People don't realize how much we are devolving as a society if a talented black actor genuinely believes him having a lead role in a fictional IP is "too woke".
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
The "Is God Is" movie explores the idea of Black women responding to violence with violence. This is naturally terrifying to those who are violent against women.
Very curious about Essence’s decision to delete without a statement too. For those who don’t know, with standard journalistic/editorial practice, if the outlet pulls a piece after publishing, they’d prob retain the metadata and keep the original URL active but with the correction, or make the retraction notice link to the original piece/replace the article with the formal retraction statement. But they didn’t do any of that (to my knowledge)?
in our efforts to avoid stereotypes we will end up with the same one-dimensional black characters over and over again. we need to be pushing to be portrayed as human! multidimensional, flawed, complex humans!
this discourse is the male version of what happened with OBAA. black people cant be villains or do bad things, its extremely artistically limiting. its a movie! its not real! this movie is not the source of racism! thats your consumer brain!
Apartheid ended because it was no longer economically viable and sustainable. Not because white people saw it as immoral and had a sudden change of heart.