>It pains me greatly that BLACK people don't understand the
>politics of the situation.
>We can never know what action to truly take if we don't even
>understand the tactics
>of our own exploitation. White folks stay playing us in films
>that should feature dark
>people. They'll feed you RHOA all day but wouldn't give you a
>Les Brown show.
>This is because WE don't control this stuff and what's put
>out.
>Yall tell me this is Black Studies 101, then why don't yall
>see what's going on?
>I know why. Because they don't teach you this shit in no
>school.
>This is the same thing that happened with Michael Jackson. He
>was a Black man who
>OPENLY spoke about the mistreatment of Black entertainers and
>our exclusion from
>mainstream history, and he OWNED TOO MUCH. When you own shit,
>you can change
>all of that. This is what William Henry Cosby wanted to do!
>You have so many BLACK people out here RIGHT NOW talking about
>how Black people
>only sing about sex or aren't open-minded or whatever else.
>This shit is largely dictated
>by how we're represented in media. Some take their ideas from
>that, and alotta our
>children just be what they think they're supposed to be, not
>seeing examples of themselves
>multifaceted. This is largely a media issue. If the images
>change, the masses change.
>PLEASE OPEN YOUR GODDAMNED EYES, BLACK PEOPLE!
>
>Why the hell do yall think Cosby cared so much about OUR image
>that he went
>on the tirade telling us to pull up our pants and shit? He
>wasn't just being a cynical
>old man. He was tired! Tired from being denied over and over
>in trying to bring
>us positive images of ourselves. Everything Bill ever gave us
>was positive down
>to Fat Albert. He wanted the rest of us to be able to do the
>same, but here we are
>mad at him and defending ignorance, going on about how no one
>was around, so
>the media raised us. Well he was doing everything he could to
>change that media
>so that it would impact you positively. Sorry muthafuckas mad
>at HIM tho instead
>of being mad at the folks who make sure all your messages
>about yourself are negative.
>smh.
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