Random Thoughts XVI

[Chalm Down]

What a change from Sons of Anarchy to Calvin Klein

Actually I think Kobe approves



I need to re-watch Sons. 'Twas a good show.

[QUIZ]

A couple of good movies that I want to see.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv554B7YHk4[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2ebPxhoLs[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue4PCI0NamI[/youtube]

I'm actually planning on reading the novel that The Martian is based on within the next few days, I heard its good and I wonder how the movie adaptation will compare. They usually don't

Gotta stay entertained during the offseason

[KingDavid]

Hopefully whatever firesale the Nuggets have we get some of the overflow. We don't have much to offer unfortunately but it would be nice.

Explain your sig pretty please!

lol. Its just a couple of Black girls dancing a choreographed dance. The ht is a response to things that have been going on in social media lately but I don't want to sidetrack the thread. Cause once I get going lol

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

[Shewasfly]

Explain your sig pretty please!

lol. Its just a couple of Black girls dancing a choreographed dance. The ht is a response to things that have been going on in social media lately but I don't want to sidetrack the thread. Cause once I get going lol

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

[Shewasfly]

Damn. That was a long post. I'm sure you were not expecting anything that deep either. I told you King David.

[gom]

lol. Its just a couple of Black girls dancing a choreographed dance. The ht is a response to things that have been going on in social media lately but I don't want to sidetrack the thread. Cause once I get going lol

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

Some good points here.

By the way, your previous sig was also spot on.

[KingDavid]

lol. Its just a couple of Black girls dancing a choreographed dance. The ht is a response to things that have been going on in social media lately but I don't want to sidetrack the thread. Cause once I get going lol

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

LOL yeah I'm black. Jamaican and Haitian, in fact. #teamdarkskin Everyone in my family can dance except me . I use my height as an excuse and I'm sticking to it!

I just don't do much of social media right now because school takes up too much of my time. I got all of them but I really only use IG and a little Snapchat. I'm on the fence about delete my FB & twitter though. But yeah, this is nothing new, especially with black women. Coincidentally, I remember saying the same thing to my sisters about them exploiting something that was negative when black women did it but then it was suddenly "okay". Remember the and looting during the floods some years ago? And that infamous pic on the news where the media portrayed the blacks were "looting" but the whites were something along the lines of "resourceful"? Aggravating stuff. That's the world we live in now. I have personal examples of some silly stuff. I'm a tall black guy and so the stigma is that I'm some dumb jock...far, faaaar from it. But like you, I could be here all day. Dope that everyone stood up for themselves and put down that disgusting racist undertone of that ht. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, imo.

This the only forum you frequent? I'm gonna start tagging you on the Knicks board. Their OT stuff is great at times and it'd be cool to have another voice in there.

[Shewasfly]

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

Some good points here.

By the way, your previous sig was also spot on.

Thanks gom! If you have any thoughts to add please share too, I always like hearing how others see these things too.

[KingDavid]

Damn. That was a long post. I'm sure you were not expecting anything that deep either. I told you King David.

LOL you think that's deep?! I'm REALLY gonna start tagging you on the Knicks board. You'll see soon. Something will pop up sooner or later. Then you'll be swimming in thread full of deep posts

[Shewasfly]

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

LOL yeah I'm black. Jamaican and Haitian, in fact. #teamdarkskin Everyone in my family can dance except me . I use my height as an excuse and I'm sticking to it!

I just don't do much of social media right now because school takes up too much of my time. I got all of them but I really only use IG and a little Snapchat. I'm on the fence about delete my FB & twitter though. But yeah, this is nothing new, especially with black women. Coincidentally, I remember saying the same thing to my sisters about them exploiting something that was negative when black women did it but then it was suddenly "okay". Remember the and looting during the floods some years ago? And that infamous pic on the news where the media portrayed the blacks were "looting" but the whites were something along the lines of "resourceful"? Aggravating stuff. That's the world we live in now. I have personal examples of some silly stuff. I'm a tall black guy and so the stigma is that I'm some dumb jock...far, faaaar from it. But like you, I could be here all day. Dope that everyone stood up for themselves and put down that disgusting racist undertone of that ht. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, imo.

This the only forum you frequent? I'm gonna start tagging you on the Knicks board. Their OT stuff is great at times and it'd be cool to have another voice in there.

I lurk a couple of other forums but get too gun shy to sign up. I know shy isn't exactly what ppl would use to describe me on here lol but here things are a lot less chaotic and focused than other places so its easier to be that way here. I agree with you on the social media thing. I mostly stay away because I really feel like people have started to take it way too seriously. Like its people I know in real life on there fronting all the time about how much money they have and trying to play up their lives so much. Its like is it really that serious But I absolutely love the more socially aware, intelligent parts of social media though. Honestly it keeps me informed better than the news sometimes.

And Jamaican and Haitian, good mix! You should at least know how to wine though (or the male version of it? lol). Do you country proud and learn boy!!

[Shewasfly]

Damn. That was a long post. I'm sure you were not expecting anything that deep either. I told you King David.

