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@JamilahLemieux

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Writer+culture critic. Bylines: Vanity Fair, LA Times, the Cut, Playboy, the Nation, Essence, Slate. Amateur stand up.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2008
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
6 years
Being around men is an unpaid internship
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Jamilah Lemieux
7 years
Now that we’ve established that the alleged gunman was white and non-Muslim, here’s a forecast for the week to come:
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Have you met men?
@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
8 years
Why does Rihanna keep murdering men in music videos?
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Men who have actual relationships with women usually know this because they see us without makeup and even naked sometimes.
@NYMag
New York Magazine
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Man develops app to reveal what women look like without makeup
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Jamilah Lemieux
6 years
SHE WAS THERE TO FILE AN ORDER OF PROTECTION
@benjancewicz
Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) 
6 years
Black woman files for a protection order. White judge denies it. She gets upset & leaves. Judge chases her, grabs her by the neck, drags her back to the court, jails her for 3 days. Black Judge overrules him, releases the woman. White judge rage quits.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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"Nigger" is a racist synonym for "Black person" "White supremacist" is a term that refers to an actual set of behaviors/beliefs, Pecola.
@pastormarkburns
Pastor Mark Burns
7 years
Being called a White Supremacist when you're NOT should be as offensive as being called a Ni***r when you're NOT...
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7 years
Raped, murdered, frozen. And motherfuckers have spent all day telling girls how to avoid being like her. Fuck all of you.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Damn near every woman in this picture would have called the police on a hooded Black man with a blunt.
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ForbesWomen
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The marijuana industry is growing, and so is the percentage of women in it:
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Because he's smart enough to know that kids that small outgrow shoes in a matter of months? And that kids like glitter better than Jordans?
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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No matter what happens tonight, the fact that Donald Trump has gotten this far is a stain on America that can't be washed away.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Hug your Black daughter extra tight tonight, because the world outside your arms will literally discard her and then say it was her fault.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
7 years
Heterosexual friendship hours end promptly at 11:59, who knew
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so connected to a person I’ve never spoken with but I think he might be my cousin
@BenVolin
Ben Volin
6 years
Marshawn Lynch sits during the US national anthem, stands for Mexican anyhem
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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"FaceTime me right now, Marcus! I know your resting heart rate and this ain't it! You running at 3am?"
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Most meetings could be calls. Most calls could be emails. Most of us could work effectively with limited human interaction and have a truly wonderful life. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, no Q+A because see above.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
5 years
She got legacy admission on to The View
@justinbaragona
Justin Baragona
5 years
OF COURSE Meghan McCain thinks it's unfair to criticize legacy admissions at universities and military academies
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He looks like he's planning to write down whatever melody she's humming and steal that too.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Megyn Kelly said the teen girl assaulted by a cop during the infamous McKinnley pool party incident was “no saint either.”
@nbcwashington
NBC4 Washington
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"This must stop. The abuse of women, the shaming of them, the threatening, the retaliation"
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Surprise, surprise: who steps into help? The woman who would be the absolute last person to get aided by anyone. No one deserves Black women, I swear. We are Godly.
@yourrightscamp
Know Your Rights Camp
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Guy commuting on BART gets harassed, physically assaulted and called a “Chinese Ni**er” by a white male passenger.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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America is just one long Fyre Festival
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Jamilah Lemieux
5 years
Great answer to a terrible question.
@stephanieboland
Stephanie Boland
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Idris Elba knows the score
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Rich nigga, broke nigga, Trump nigga, woke nigga...still "nigga"
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
7 years
NEW: How Omarosa became the most "despised" person in the Trump White House
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Jamilah Lemieux
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5) The National Anthem at sports games will be used as a memorial and any athlete who doesn’t participate will be shamed as anti-American
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Jamilah Lemieux
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White women, don't think the Charlottesville photos let you off the hook for even a second. A lot of those men went home to cuddles and pie
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Jamilah Lemieux
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2) Vague chatter about mental health that doesn’t lead to any action other than further stigmatizing the mentally ill
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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I really, really want all the white folks who follow me to watch this. You don’t know how often we are spoken to like this and it may seem innocent but it is not okay. Esp. not to someone who is your elder (and an ICON!)
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Jamilah Lemieux
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"I thought I recognized you as the guy arrested for unrelated offenses over a decade ago in another state. Clobbering time!"
