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I decided I needed something real and grounding, unlike the news cycle. So we are settling in to see what this #LoveIsBlind is all about. Some good nice moral wholesome television.
Y’all they keep saying this “experiment” obscures race, class and appearance. Do psychologists not know that we are uniquely attuned to race and class markers in voice, discourse and beliefs?
She knows it is love because he has a tattoo of a cross on his ribs that had two empty spaces for his future kids’ names, which I think we can all agree is extrely biblical.
Wtf just happened
Is this MFer crying?
Tall said he isn’t watching the show; he is too busy watching me watch the show. I’m like
If you leave a reality show with a 24-year-old short king was it even a reality show?
For the record, I believe this Jessica and Barnett relationship is exactly how white people mate don’t @ me
Lauren said she can still want black people to win with a white thin-lipped king on her arm.
“I literally seent a ladybug today”. Ma’am I had to turn on the subtitles
When a man tells you feels like he has been left many times? That’s your sign to leave that man immediately. Don’t be a adventurer, girl! This water is as wet as it appears.
Admittedly I don’t know the right time to tell someone about your sexuality but I am certain that it should happen before you propose.
These two white girls talking about Burnett as their man like they are besties and man white women culture is weird
A short king can’t get chose even when the women can’t see him. Damn.
Me: “Rory is a messy bitch!”
Him: “He even got a messy name!”
Every sister has had to listen to a Jessica come to work and tell her everything that a Barnett did last night. Where is HR?!!
OMG SHE IS GOING TO TRY TO COME BACK TO SHORT KING OMG
We are so worried over here about what Kelly is wearing. So worried.
Who among us doesn’t look at Barnett and thinks, “here is a man with the emotional capacity to hear my abortion story”? Amirite
He gave her an empty box and I am SCREAMING
I will keep asking this: Who. The. Fuck. Is. Rory?!!! He pops up but he isn’t with anyone and he is doing guided bro media ratings and he is messy.
Tall says Rory is Mixoplick? We have to say his name backwards to send him back to his own galaxy? Does anyone get this reference?
There is definitely a Barnett and Jessica sex tape
Okay her name maybe isn’t Jessica. But whoever that is.
Okay it’s amber.
Lauren keeps treating Carlton (I cant keep these names straight) like a zoo experiment and I am kinda here for it
Carlton performing toxic masculinity because he is insecure about being bisexual is a mess
Diamond one of those girls who will box you, too. Ooh baby no what is you doing
Mark my words: GG is crazy.
Let me tell you when this white man nailed the sister. He told her, “I am going to take care if you”. And then he said he likes her bonnet. They gonna make it.
Jessica has a very high opinion of herself. Which is weird because...
Cameron:
Moar Cameron:
Cameron has already bought three copies of #HairLove
Carlton needs to be on a therapy show and not a marriage show
What even is the point of having a bisexual husband if he is going to have the emotional toolkit of 50 Cent?
Carlton is a toddler.
This is everything I design my life to never experience. Between them they knew 100 words and they tried to use them to express 5,000 emotions. That can’t work.
I think we knew who Carlton was about when he walked out of that first pod because a woman was talking too much for him.
He put her on tv to call her a bitch. Sir.
When Jessica sees Barnett she is going to turn into the wicked witch of the west.
Lauren got all the sense. “I thought he would look like a bro and he does.” Sisters best knowing.
Did Damien just offer up a play by play of sleeping with GG? Is he 12? Even the other dudes are uncomfortable.
Cameron is like, “we enjoyed the nice weather”. He ain’t saying ISH! 😂😂 You a real one, Cameron.
Short King is not being treated right. This is so bananas because Jessica. Is. Not. A. Prize. She has the dead-eyed stare of a woman who has boiled a bunny. She is lucky she passed a background check. How dare she mistreat Short King this way.
Oh! It’s happening! IT IS HAPPENING Image
You know how in professional boxing they have the media days and the big talker sells his wolf tickets that crystallizes for his opponent why the dude must be obliterated?

Hi. Image
Amber gonna light. That. Ass. Up.
Oh Jessica done got white girl wine wasted and the mask is OFF. Whew
Does Short King’s mother have a Twitter??? I need someone to swoop in here
GG is off her rocker. That’s been determined. Now I am also questioning Damien.
Cameron keeps sucking in his gut and that’s how you gotta keep em, just a little off kilter.
HE AINT GOT NO JOB I KNEW IT
It’s not that any woman should sacrifice physical attraction in a relationship. It’s that Jessica is a dead-eyed mess at fish who deserves no good proteins, carbs or days. That’s the issue.
When white women start doing that hair thing? It’s an act of aggression. You gotta shave her head and kick her in her throat to balance the scales.
Never ever ever let a white woman flip her hair at your love interest. Never.
