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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Somebody wrote about how Black Folks like to use their children to change the channel on the TV when the remote is missing, but people have taken this type of helpful advantage to the max! Too many times, I witness kids as young as 8 years old walking alone to a corner store to buy items […]

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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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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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Whether it was the glass top coffee table, end tables, or the glass dining room table, everybody had that one relative (or WAS the relative) with one of these home wreckers in the crib. You can also name the sibling or cousin who got the lights beat out of them for accidentally breaking the […]

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I wish I could track down the statistics on the African American presence in the show “American Idol”. I believe we would surely see a noticeably high trend. Since the jook joint days of shucking’ and jiving’ us black folks have been talent showin’ it up. The truth of the matter is we love contests: […]

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From “Perspectives: The Status of African-American Women”
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux - Article - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Through the lens of the third burden, aspects of African-American women’s depiction in popular culture become partly understandable, though wholly unacceptable. The rap music artists who insist on portraying African-American women as sexual objects, as “-itches” and […]

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Of course all things Obama are very popular with Black Folks right now, so there are lots of Barack related emails forwards going around in African American circles. Here’s an email forward comparing Michelle Obama’s background to other First Ladies.
Subject: “Look at the First Lady’s backgrounds compared to Michelle Obama’”
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama […]

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Some of you have had some questions…
As you know (if you read the homepage), this site is not yet finished. I know what most of you have come here for. You’re looking for a black version of Stuff White People Like. I love that site, but sorry, can’t help you. That […]

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