@courierjournal
Courier Journal
7 years
#BREAKING David Dao, the Elizabethtown doctor yanked from the United flight, has a troubled past in Kentucky
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Blue ain’t forget how they did Mom last year. God forgives, small children do not.
@BeyLegion
BEYONCÉ LEGION 𐚁
6 years
Blue 💙 #GRAMMYs
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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1)Thoughts and prayers from folks who could act to prevent this sort of thing but will instead work to ensure it happens again
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6) America will continue to sacrifice white lives in order to uphold the institutions (guns guns guns) designed to protect them from POC.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Every outlet and person who is dragging that young lady, who buried 22 fans that were murdered at her concert a freaking year ago, into this tragedy AS IT BREAKS should be ashamed of themselves.
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4) The president will make a mindblowingly offensive and/or tone deaf comment about this tragedy (worse than “warmest condolences”)
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Jamilah Lemieux
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FYI, I conducted the interview with Chance in May. He spoke clearly and unequivocally in support of BW and the victims.
@chancetherapper
Chance The Rapper
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Jamilah Lemieux
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“And at 7, an adorable white woman reveals her journey from her middle-class upbringing, to marrying well and becoming successful pot-trapeneur!”
@tomreganWSB
Tom Regan
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Teen busted for selling dangerously potent pot brownies and other marijuana treats. Details of a thriving online biz . Live on Channel 2 Action News at 4pm.
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3) Framing of “lone wolf” gunman who allegedly had an accomplice-a woman of color, that folks will look to hoping for a “real” terror link
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The shooter had been arrested at least twice for grabbing and touching women inappropriately in public, and in both cases, the prosecutor chose to drop the charges. Both victims were women. But please, keep telling us it’s no big deal to get your ass slapped by a stranger.
@KING5Seattle
KING 5 News
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Two people were fatally wounded at a yoga studio in Tallahassee before the Scott Beierle, 40, turned the gun on himself.
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Thread for men who actually care about us:
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Jamilah Lemieux
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“Grandma, what triggered the Civil Race War of 2018?”
@SPIN
SPIN
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Hear Taylor Swift cover Earth, Wind, & Fire's soul classic "September"
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Tomi Tomy Tomé
@TweetsVanZandt
Crunchwrap Supreme Clientele
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What’s the name of this country group?
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Y’all brought back the real music, this is serious.
@ibaba10
Buttercup
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Black people uniting to defend Jordyn Woods against the Kkkardashians
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Jamilah Lemieux
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I’m sharing this every time I see it. Cut off deadbeat parent friends. Don’t date deadbeat parents. Support friends who are doing right by their children (including good dads fighting for more time!) and make social lepers of the ones who aren’t!
@Missinfo
Missinfo
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. @PUSHA_T : "I don't even hang with my friends who have child support issues"
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Opening up a school is a great way to combat violence. Coulda opened a lot of schools with that $30 mil you spent on sexual harassment payouts.
@BillOReilly
Bill O'Reilly
6 years
If LeBron James wants to champion social justice as well as basketball, he should go to Chicago and help the poor people there who are experiencing unprecedented violence. Please check out my commentary on .
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Fuck R. Kelly and fuck everyone who supports him, enables him, stands by his side.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Call me crazy, but I wouldn't want a white supremacist having access to my food, nor serving my customers.
@mtracey
Michael Tracey
7 years
No sympathy for them, but guys getting fired from pizza chains and supermarkets jobs for attending a political rally is a little unnerving
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Jamilah Lemieux
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A reminder: no one wants an email from you until next week. Even if they are back at their desk today.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Go to bed, colonizer.
@rkylesmith
Kyle Smith
6 years
Get Out is a Saturday Night Live sketch. You could do the whole thing in 8 minutes.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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The purse in the lap, as if to say “I’m out the SECOND this thing is done” is just *kisses fingers*
@evanrosskatz
Ξvan Ross Katz
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NO SMILING. NO CLAPPING. NO OVATION. AN AMERICAN HERO.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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She is THE Maxine Waters. We never say "White man in Congress," despite how abundant and, often, forgettable and mediocre they are.
@mmfa
Media Matters
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African-American woman in Congress speaks up against the president, Bill O'Reilly says he won't listen because of her hair.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Looks like the 2016 election
@pollynor
POLLY NOR
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You don't know him like i do
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The fact that the photo has been around this long and no one knew that she was there is a clear and concise answer.
