I called my good friend up today and asked her if she wanted to play basketball and she laughed mad hard
She suggested hookah instead
Yo I can’t take it anymore
I knew I would be just fine being an educator when my favorite teacher back in the day gave me the password to his school computer and it was “thesehoes” and a variety of numbers
Finding GOOD sea moss is impossible nowadays. I found some gel in superfresh the other day and I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. I need to know where it’s sourced every time for this price.
Sorry but the discourse around Tyla’s identity has exposed something that deserves to be called out: expecting Africans to understand themselves primarily through a Black American racial framework, while refusing to engage with African’s countries’ racial hierarchies and colonial histories, is a form of xenocentrism that has already become xenophobic in this case.
At some point there has to be intellectual curiosity from
BA. Black Americans are not the only Black people with histories of racialisation, colonialism or oppression. South Africa’s racial classifications for example emerged from a distinct colonial and apartheid system with its own categories, meanings and consequences. Those histories cannot simply be overwritten by an American understanding of race, simply because Tyla wants to market herself to the BA audience. It doesn’t work like that.
Tyla did not invent South Africa’s racial hierarchy any more than Black Americans invented Jim Crow or the one-drop rule. Both are products of white supremacy, but they developed differently in different places. Expecting her to reject the identity that was historically imposed, negotiated and understood within her own country simply to satisfy an American racial framework is insane.
I followed a Puerto Rican influencer on TikTok and maybe like a day later he made a post saying boriquas calling themselves Taina instead of gender neutral Taino are not real boriquas
You can never win