You could write a small book about the beauty accoutrements that white women claim not to understand and yet consume regularly. It’s one of that tribe’s odder performances.
They pretend to be totally befuddled by weaves and yet these are sold at every Walmart and have been for decades walmart.com/ip/SAYFUT-Hair…
They claim not to know about acrylic nails and yet we can’t be the only people keeping these in business kissusa.com/nails/kiss-sal…
They giggle at the black hair care aisle because “ewwwww hair gel” and yet I’ve had this smeared all over me by white girls since the early 1980s
Anyway, they be lying because it’s one of the way white racial identity boundaries are made etc etc
I saw that Quill Pen lady’s tweet. That kind of hyper ignorance is a performance, usually undertaken by someone with the inherited privilege of whiteness but with a missing key credential like family, wealth, education, good molars or something similar.
Anyway, the next time that white lady at work or wherever pretends not to understand your new ponytail or braids or inches, just know that heffa is playing social dominance games on your phone.
Ask her about her roots and walk off.
If you can’t tell, I hate this performance. You just knit 1 purl 2’d 28 dildo cozies as a gag gift last month, Karen. But you don’t understand the gist of Black girl’s new ponytail?? Really?
That’s a pretty basic logic jump, Karen. So either you’re lying or you’re dumbest #%!? in here. Which is it, Karen?? Which is it???
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A couple months ago I did a very systematic, possibly criminally nerdy overhaul of my whole packing situation. A label maker and packing cubes and diagrams were involved. It has already paid off. So much less stressful packing for a work trip now.
The biggest improvement is having a complete set of travel duplicates for all my hair and beauty crap. It was such a hassle with COVId (and not cheap) but now my bag is always packed with every essential I need. I just throw underwear and clothes in the bag.
I even keep a set of workout clothes and shoes in the bag. That was a big deal, too. I guess I try to do stupid exercise now or whatever.
Can I just say that solidarity/organizing events aren’t supposed to be like MLM parties where you don’t tell people why you invited them. I mention this because people keep trying to stealth recruit me to things.
I’m no pro but I’m not a novice either. You don’t trick people into an action! If you have to lie, even by omission, about what the action is then you’re basically Amway.
I’m going to say more than I normally would because I’m kinda livid. Someone invited me to dinner and then 20 minutes into says, “so there’s a reason we asked you here” AND IT WASN’T TO GIVE ME A MILLION DOLLARS.
You know how most financial advice is, “be born rich or hate yourself until you become less poor”? I hate that advice. This week on @HearToSlay we had the financial advice we wish existed. The good brother @KieseLaymon joins us. apple.co/slay to listen
You might also like Kie and I in Critical Sociology talking about the intimate life of money when you’re Black, real Black, and aspirations find you somehow. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
We are also joined by the loveliest sister financial planner, Anna N’Jie Conte. We literally asked her to bring us the advice for people who have “cousins”. And she did. daretodreamplanning.com/meet-anna
Another week and another "study" about how morning people are better than night people. I don't get what they're so pleased about. Ooh ooh look at your working harder for less before noon and not having any friends who will tell you that its annoying.
Maybe being a night person is how I contribute to the revolution. Have you ever thought about that??
"People who wake up early live longer!" Wow, 1.45 more years they have to wake before the sun. No thanks.
I know it’s a hot market so sellers can do whatever. But builders should still get a stager without such a strong affinity for colonialism cause this is not cute
Anyway when people ask me what they can do with a social science degree, I’m going to add, “not choose the racist decor items”.
Based on comments to my mood social observations #onhere, I hypothesize that white people hear Black people at some register that triggers their primal racism brain. It’s the only way to explain what people come up with.