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Black Marriage Negotiations Video Perpetuates Stereotypes and Ignores Context

By Rose | Published: October 18, 2010

Tweet The “Black Marriage Negotiations” video has been making it’s rounds on Facebook walls and on Essence’s blog. It has grossed nearly 200,000 hits on YouTube after going viral late last week. It was created by an anonymous user at Xtranormal.com, a site that boasts, “If you can type, you can make movies.” If only [...]

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Lil’ Wayne’s sexist and misleading song “Gonorrhea”

By Rose | Published: September 27, 2010

Tweet Lil’ Wayne’s new album that is being released digitally on iTunes today should be called “Women Aren’t Human Beings” instead of “I Am Not a Human Being.” His new song “Gonorrhea” captures how bad sexism in hip hop can really get. In the song’s verses he engages in the age-old strategy of vilifying an [...]