Jesse Williams' BET Speech did you catch it?

Ra said:
Timberlake caught the backlash that he did for essentially being willfully ignorant to the fact he has benefited from black culture. Not only benefited but been embraced by black people.

Had he not responded in the somewhat condescending way that he did (or better yet not at all) to the person who called him out on the Janet Jackson SB scandal he would have been good. But he had to be the typical patronizing white person with his "You poor soul/We are all the same" response that came off sounding a little too much on the "All Lives Matter" end.
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Major blunder...huh

As far as the JJ situation, that was some bs. He got off free on that and she got burned. As I remembered he was silent the whole time and never stood by her
 
goodlove8 said:
Major blunder...huh

As far as the JJ situation, that was some bs. He got off free on that and she got burned. As I remembered he was silent the whole time and never stood by her
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And that's why & what the one person was calling him out on. Had he not responded to it at all, no one would have thought anything about his intitial post to Jesse Williams' speech.
 
Ra said:
And that's why & what the one person was calling him out on. Had he not responded to it at all, no one would have thought anything about his intitial post to Jesse Williams' speech.
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I have to go back and look but I think they jumped on him with his initial post. If they did then they were wrong and he responded badly with the "you poor souls" thing
 
andreboba said:
White privilege is a thing.
Light skinned privilege, not really.

Trying to argue if two equally qualified Black applicants apply for the same job and one happens to be light skinned and the other darker from my personal experience just isn't proven out in the real world the light skinned applicant will have an advantage.

Maybe it happens sometimes, but I have never heard dark skinned people gripe and complain about the job they lost or house they didn't get because of a light skinned Black person.

Trying to turn light skinned privilege into a 'thing' almost on par with White privilege makes no sense and sounds like whining.

Jesse Williams doesn't have light skinned privilege.
He's got I-look-White-and-have-to-tell-you-I'm-Black privilege.

Light skin privilege really only exists in the Black community, since we tend to value more Black men and women with lighter skin.
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Agreed, agreed, and agreed.
 
As far as TDK and light skinned issues again that's more black than whites.

Heck don't forget str8 out of Compton was looking for light skinned bw
 
RicardoCooper said:
Meh. Nothing special. Speech pandering to the sisterhood. The guy demonizing "cultural appropriation" and whiteness with his white mama sitting right there. I guess he don't lub his mama. What do you white mamas think of that?

Actual black i.e. dark-skinned dudes speak out daily and get marginalized. Mixed blue-eyed good hair pretty boy says some shit and panties get wet across the land

Fight the power on a Jew-owned network :smt017

When guys who look like him get harrassed/followed around the store/shot by cops let me know

Fuck outta here
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Now we discussed the light skinned issue (something we had no business discussing anyway) and the fact he put himself out there.

It seems you are ok with whites appropriating our culture and the bm here aren't and the reasons for it.
So how was he demonizing whites?

Then you and I will talk about him pandering to be.
you do know your cooning is on full blast, right?
 
goodlove8 said:
I have to go back and look but I think they jumped on him with his initial post. If they did then they were wrong and he responded badly with the "you poor souls" thing
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Yes, there were people going at him from his initial post because they were already looking at him through a critical lenses as an "appropriator".

Smartest thing he could have done was just let them talk shit and make themselves look petty for going at him for that first post. Responding, especially the way that he did, only gave them the ammo they already believed they had to light him up even more.
 
Ra said:
Yes, there were people going at him from his initial post because they were already looking at him through a critical lenses as an "appropriator".

Smartest thing he could have done was just let them talk shit and make themselves look petty for going at him for that first post. Responding, especially the way that he did, only gave them the ammo they already believed they had to light him up even more.
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Yep. You are 100% on. He made himself look like an ass with the response. "You poor souls..."
 
Beasty said:
Willfull ignorance at best.
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Or I just have different information and actually listen to other people who don't live my world view. So what about light skin people who actually agree with the position that they have privilege because of their light skin?
 
The Dark King said:
Or I just have different information and actually listen to other people who don't live my world view. So what about light skin people who actually agree with the position that they have privilege because of their light skin?
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I thought we agreed to disagree carry on fella.
 
The Dark King said:
http://bougieblackgirl.com/colorism-30-privileges-light-skin-blacks-others-dont/

http://simonedigital.com/light-skin-privilege-and-colorism/

http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/our...d.com/features/light-skinned-vs-dark-skinned/
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Colorism has been and still is mainly a problem WITHIN the Black community.
Trying to equate this to White privilege, when NONE of these light skinned Black women have the option NOT to be Black, again, is nonsense.

Look at the top Black women on network TV.
But why do that, it would blow your light skinned privilege argument out of the water.

The Black community's preference for lighter skin overshadows anything being perpetrated by WHite supremacy and their take on colorism.


But you keep feeling sorry for yourself TDK imagining that a lighter skinned Black person has an easier time in the world than you do.:smt022
 
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