@claycane FYI LENA HORNE WAS NOT ALLOWED 2 PLAY A "MULATTO" IN "SHOWBOAT.
THEY HIRED A WHITE ACTRESS TO PLAY THE ROLE AND MAYBELLINE CREATED A SPECIAL MAKEUP TO MAKE HER LOOK "COLORED." & HAILE DID SIMULATE ANAL SEX IN MONSTERS BALL WITH THE WHITE MAN WHO KILLED HER HUSBAND.
@claycane DISSED ME TODAY ON JLO. LENA HORNE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST & NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY A MULATTO IN "SHOWBOAT. A WHITE ACTRESS WAS HIRED. MAYBELLINE MADE A MAKEUP SO SHE COULD LOOK BLACK! HAILE IN MONSTERS BALL SIMULATES ANAL SEX W/WHITE MAN WHO KILLED HER BLACK HUSBAND.
All of us are culpable. Karma excludes no one. We must watch what we say during times of tragedy. How we vote and talk 2 one another. We & our lineage will pay and endure our collective grief. NO ONE ESCAPES!
@KaticMakenna @IRectYhu@davidmackau Chris Rock hallmark humor often focuses on Black pain even when he is ridiculing white folks. Anything to secure an additional 15 min of fame
@KaticMakenna @IRectYhu@davidmackau I did not hear or read any of the general public comments when a ban of racist US senators were verbally assaulting .violent,humiliating to Supreme Court nominee Katangi Brown Jackson. I am sure Will Smith and other Black men and women were still brewing over that.
@sprightlysound I am so proud of you and so excited to hear you play and know that through your musicals genius you will continue to be a "change agent."
As always when the oppressors decided they were tired of tolerating his flamboyant, colorful personality and politics they pulled down his curtain or Afghan and he found himself dwelling in an untenable place. REST IN POWER KING!