power structure, he should cave and cower to the white power structure?

Fuuuuuck that. He's a man first. A man raising a family who have to look at him every day and he going to allow folks to call him a rapist? Naaaah.

If he stood his ground from day one and maintained that he was being falsely accused by a white woman and dogpiled by the media, Black folks, especially black woman, would have gotten behind him.


If he had place his trial in the proper context of a long history of black men being falsely accused of such crimes and another example of the systemic issue of the criminalization of black men by the criminal justice system, he would have found a lot of support.

Instead he gave into the narrative that he must have done something wrong in order for this white girl to agree to have sex with him and his friend. He should have called that bullshit out that no matter the scenario, the black man is the aggressor and the white woman is the victim.

He is starting to switch gears now but it's probably too late.

It's super ironic that if he were more militant like Nat Turner and less an appeaser, he probably would have weathered this better.




>Nate needs to apologize to keep his paper $tr8. This
>Hollywood. It's about perception - how things look. What the
>audience believes. How the audience feels. Fuck his feelings
>and his beliefs. He needs to sell an apology to the world in
>order to clear the way for thi$ movie to score a profit. If
>the movie doesn't bring in a profit for the studio he won't
>get another shot for a while, maybe. So without regard for
>what actually happened Nate needs to make the ppl believe he
>is sorry for what he did bc the ppl believe he is a rapist. We
>don't care that he was acquitted bc we know that the courts
>don't always bring justice. We know a rapist can be acquitted
>though he's actually guilty. Like the white men who raped the
>black women in Nate's movie - they would've been acquitted if
>they could have been tried. But they're still rapists (yes, BG
>I know the facts are different and that doesn't matter for my
>point - try to keep up, bro). So Nate needs to put on the
>performance of his life and sell an apology to save the movie.
>Or maybe it'll be okay even though he's given these toxic
>interviews. He at least needs to stfu if he won't apologize.


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