Sometimes as an adult you have to decide "this is the last time these people are gonna make me feel this way" and stand on it. Be it family, a relationship or a friendship.
If I cut you off, your success later won’t make me regret it. Good for you, truly. But becoming rich, popular, married, fit, or “blessed” does not rewrite how you treated people when your character was on trial. I can respect your growth from a distance and still remember why access was revoked. Success can change your status, but it doesn’t automatically clean your history.
How can someone that has developed a hatred or fear for a particular group then go out her way to employ them
And hip hop all but ignored the LGBTQIA community until Nicki came along and allowed them to openly express their culture and self within her fanbase