Nobody does it like you anymore

Ariana Grande is darkening her skin and changing her features to look Racially Ambiguous to sell to a wider audience and it needs to be addressed

Black people, who invented hip-hop, jazz, and rock and roll, have long been tastemakers of American cool. In many ways, fashion, music, and slang are dictated by black people no matter how little credit they get for it..

In fact:

“Our research shows that black consumer choices have a ‘cool factor’ that has created a halo effect, influencing not just consumers of color but the mainstream as well,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.

Thus, presumably, if you want to be cool and sell records, you ought to start acting black. In fact, it’s great if you’re not black and act black because you get the benefits of being cool without the baggage and limitations of being subjected to racism.

Its what the Kardashians, Iggy, Justin Bieber, Ariana, and alot of other celebrities do in order to rise in popularity as well as be accepted into the black community.

  Grande’s music is largely influenced by hip-hop and R&B, meaning that in order to build a fanbase, she needs to court listeners (ahem, black folk) with those musical preferences. Grande, who is quick to shut down any perceptions about her ethnicity being anything but Italian. Most people presume Grande is Latinx, not necessarily black, when mistaking her race, but I am here to tell you, most Latinos are part black, sis. 

Thus, for years, Latinx women have been sounding the alarm: Grande is doing brown face. Look at her tan!! Look at how she speaks! Look at her music!

The point is: Most of us don’t get to pick and choose which parts of blackness we get to have — only white folks seem to have that luxury. And we need to give her the SAME ENERGY we give the kardashians.

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Y’all fucking remember when he said “If someone tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t”?

Now he’s out there making transphobic jokes and appealing to the right wing crowd. Look out for fake woke assholes.

If there’s any 2019 resolution we should be making, it should be leaning into media that makes us question our white privilege more. Let’s go listen to PoC, women, LGBTQIA+ and other creators.

People like Roseanne and Louis CK are a lesson in how you can redpill yourself into being a right-wing hateful bigot by getting to a place where you don’t question your own mistakes, your own behavior, your own morals on the regular. Doubly-so when you get older and decide that somehow, you’re done learning - that seems to be when the rot creeps in.

I’m fourty-fucking-five years old, and I damn well do my best to stay connected to what people half my age are saying and doing because there’s this point where, when we decide we’re done learning, we just turn into this echo chamber. And that’s when that sneering divide comes along that right-wing hate-media loves to exploit.

You’re not supposed to stop growing until you stop breathing.

HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’RE AWAKE

HE KNOWS IF YOU’VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD

SO BE GOOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

princess caroline, knowing she’ll have to do damage control: