There are various types of Black men and women, some who wouldn't dare to try and do something I'd call disrespectfully destructive and others open to consideration of it. If you look closely, you will catch certain things that do more harm that good to you.
There are all sorts of examples, like one that I haven't heard anyone mention before. Remember the show "Flavor of Love" starring Flavor Flav? Remember the episode when he was sitting at the table eating fried chicken like it was the first time he'd eaten food in months?
That's racial to try and paint us as animals. Think this is farfetched? Go back and look at D.W. Griffith's, Birth of a Nation if you can stomach it. Not to be confused with the one created by Nate Parker, which is worth the purchase. Look at the scene where the Black men were shown eating fried chicken the exact same way (they were also eating bananas and looking at White women, just to dial up the stereotypes this serpent was selling, but I digress). Reality TV isn't reality most of the time, so someone got Flavor Flav to do that and he was sadly willing to do it for the money.
There are all sorts of harmful messages out there, placed either blatantly like in some comedy shows and films or other avenues of media. Recently Super_Blu on Twitter mentioned something he saw in a Netflix comedy special by DeRay Davis titled "How to Act Black". I took a look at it and just as he mentioned, DeRay tried to slide in a notion during his stand up that Dylan Roof wasn't racist and that he is just crazy.
That's indeed suspicious to the extent that makes me wonder if he got that special approved for Netflix because he had that in there. Either way I'd say watch him like others that do questionable things that are disrespectfully destructive because we can't afford to have people killing multiple brothas and sistas because an idiot pushed a notion out there for potential exploitation. I wouldn't have watched it, so I thank the brotha for bringing it to my attention because this is also part of the problem. Someone always ready to flap their lips to try and make it seem like violence and blatant racism are just part of our imagination.
The brotha called him out on it and he you can tell he was annoyed by it. I believe I was the only one who liked the brotha's tweet, but something I've noticed is that he continues even if he doesn't get a like. I didn't want him to get to the point of arguing with DeRay because he tried to switch the subject, but he got him to say certain things that reveal more of his thoughts on the issue. There was a snake in there trying to offer up the notion that it was just a joke, but he could have went in any other direction with his material. He instead picks a topic based on a terrorist attack that took the lives of Black people, and added it to his special. He wasn't joking around by the way, you can listen to him as he mentions that and its obvious he wasn't kidding around. He believes that. He didn't even try to save himself by giving a fake apology and saying it was a joke, he doubled down. Here are screenshots the brotha provided.
It doesn't matter how cool someone seems, don't let them try to put things out there without calling them on it or you stand to be affected by it. They need to know that we're watching, and if their investors can't use them against us then that won't be a route they can take.
Look at the people who are usually funding the contracts of rappers, they tend to be non-Black and ready to shell out a deal to use the artist's cool factor to suggest things. Things to either reinforce negative stereotypes in our communities, about our communities and promote brands to and through our communities. Some rappers don't allow themselves to be exploited, and I applaud them for that, but there are even more out there ready to sell their soul to a corporation for fame and that's usually a negative impact on us.
This snake Antoine DeRay Davis is not a brotha to me, and he shouldn't be considered a brotha to you with this move. He makes money off the community only to cut our throats and essentially piss on the graves of these brothas and sistas killed by a White Supremacist terrorist. He's a sympathizer of that ticking white time-bomb. Take a look at his response about trying to essentially call Dylan Roof an outcast who killed out of peer pressure. A sista called him out on it, and she's right.
How did he go from hanging out with "Blacks" everyday but in the same sentence he tries to say that this serpent claimed racism because he wasn't accepted anywhere else except for the open arms of racists? This is someone clearly trying to make excuses, and his reasoning is an oxymoron.
