>We also had more Black movies by Black producers and all
>Black casts with larger push in the 80s. Who's doing "Coming
>To America" now? Who's your Spike Lee who doesn't have to
>place a gay character or Black female/white male relationship
>front and center? It's like that kind of Black production has
>been shut down. It's not because we aren't still doing it,
>and I can't call exactly what it is (and Double 0 and BigReg,
>please spare me the "AIN'T NOBODY DOING IT" bs), but it seems
>to be a concerted effort to shut us out. This is why the
>whole Jay-Z and Puffy "do it like I did it" stuff is
>misguided. Those kinds of Black moguls and millionaires
>aren't being created anymore. In pop music, the gatekeepers
>seem to be only allowing a certain type in. With all the
>Black talent out here, how Sam Smith and Adele the most
>"soulful" singers on radio? That's not an accident. Bruno
>Mars is racially ambiguous like they like 'em now. Tori Kelly
>stay getting placement. Do you know who Curtis Harding is
>tho? Stacey Barthe? Brandee Younger?
>
>
>>The biggest pop star of all time was a black man. His name
>was
>>Michael Jackson. So I don't understand the argument that a
>>black artist doing the type of music Bruno Mars is doing
>would
>>never blow up as large as Bruno when in fact a black artist
>>blew up to levels that Bruno has not reached.
>>
>>You can also point to Prince. Or Lionel Richie in the 80s.
>
>
>Prince was also racially ambiguous, Lionel was light skinned,
>and MJ lightened himself for Thriller and continued to lighten
>himself. Terence Trent D'arby spoke in the late 80s/early 90s
>on how he was surprised at Seal's success since he was so
>dark, and the industry didn't usually get behind that.

Speak on it, bruh. GOTDAMMIT I SAID SPEAK ON IT!!!