Charles Preston

Community Engagement for @InjusticeWatch.
Co-Host of @hoodoisie.
Member of TEMBO. #SaveCSU.
I collect things.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

I've been collecting radical ephemera, vinyl, and books, and keeping an online archive via Substack (link in bio).

I acquired a press photo showing Gray Panther co-founder Maggie Kuhn at a 1974 demonstration in Chicago, outside an American Medical Association meeting at the Palmer House Hotel.

Many don’t know about the Gray Panthers, a group organized in the 1970s to fight age-based discrimination — ageism.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@gripe1918 I’ll follow you hoping for more 🤣
Anyway. Seen Obsession? I haven’t.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@gripe1918 You cooked! Do you film analysis often?!

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@gripe1918

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.

[SPANISH FLU @gripe1918]

I watched Backrooms today. First: incredible movie. Extremely unsettling, beautifully executed, original stuff. It’s also extremely racist, in a very online way, I’ll try and prove it, spoiler-heavy

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@u_kno_2069 When I read that the origin story started on 4chan… lol

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga 🤣 WHAT?

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga Let me be clear, I don’t care about your film opinions. I have mine and you have yours.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga He literally used Black girls as a human shield, shot his best friend, and snitched on the stand. That’s going out like a bitch
🤣

Just stop.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Policing Black masculinity is crazy 😂

I think you’re chronically online. To try to assume you know my position, instead engaging with curiosity, because I found a film to be racist is kinda crazy 😂

But if you love the depiction from the white boy director who started this shit from 4chan. Cook on! ✊🏿

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga But I didn’t think Nino was cool. You can’t speak for me, fam. 😂

Nothing cool about using Black girls as a human shield to me or creating a drug empire. I thought Nino was a good villain because he made hate him and was well acted by Snipes. I don’t care what others think.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga What a ridiculous statement but go off 😂

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga But they were villains. Nino wasn’t cool to me.

“allowed” is killing me. People can do whatever they want. It doesn’t make the depiction and how Blackness is negotiated on screen not racist, especially by white creators.

I didn’t say boycott the film. Do what you want.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

@bigsnugga Nah, I love Black villains. Shoutout Nino Brown and Denzel in Training Day.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Movie reads like … “Yes, prison is preferred for Black men battling mental health.”

Wanna talk about a place where space and time collapses? Look no further than solitary confinement in prison.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Clark, the Black guy, actually starts to prefer the endless liminal space to his outside reality. He’s fascinated by it . He made his home in it, so much so that he takes pleasure in the fact that he can eat and hurt the copied beings in the space with no consequence.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Chicago has me spoiled with live music. I went to an opera last night for $5.

I just saw Black women hit octaves that filled the room, no mics and no backing track. Don’t tell me about a $100 shows where artists are backed by track, lip syncing, arriving late 🤣

$5.