptrap at the link, but I won't waste your time or mine by subjecting you to it.

I guess I missed the class where I was taught that "black women women are lewd, lascivious and uncontrollably sexualized."

So did Condoleezza Rice, Crystal Wright, Star Parker, Kay Coles James, and many other black women who are too busy trying to improve things in their community than to sit around and dream up ways to twist everything into some demented form of racism.

That whirling noise you hear is Dr. King spinning in his grave...