The Life & Opinions of a Late GenX-er/Early Millennial
Happy New Year! 2015, like every other year, had it’s ups and downs. However, it’s important not to let the year’s lows overshadow the highs. When I considered writing an end of the year retrospective, my face scrunched up in disgust as I reflected on 2015. Not my favorite year by a longshot. So much of it felt like a continuous struggle – like I’m in the middle of a significant lesson which I’ve tired of learning.
In 7th grade, I pleaded with my mother to let me change my name to one less “black.” I didn’t use those words exactly, but I’d gleaned by then that, just like my dark skin, my name was considered inferior somehow. We’d just moved to Texas from Georgia where I’d experienced for the first time the anguish and confusion of being the only black girl in my “gifted and talented” classes full of white kids. I was in the midst of my racial identity crisis.
A few days ago, rapper Nicki Minaj tweeted out her frustration that her big booty-full, controversy-generating Anaconda video was overlooked for a Video of he Year Award by MTV. Soon after, media darling and America’s archetypal sweetheart, singer Taylor Swift, inserted herself into the situation, which was NOT ABOUT HER, tweeting Minaj with her hurt feelings and ivory tears.
This week’s Friday Five is dedicated to the tweets about the protests and related events in Baltimore and around the US.
On Sunday, after the Academy Awards, Giuliana Rancic, co-host of E!’s Fashion Police, made a contentious statement in reference to the locs worn at the ceremony by 18-year old actress Zendaya. In a previous post, I touched on the complicated relationship many black women have with their hair.
In this week’s Friday Five, read the emotional tweets post #FergusonDecision, also #BlackFriday madness, Thanksgiving funnies and more!
In this week’s Friday Five: Weekly Twitter Roundup – Nobody liked the Aaliyah Movie, CNN’s Don Lemon stepped in it again; Solange’s Wedding exploded heads, #Snowvember and more!
Reactions to Kim Kardashian’s nudie shots, everyone loves Rokerthon, cranky snow tweets & more in the Weekly Twitter Roundup! See the funny tweets you missed this week.
Actor Jesse Williams goes in on racial inequality and offensive Halloween costumes; candy corn: good or gross; is catcalling street harassment; and more, in this week’s Twitter roundup!
If there’s one thing the internet does well, it’s obsess over pay homage to kitty cats and #NationalCatDay proved no different.
Here are five things you may have missed on Twitter this week. 1. Renee Zellweger strolled onto the red carpet wearing a different face this week. Of course, Twitter had something to say about it. #ReneeZellweger