OK so y'all have all the smoke for Lil Nas X and Megan and Cardi, but I ain't heard a peep about this fucking "Throat Baby" song.
Hypocrites.
I have seen long ass dissertations about Megan and Cardi's WAP, a song where women are celebrating their sexuality and the power of their pussies WITHOUT centering men.
Which is what y'all are really mad at.
If WAP was them begging for dick and acting like men are everything, no one would complain. It's the fact that they are owning their own sexuality that has you intimidated.
Lil Nas X made a song dedicated to his younger, closeted self. It's a song that can potentially help other young gay people see themselves and be unafraid to be who they are.
Y'all mad at that.
Meanwhile, two men have a song that is literally about them ejaculating in the mouth of women—the video for which illustrates it plainly in case there was any confusion.
Like a whole song basically saying "Let me cum in your mouth. Please swallow my sperm"
I ain't seen any outrage for that yet.
In case you think I'm being hyperbolic, here's the video:
But I ain't heard a peep from nobody on that. No one saying they aren't going to let their children listen to it. No one complaining it's going to teach young girls to suck dick and swallow. No one telling these young men they should watch what they say.
City Girls are on the song. One of them (I can't tell them apart, sorry) calls herself the boy's "baby mama" and proudly exclaims she has his throat babies.
You can't be all mad about one and tip toe over the other.
And listen: I'm not saying the Throat Baby song should not exist. It's personally not for me, and I am all for freedom of expression.
This is more about the hypocrisy in what y'all criticize and more importantly WHY.
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So, based on the current testimony, the owner/manager of the store escalated the issue with the alleged fake $20 bill to the police. The young store clerk, a young black man, had offered to just pay for the purchase out of his own pocket. His boss refused.
Now we here.
I'm pointing this out to make another point: People often weaponize the police against Black folks simply to make a point or put us in our "place."
The clerk testified that the rule in the store is if they take a fake bill, they are responsible for it and have to pay out of their own pocket if it happens.
The boss sent them out of the store twice to try and get Floyd and his friend to come back in.
This morning, @TheRoot email box is full of people calling us the real racists while also saying shit like WHITE POWER and calling us niggers.
Good morning. How is your Thursday so far?
But seriously, The Root is a Black online media site. We report and discuss topics from a Black perspective.
If you are uninterested in that, there are plenty of other "legacy" news sites that only talk about things from the white point of view. You can go read them.
Why do y'all get a battery in your back and want to come and argue with us about our coverage?
There are a lot of boomers and cuspers taking issue with the fact I said Gen X is the first generation to have existed in both the analog and digital world.
So hey guys. I have mirrors in my house. Like all over my house. I love looking at myself in mirrors. And because of that, I know I'm fat. You aren't breaking any new ground using that as an insult, just FYI. But if it makes you feel better, have at it I guess.
The way my self esteem is set up, the only opinion on my looks that truly matters to me is my own.
If you have watched me any amount of time here, you already know I have no shortage of confidence.