@hauntedwoman
𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊 ✰🧸ྀི ⁠
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Can we add Margot to the mix
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1) Use HIS picture. He didn’t get in any trouble so we already know which side of the family he is from. 2) She hasn’t spoken to him in years and he leveraged the connection for a media appearance. 3) He blamed Trump for his choice 😩
@ewnupdates
Eyewitness News
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Meghan Markle’s nephew allegedly caught with knife at UK nightclub
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Well, we need y’all to do it because the table landed on us
@MrLawson
The Cowboys suck.
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If black men ever discussed their childhood sexual trauma en masse, it would flip the table over.
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You’d be surprised how women are socialized to fear that advocating for ourselves will cost us dearly, including job offers.
@el_budget
The Anonymous Nobody
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You'd be surprised at how many people don't negotiate their salary/wage with an employer.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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If you don’t know every single ad-lib, we aren’t the same. If you don’t TRY to hit that “My FRIEEEEEEEND,” you don’t know me.
@BETSoulTV
BET Soul
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'If I Ever Fall in Love' by @RnBgroupShai came out 25 years ago today and #BETSoul is celebrating at the top of 8a, 4p & 12a ET hours! #Happy25thAlbumversary !
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No matter what, there is no reason to feel foolish or guilty for believing Jussie’s story because as wild as it was, America has always been even wilder. Just recently, I saw a governor’s wife stop him from Moonwalking after telling a story about doing Michael Jackson blackface.
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RT if a Black feminist improved your worldview.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Why have I never heard this about boys and the violent misogynistic rappers they listen to?
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Pro-Tip: don't tell us POC to deal with a racist heckler. You can say "Here is how one person chose to do that"
@vicecanada
VICE Canada
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This is how you deal with a racist heckler. Full video:
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Jamilah Lemieux
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What happened to Jussie is yet another reminder that when folks claim “the LGBT community” is diverting attention from Black folks’ fight for justice, they are willfully disregarding the fact that Black LGBT are the most vulnerable of us all. We have to ride for them, they are US
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I don’t even have a joke. I’m just grateful. Bow Wow is one of our greatest living comedians and he don’t even know it.
@NYDailyNews
New York Daily News
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Rapper Bow Wow claims he once dated Kim Kardashian but kept it under wraps because he had never dated outside of his race before
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This should garner as much attention as the Starbucks arrest, but it doesn’t seem like there were any white bystanders there to defend them and most folks seem to believe Black women can talk themselves into justifiable abuse.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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There are few greater injustices than the fact that white people are allowed to know so little and still control so much
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Ladies, don’t let 15 min of fun find you stuck with someone who thinks $324 a month is sufficient for raising a child.
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Jamilah Lemieux
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Yes, we do. We just know it’s not supposed to hurt constantly or require us to invest in the growth of someone who can’t do the same for us. In other words...we expect to be loved, too.
@BigRuSantana
BIG SALMON
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This new generation of women don’t believe in love anymore.
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And these are just the ones that made headlines. What even some of your favorite “allies” don’t realize is that poor treatment is the norm for us and that these extreme situations aren’t really extreme.
@staceyNYCDC
Stacey E. Singleton
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All in the last two weeks 🤦🏾‍♀️🙄
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@ChefResha I FTd her last night from a wedding she wanted to come to. "Are you being a good girl?" "Are YOU being a good parent?"
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Beyoncé is def gonna have to do the Beyoncé tributes
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Hear me out y’all: let’s do the 2019 Black History Month do-over in July: 1) The weather will be lovely 2) We’ll have time to prepare 3) We can make the 4th of July count for more than PTO and barbecues for the first time in our lives RT if you’re down and I’m dead serious
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What about kids who’ve protested police brutality? Asking for a lot of friends.
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It’s really been great to see how she’s taken the time to understand these issues and speak about them in places where most folks wouldn’t
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That “Jamaican Barbie” comment makes even more sense now. This girl couldn’t stand Jazzy being everything she’s not.
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@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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Hello to parents who are burning their fingers with a hot glue gun to make a costume for a child who was rude to them today. Tomorrow, we will take our revenge by eating the good candy and leaving those ingrates with the crappy ones.
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