I’m still traumatized from Roots on TV 43 years ago. Even back then I decided the only reason I’d watch a slave narrative again was if the slaves picked up guns in the third act and re-enacted terrible bloody vengeance. So just Django Unchained since then. 

Salute to the Modeling OG

Same. My mom asks me if I watch films like Just Mercy and I’m like, “I can’t handle another film about the system taking black lives.” It’s not entertaining for me.

I’ve made similar vows to myself just to maintain some sense of inner peace. My interest is in seeing movies around themes I haven’t considered, places I’ve never been or presenting familiar stories from unique perspectives. So I enjoy mostly international films and independents. What I wouldn’t give for a film about…

I agree with you, Black Hollywood is stuck in a rut of Black misery, Black Lifetime dangerous men flicks (like that new one with Nia Long and Omar Epps? They both deserve better and I don’t care if that pays the bills, we don’t have to like it), the Kenya Barris “-ish” franchise, Lee Daniels clout or Tyler Perry’s…

Yeah, I don’t have Twitter to know all the ins and outs but seems that he published all her family’s info or let it sit on his ‘timeline’(?) with her address and a bunch of other doxxing-type of personal info, like he’s egging someone to do something to her. From the little I remember, she published some other woman…

I didn’t read this whole thing but if you’re telling me that you’d take a threat from Maya (or any of her 10 ‘friends’) as seriously as you’d take a threat from Talib, with his resources, his hundreds of thousands of fans, or his old neighborhood crew or one ‘Stan’ fan with a screw loose...well...

Why isn’t she the victim, because she didn’t immediately shut up and apologize? Does a victim have to be perfectly 100% innocent to get empathy or does everyone have to bend the knee to bigger, meaner bullies with more assets?!

Hunh?! Arguments do go off on tangents but let’s go back to the escalation: This rando chick can’t make a general statement about a long-discussed trend without this middle-aged man, wealthier and more powerful man stalking her and her family, harnessing his followers to harrass her and retaliating like it’s his…

I was about to say this. Plus, she didn't say all of those rappers were married to light-skinned black women. She said that most of those listed rappers were married to light-skinned black women. 

Those black “men” should have been choked out when they were kids because they are pieces of shit.

She retweeted someone who listed him amongst several other people and she in no one said anything specific about him. But keep twisted yourself to believe that his actions are justified.

Be Like Elsa: Let it go.

This!^^^^^^^Thank you. I'm glad someone said it.

Yeah she’s probably full of shit, but he’s been a celebrity for decades. He should have a way thicker skin by now. If he just clapped back once or twice it wouldn’t even be a story, but he didn’t just call her out. He went in hard, with a hell of a lot of tweets to a random person. He really should have other things…

I am not on Twitter and this article provides no summary to the issue. It is reminder 1,001 why I am not on Twitter though. Please do not view Black Twitter as an accurate representation of Black men or Black women. It is an app that attracts a disproportionate amount of young knuckleheads.

Loved Black Star, Train of Thought, Ear Drum, people gave Quality shit, too, but it had some legit great songs on there. But Kweli’s always given off some incel-ish vibes. Will never forget that he had a verse on a 4x platinum album (College Dropout) where he talked shit about birth control patches and complained that…

I think your point Damon has been the point that many black women have asked. Why when black men see other black men behaving badly that they don’t feel ept to call them out on their nonsense. Its not just this situation with Talib, but just every day cases where a man is cussing out a woman or cheating, or just being…

I’ve always thought of Talib as a bit overhyped for his lyrical ability. He’s an okay poet, but rap is supposed to have rhythm and rhymes. Regardless, on Twitter I got excited about him because he was taking down those ADOS clowns (a Russian psyop scheme to co-opt black people in our fight for equality). Those tweets…

Because and I am quoting a lot of tweet form black men when this foolishness was happening, “Black men don’t owe black women shit.”