Gloria Steinem: Welcome home. I’m so glad that you’re home!Visit www.yahoo.com to read the full interview
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex: Me too. For so many reasons. We’ve talked a lot these last few weeks. I keep thinking my goodness — I’ve looked up to you for so long! It’s wonderful to just be in your company, to learn so much and to feel inspired to be home. But also to help people remember why it’s so important to vote.
G: Really, we’ve been rescued by women of color in all of our recent elections because of a vote of conscience and compassion. The heart of the Democratic party has been Black women, actually, and now there is a potential Vice President who is Black and that’s exciting.
M: I’m so excited to see that kind of representation. You know, for me, being biracial, growing up, whether it was a doll or a person in the office, you need to see someone who looks like you in some capacity. As many of us believe, you can only be what you can see. And in the absence of that, how can you aspire to something greater than what you see in your own world? I think maybe now we’re starting to break-through in a different way. Do you feel hopeful?
G: Oh yes, I do feel hopeful. We still require an adjective, if you know what I mean. There are ‘doctors’ and ‘women doctors’ and ‘Black women doctors’ and ‘Hispanic doctors’ … the noun still tends to be confined to the ruling group. But we’ll get past that.
M: You know it’s so interesting. I was reading this book called Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble and it talks about how the digital space really shapes our thinking about race. For example, it wasn’t that long ago that when you’d start to type in a search engine ‘why are white women…’ it would start to autofill with words like ‘so pretty’ or ‘so beautiful.’ And then when you would type ‘why are black women…’ it would autofill with words like ‘so angry’ or ‘so loud.’ You get to see how our minds are being shaped by something so much bigger than what we’re actually feeling or putting out there.
G: That’s terrible isn’t it? In a way, the computer age has made it clear by listing it so we can fight it more easily. … I wonder if the COVID-19 disaster — which is an unmitigated suffering and very unequal suffering, I must say — is teaching us something because it doesn’t recognize race, gender or nationality. It sees human beings as human beings. And perhaps we’re beginning to see that too.
M: On top of that, it’s just giving everyone this moment of reset; to reevaluate what actually matters. I think it’s often forgotten how women like you and so many others before you fought for us to just be where we are right now.
I’m from Houston and if somebody had did something to Megan in this city we would have rode!Bun B gets real!
Megan in LA by herself!
She ain’t got her mama no more. Her mama is gone. Her daddy is gone. Her grandmother is gone. All the people who loved her and cared about her unconditionally that looked out for her…would have protected her – ain’t there!
As an O.G. in Houston, I’m standing up!
Tory Lanez did some hoe ass sh*t! Period.
There was a particular situation where my publicist told me there was a celebrity spa day thing and I wanted to go.Watch the clip below:
But, she said, ‘Oh, we have a problem.’ I was like, ‘What?’ So, my publicist was like, ‘Yeah, Mo’Nique said if you go, she’s not going.’
Because Mo’Nique was a bigger actress at the time, of course, they’re going to pick her. So, I couldn’t go to the event. So, she basically blacklisted me.
People ask me now what I think about what’s going on with her? I think that that’s karma because you been blacklisting people. It’s not just me. There’s people that she’s done things to because she thought because she won that Oscar, ‘oh, I’m on top!’
But, no because God will always stop all those blessings because you do people dirty for no reason.
Y’all should be ashamed of yourself!
San Clemente, California police say that the 28-year-old Adam attacked his neighbor during an argument. The alleged victim, who is 60-years-old, says that he had complained to Abdul-Jabbar to help his grandma deal with trash cans. This, he says, ended up driving Adam into a rage. KTLA writes that the neighbor has known Adam since he was a child, with that neighbor adding that he had made a similar
