I know there a quite a few black men who may think brightly painted toes are cute on black women, but I’m not going to attribute this beloved thing to both black men and women.  For real, there may be a few brothers (You know I love the KIDS!!  Ooo woo! Ooo WOO!) who paint […]

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I’m the best, Mayne! Only black people can make light of a video like this. Lord Have mercy, another black video phenomenon (move over chocolate rain). The “afrospere” is buzzing with video of this kid, remixes…etc. Is this a program that is being produced at a high school…in someone’s basement…what?? […]

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Gone are the days of Mary, Mark, Luke and John. No more handing down of family names such as Hortense, Beulah Mae, and Chastity. Now, we are at liberty to name our offspring as we see fit, and boy do we love us some vowels. As a matter of fact, I believe that somewhere out there, is […]

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A big fist and SOOOUUUULLLL go out to my boy Don Cornelius, creator of the long running hit show “Soul Train”, for making this a “Stuff Black People Love” favorite. Not only has this long standing tradition reached the 70’s funk wild children (our parents), but this phenomenon has reached even today’s hip hopping, R&B’ing […]

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You know us folks love to debate- anytime, anywhere, and loudly! We pontificate on corners, buses, trains, planes, cars, barbershops, beautyshops, grocery stores, you name it. Most Afro-Americans of any age and life station have at some point started or jumped into a heated debate from something as trivial as who is the greatest emcee […]

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The marriage of two of the most lucrative popular culture icons in the country, race notwithstanding, is apparently not news. It’s hard to imagine a figure more ubiquitous than Jay-Z to hip hop or Beyonce to pop, but I guess if Eminem married Britney that would be a big yawn too if they did so […]

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Oh, my goodness!  Black People LOVE to see White People walking around in the cold with shorts on.  We talk about those White People so bad in malls, public spaces…on the job…EVERYWHERE.  This phenomenon seems especially popular with young, White men.  To see the “mighty white man”, “the good ole boy” shivering like he’s not […]

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Are you a member of the Justin Timberlake Fan Club? I almost was, until he let Janet Jackson’s breast fly free in the wind on a cold, windy Superbowl Sunday, (she’s lucky she had that giant nipple piercing weighing that big’un down). Brothas, how many Eminem cds do you own? What about that one white […]

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Our counterparts love recycled, fashionable, brightly-colored (and overpriced) designer plastic bags. But we African Americans love the good old-fashioned plastic grocery bag.  Erykah Badu, in her infinite wisdom even sang about it in her song, Bag Lady. Think about it, I know you have a plastic grocery bag collection somewhere in your home. Some of […]

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Black people love “chinkiness”, i.e, a non politically correct and supposed likeness of or to something or someone of Asian descent. We frequent Asian beauty supply stores with ferocity, we love that 10 piece rib tip and fries special at the China Kitchen, and God bless the lil’ black child that’s got slanted eyes- she […]

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