LOL you think that's deep?! I'm REALLY gonna start tagging you on the Knicks board. You'll see soon. Something will pop up sooner or later. Then you'll be swimming in thread full of deep posts

Deep in the sense that my post was about race and cultural appropriation and you were just trying to thirst

Do tag me though, I want to see. How funny that on the Knicks board of all places that that type of conversation would take place haha

[miamivice]

maybe posters could put all their gifs, bro love, circle jerk stuff in this thread instead of the other threads. wading through 20 pages of inbred jokes to find actual bball analysis and news is tedious. i get that we're never going back to the old days, but it's legit getting out of hand...

[xMADEinDADEx]

Anyone seen the trailers for:

Flash season 2, suicide squad, batman vs superman, and xmen apocalypse????

[DWadeno3]

lol. Its just a couple of Black girls dancing a choreographed dance. The ht is a response to things that have been going on in social media lately but I don't want to sidetrack the thread. Cause once I get going lol

Damn! I thought one of them was you. -pardon the thirst.

You can explain what's going on in this thread here. I'm all ears. Or eyes....and fingers?

lol @ the thirst!! No neither girls are me, but I did use to wear my hair that way and I do dance. I assume you aren't Black (or are you? I assume everyone here is non-Black ) so I will break it alllll the way down sorta.

Basically what's been happening for a long time to Black women is that we create something...like literally we become the originators of a specific style or trend or piece of fashion..and when it's associated with us it's given a demeaning description.

For instance, things like twerking became popular for a spell over the last couple of years, and it was always considered ghetto/trashy when Black women, who originated it, did it. Then, all of a sudden someone like Miley Cyrus does it, and it's her being "edgy" and "feminist". And obviously edgy has a much more positive connotation than the ghetto and trashy nicknames women like me had before when we were doing it. On top of that, it skyrocketed her fame, while a Black female artist can't get any shine in the music genre or dance style we created. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift also suddenly have Black women twerking in their videos when they have never been a fan of the culture before. They just exploit the trend and us without giving any proper due or allowing us to benefit in the same ways they do for what we originally brought to life. And this happens with sooo many things.

But that's just the background, and is sadly actually nothing new. The reason for the sig is that recently there was a twitter hashtag called #whitegirlsdoitbetter and it had a bunch of pictures of white women wearing their hair in cornrows, bantu knots, twerking, and all types of things that Black women created. And there was a lot of racist venom coming from white women basically gloating that they get to steal our trends and can do it better. So "Black Twitter" took over the hashtag and started posting beautiful pictures and gifs and videos of Black women doing the same where we absolutely blew them out the water. I mean the videos and pictures were not even comparable in terms of talent and physique and class and I was just blown away.

So I took one of the pics and made it my sig because I just wanted to show the pride I felt in response to the whole phenomenon. We're pretty resilient and I hope other Black girls, and other people in general see they can give us all the vitriol and we will still be great. I consider it Black girl magic that with all the negative press we still create a lot of things many who hate us want to mimic and be apart of it. And we do it in style.

Just my two cents as a white man: I don't think twerking helped Miley Cyrus' popularity, if anything twerking earned the "trash"-label because of her, not because of black girls to be honest. While not really following their music, I also don't see how some black girls twerking helped Taylor Swift or Katy Perry in any way.

As for the #whitegirlsdoitbetter garbage, that's jealousy, nothing else. Black girls have some very sexy features and two of them really show when twerking: 1) Great rhythm and athletic ability to perform it and 2) great a**es. When a black girl twerks, chances of me getting horny are significantly higher compared to a white girl simply due to these facts.

These insecurities on both sides of the fence are the main reason for the tension between the two races. Some white people always fear that black people being successful takes something away from them, while some black people will scream racism at every opportunity and respond in stupid manners such as the Eric Garner challenge. In my opinion, this is the foundation of everything that's being built on top of it, the jealousy, the hatred etc.

[JTayler]

"while some black people will scream racism at every opportunity and respond in stupid manners such as the Eric Garner challenge"

Just so that I'm clear, are you saying that Eric Garner's death had nothing to do with racism therefore the "Eric Garner challenge" was stupid?

[JTayler]

while some black people will scream racism at every opportunity and respond in stupid manners such as the Eric Garner challenge. In my opinion, this is the foundation of everything that's being built on top of it, the jealousy, the hatred etc.

Just so that I'm clear, are you saying that Eric Garner's death had nothing to do with racism therefore the "Eric Garner challenge" was stupid?

[JTayler]

Excuse my first post, had to redo it with a proper quote.

[DWadeno3]

while some black people will scream racism at every opportunity and respond in stupid manners such as the Eric Garner challenge. In my opinion, this is the foundation of everything that's being built on top of it, the jealousy, the hatred etc.

Just so that I'm clear, are you saying that Eric Garner's death had nothing to do with racism therefore the "Eric Garner challenge" was stupid?

My bad, I was referring to the Eric Sheppard challenge, don't know how I got those two confused with one another, must be the late hour I'm posting at over here.

The Eric Garner death was most likely motivated by racism and the protests in his case, such as the I can't breathe shirts, are justified and get the message across in the right way.

[JTayler]

My bad, I was referring to the Eric Sheppard challenge, don't know how I got those two confused with one another, must be the late hour I'm posting at over here.

The Eric Garner death was most likely motivated by racism and the protests in his case, such as the I can't breathe shirts, are justified and get the message across in the right way.

I never really paid attention to the Eric Sheppard case so I'm not going to comment on it right now. But yeah, I agree with your take on the Eric Garner case.

[xMADEinDADEx]

Just came back from watching antman. Not bad.