When I was intentionally dating, I realized how often times both parties were showing up on their best behavior. I eventually arrived at the conclusion that intentional dating is really performative, and from a communication perspective, a rhetorical performance at best. Both parties are trying hard to gain credibility (ethos), tugging at emotions through intentional short stories and experiences (pathos), and even logical appeals sometimes—It’s a huge performance; all...
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Listen. Black folks have always been problematic for Black folk’s liberation. Allow me to explain. Anytime there have been substantial, tangible movements to help us, some of the biggest and loudest detractors have been Black people. We can’t get out of our own way in some instances, and it’s frustrating. When the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized in 1955, some of the loudest detractors were “us.” Some of the...
Bruh please turn your volume all the way up and listen closely! I’m crying laughing at this one! Black couples going hiking might be my new favorite content after this video! Lmao! Shout out to TheClassiiics for putting a smile on my face today! Y’all be sure to find us and follow us on all social platforms for more unapologetically Black content, information, events, and exclusives. Link right here!
Being a great writer means, well, how the fuck should I know? I’m just so-so. But I THINK it means a lot of things. A lot of similar attributes are universally attached to all great writers, with one of them being vulnerability. Entertainingly vulnerable is a chore. A writer like Kendrick Lamar has the gift of letting us, the stranger; and us, his reader, into his space while keeping...
1.) Kendrick, like me, is an active member of the “N***as who can still keep a head full of a hair and a reasonable hairline intact well into their 30’s” Club. 2.) “There will never be a music video broken down more than Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’” Black Twitter: Hold my Casamigos 3.) That quote, “I am. All of us.” kind of left me stomped. What is Kendrick...