Is no one going to tell Short King what’s really happening??
Amber will marry Barnett if she has to drag his stuffed corpse down the aisle. I respect it.
Episode 7. They’re going “home”.
Tall keeps telling me Short King’s real name and my brain simply cannot hold on to it.
I cannot wait to see Jessica’s mother. That will tell the rest of this messy story.
Lauren’s pet peeves are my pet peeves. You use my toothbrush and I kill your dreams.
Lauren is every third black woman who lives in Atlanta. Door knockers, beautiful skin and a vision board.
Short King has roommates lol
Damien is just hoping this house of his closes the deal. He is still selling the mid and I, for one, appreciate it
Cameron is practicing his cornrows and picking out onesies with Maya Angelou quotes on them and he don’t care what you think
You can smell Barnett’s house through the television.
Chile, amber says she wants to be a stay-at-home mom in Barnett’s filthy little house. Tell me there isn’t a lid for every pot.
Amber jumped right in with her credit score. This is a lot of adulting coming at Barnett awfully fast.
Oh yeah y’all knew it was coming. Let’s talk about Amber and this student loan debt! She is the worse case scenario: debt but no degree. And she is either in deferment or in default.
That’s why she has a credit card for make-up only. You gotta be extremely fine when you’re this fucked up
You can’t have cellulite, a good baby gut, a gray hair, nothing. You got to be a dime plus nine. She isn’t just broke. She gonna be broke. Was planning on living broke. Now we see why she is in a hurry to lock this man-child down.
Well, well, well, this is taking an interesting turn. Amber has no job, no credit, possibly bad credit, doesn't have a real job, used to be "kinda homeless" and only works when she wants to.
Barnett said, "do you at least pay the minimums though?" And I screamed.
We are getting a much fuller picture of Ms. Amber. From abortion story to stay-at-home-mom wannabe to Ulta credit card debt. Momma has been waiting to be saved her whole young life.
Jessica has perfectly basic af design taste and I enjoy it enough. And here's what's wild: Short King would actually totally be a family dude. I believe him but I also just love Short King.
You’re going to have to kill her with a stake through the heart. She is never going to stop coming
You have a desperate, homeless woman willing to reproduce for stability and a narcissistic drunk who didn’t get the mirror on the wall that will always tell her she is fairest of them all. Someone will have to die to make this stop.
You’re telling me that Short King has never had a single other blonde pale little woman want him? Anyone even slightly less of a mess???
She has done anything for him but somehow just being blonde and thin is enough to make him put up with verbal abuse. This is wild.
What just happened
GG lives in LaLa Land and not in a good way.
When she said she had been military and only has one $700 limit credit card I feel like Barnett should have clued in to Amber’s social class. Which is poor, to be clear.
“Don’t marry some whore off a reality tv show” - Damien’s mother and also a Big Mood.
Kelly’s parents are so normal it’s like seeing martians after these hours upon hours of madness. Just a little hippy couple who maybe makes wine on the weekends and composts.
Momma Short King has arrived. FINALLY
Does Short King know that you can just *buy* Italian beefs?
Understand that if I take a white man home to Vivian and he starts rapping? You won’t be able to watch tv for a month. Vivian would destroy the electrical grid.
Let me tell you how men ain’t ish. Barnett brought Amber home to GOPville wearing over the knee boots and did not prep her AT ALL.
She has broken at least five social class rules back-to-back. She is loud. She took a beer to the head. She is wearing show girl boots. She snorts like a hyena. She joked. All things I like in a woman but middle class conservative family culture tends to be less forgiving.
You can actually bring a middle class (preferably upper middle class) non white woman home to many middle class families like Barnett’s before you bring a poor white woman home. Maybe not a black woman but definitely a Latina or East Asian American. Not SE Asian so much.
Oh no Cameron wore that awful shirt to meet Lauren’s dad! The one that is like a Henley but was somehow shrunk and maybe was also a stitched crooked? I hate this shirt. Oh no.
What’s that called? The discount clothes that have an error?? Something something bin maybe?
Daddy said SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS WHO YOU KNOW BLACK
There was never a doubt in my mind that Cameron knew Lauren was black in the pods and that was a significant part of the appeal. No white dude takes the bonnet business that smooth without prior training.
I told you, Jessica is never going to stop.
Jessica’s screen time needs a trigger warning. This particular brand of white womanhood is TRIGGERING
Short King is going to date some non-crazy woman one day and he will put her through 5 years of punishment for what Jessica is about to do to him. Poor future Almost Mrs Short King.
Unpopular opinion: Kelly wants to be married. She is going to make him marry her before they have sex because she is afraid he won’t marry her after they do.
They are trying to tell me that Jessica has a black bestie? Let me put in my black ethnic iSpy glasses because no way is a great migration descendant of a black woman putting up with Jessica
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