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Kara Brown
karabrown
Senior Writer, Jezebel
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She is a positive, Black, female pop-star who makes fun music that makes people dance, socialize, and enjoy life. She’s just a great entertainer and is focused on empowering women and girls. Her band consists of fantastic female musicians and they’re having a great time doing it.

Or she can pick up ANY black artists album that the rolling stones ripped off and I promise YOU it’ll be more worth her time than anything the Rolling Stones made.
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It’s an automatic lose when you bring up ‘purple people.’ Just sayin’...
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Ha! So on point, I heard a lot of that “what do you mean you haven’t heard of “insert Caucasian pop band/artist”? When they knew nothing of Earth Wind and Fire or Parliament and Funkadelic. Read more

This....is not the vote I was expecting. (and yet somehow makes me happy? I dunno) Read more

I’m pleased that one of my favourite Jez writers is with me on this one. Hard yes. Very hard.
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I JUST FEEL LIKE AN ANT TRYING TO GET THE ATTN OF THE UNIVERSE AND ITS JUST SO OVERWHELMING RIHANNA WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN US Read more

IS FOX NEWS SECRETLY RUN BY INVASIVE ALIENS WHO ARE PLOTTING TO STEAL OUR RIGHTS AND TURN THE US INTO A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP WHERE HUMANS ARE USED AS SUSTENANCE? Read more

It takes a ginormous leap in logic to go from Read more

I’m pretty sure it’s not her fault, it’s a Kinja glitch. I don’t even know if the authors know how to fix it, I’m guessing the technical people will have to mess with it.
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So what you are saying is, you didn’t understand what Kara was saying at all.
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Did you read what Kara wrote? Because this response, too, is also very white...
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Did you understand the point that Miley was ascribing certain character traits to Nicki because it follows a lazy narrative informed by both of their races? You could maybe make an argument that instead of the “whitest” thing ever, it’s the most “privileged” thing ever, but potato, potahto. Kara is not implying white Read more

I get why you’re prickly about this, but you can’t just look at this as an isolated thing, and going all #notallwhitepeople isn’t helping the conversation. Tone policing has a loooooooong history, and has been used a) by men to shut down women and b) by whites to shut down POCs. So, when someone who looks like Miley Read more