TAKE THAT SIDE PIECE HECKLERS...
Kerry Washington and her husband look pretty happy together at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Just like all the other actresses who are allowed to do their job, collect a pay check, then go home to their real lives.
Oh, and on top of all the people who tried to diminish Lupita Nyong'o and the Oscar she won for playing a slave, allow me to show you a collage of the black folk who all HAVE NOT PLAYED demeaning roles to achieve their awards:
I swear if some self-righteous Black folks used 10% of their brain, they'd be dangerous. In no way am I saying that Denzel in "Training Day" or Halle in "Monster's Ball" wasn't criticize-worthy. Outrage worthy for that matter, but the problem comes when we don't understand how to PROGRESSIVELY build up a torn community.
We are so quick to ridicule, judge, label and dismiss something when we don't look at the entire picture. For all the people that preach about the neglect of the "black family", do you ever stop to think what your "side-chick" comments do within society? IT GIVES THE TERM LIFE AND SUBSTANCE. It's become a "thing" to say and to be. It's been accepted as ACCEPTABLE.
Psychologically, when we openly dismiss something, we promote it in our minds at the same time.
Also, have we stopped to think that half the people who complain that the Clair Huxtables of the world are growing extinct REFUSE TO BE CLIFF!!! Who the hell is Clair being Clair Huxtable to nowadays anyway? Since there are so many upstanding men that have nothing at all to do with that 70% single Black woman statistic. Nope, it's all her fault. Too much WorldStar and twerk sessions. Oh, and she's too attitudinal about being judged out in the world and not being protected. Yep, that's it.
People are more outraged by the effect than the cause. And I wonder why? It's the same principle of why a man can be hit by a woman and she's "not as wrong" as a man who hit a woman.
Life's so unfair, huh?
And I am passionate about this because I'm tired of seeing the lack of accountability within our community. From BOTH sexes. From intimate experiences to subliminal ones. We are truly our own worst enemy when it comes to our stance, and I blame more uppity black folks than ghetto ones because you have had more of the foundation to influence good, but choose to stick your noses up toward things that you should be wise enough to see ARE BIGGER THAN THE PERSON WHO IS MAKING THE OFFENSE.
And I really don't care about being labeled "cynical" or whatever people love to say about a Black woman who has anything to debate about.
My color already stamps me with societal judgment and mostly by my own damn people.
WILLIE F**KING LYNCH FOR THE WIN.
((goes to cool off...I got my pressure up on this one))
