For Brown Girls wrote
Chescaleigh’s (the creator of Sh*t White Girls say… to Black Girls) segment on Anderson Cooper today! I love the way she speaks & her eyeshadow is so pretty! She handles tough questions so well and holds her own! Go Francesca!!
I have a girl-crush on her. >8D
In a related post, watermeloncholy wrote in response to NPR’s article ‘S- - - White Girls Say’ Parody: Offensive Or Funny?:
I think some people need to take a class on parody and satire and maybe even racism. Parodying offensive shit that people say isn’t racism. The point of that video was to make some hilarious social commentary and open up the conversation to address why certain things—that so many black women hear on a regular basis—are actually offensive. The point is to get people to examine their behaviour and think about what they’re saying. Commenting on racism itself isn’t racist; where the hell does this idea come from? Why are people so quick to claim that discussing racism makes racism worse? How does that even work? How is that even logical? Why is it that people just shut down when people of colour attempt to talk about how casual racism hurts them? Why must the conversation always be about how people of colour are hurting white people’s feelings (Because oh no, how dare POC talk about how white people who say things like this make them feel! HOW DARE THEY!).
Truth. The offended women in the video were making me feel awkward, but mostly upset, that they watched the video and missed the whole point.
(Source: forbrowngirls)
