The Isaiah Rashad situation is very complicated.

In one sense, it reminds you that hip hop remains homophobic (like the rest of the music industry) but it also reinforces the continuous disdain and infatuation folks who don't care about LGBTQIA people still care.
This cycle of "why can't people just be straight up" is proven everytime y'all resort to bashing closeted people with homophobic jokes.

Hell, look how y'all talk about Lil Nas X on here and egged Boosie's attacks on him.

The North never forgot.
It's 2022 and people still find Black men engaging in sexual acts with other men a taboo situation.

It's so infatuating and erotic to so many of you. It's very obvious in the way you all get super graphic about something that "grosses" you.

The homoerroticism is telling.
The way there are so many tweets looking to find this visual "proof" of Isaiah Rashad tells you all you need to know that people online are invested in indulging in people private sex lives without any shame.

And then some of these people wonder why revenge porn persists.
In a world where folks instantly begin to question your manhood, talent, and existence, why would Isaiah Rashad "live his truth" in front of any of y'all?

Seriously, why would he? Look at y'all. A fucking mess.

Your brothers, sisters, cousins, coworkers, and kids are watching.
Yesterday, Nicki Minaj asking Soulja Boy about DL men in the industry as if she doesn't already know why they persist.

The way y'all weaponize queer sexuality against other Black people is disgusting.

Sex offenders are praised more than LGBTQ rappers in hip-hop.

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Feb 12
THIS JUST IN: My latest for @RollingStone on #AmirLocke and how right now, continuing the failed efforts to “fix” policing in America feels insane, what’s needed is radical and systemic change.
rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Writing & researching on the failures of police reform has changed my entire perspective on it. In order to believe in police reform, you have to trust the police.

You literally have to believe they want to change, reflect, and do better.

Everything they've done say otherwise.
At this point, I now see police reform as a huge grift that is all about trying to control the public's rightful rage against the police state -- and tamper down any imagination for something better and more accountable.
Read 19 tweets
Feb 7
How come the only time these white celebrities take a bold stand for free speech, fighting against censorship, and protecting creativity is when something racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-vaxx happens?

Black authors are having books on race banned: Silence.
Like where's Jon Stewart coming out to promote and support all of these diverse writers and thinkers who he used to have on his show who have their books being banned by the GOP?

Why is Joe Rogan, a white man, the barometer of your outrage?

Y'all are telling on yourselves.
Free speech can't only be free for white cis-het men.

Free speech can't only be free for rich people.

Free speech can't only be free for celebrities who have multiple platforms and streams of revenue.

These people are so caught up in their little tone-deaf bubble.
Read 6 tweets
Feb 6
Why is it that there are some people who feel like they have to reiterate "Blackness isn't a monolith" as if Black people don't already know that.

As if anyone else don't already know that.

It reminds me of the cringy "well I don't agree with everything you said, but" -- DUH.
There seems to be this problematic need to put a disclaimer around all things Black.

It reeks of anti-Blackness, in the sense that talking about Black people, issues, and culture has to be given a forewarning that NOT ALL as if it's wrong to just say something without such note.
Imagine having to correct a statement like "racism is offensive to Black people" and then having to go "well, I can't speak for all Black people, but racism is offensive to me."

WTF? That shit is trash.
Read 9 tweets
Feb 6
The Amir Locke murder is another example of how you can't reform your way out of policing in America.

You literally have to trust the police in order to believe reform is possible.

How can you trust an institution that you have to DEMAND REFORM from?

Logically, it's trash.
Think about it, you have to create policies to reform police actions -- THEN reinforce consequences if they violate them -- THEN hope there aren't loopholes for them to fuck up -- THEN trust that politicians are actually on your side -- THEN hope they stay in office.

Yeah, no.
Meanwhile, while you're going through all that politicking and lobbying for the reform, the killings continue to increase, bad elected officials are in office reversing any previous progress, corruption can occur within said police reform organization -- only incremental "steps."
Read 4 tweets
Feb 5
The older I get, the more I've begun to use "anti-Black" when describing the racism Black people experience because it's not that society doesn't want to talk about racism -- it's that they don't want to discuss it when it impacts Black people, therefore making them anti-Black.
Notice how there was no mass debate, confusion, or argument when #StopAsianHate went viral. White conservatives like Meghan McCain could rally behind that in solidarity without feeling as if it was attacking her whiteness.

The same couldn't be said for #BlackLivesMatter
This week, so many people who often don't speak on race was quick to remind everyone that the Holocaust was about racism.

This is absolutely true -- but it's also interesting that these are the same people banning books by Black authors that discuss race.
Read 4 tweets
Aug 2, 2021
DaBaby is a multi-millionaire who can afford image consultants, PR reps, and crisis management professionals.

No, it was never the job of LGBTQIA people to "educate" him for free.

We are too busy fighting to survive in a world where his uneducated hate is costing us our lives.
Every time some public figure is humbled by their bigotry, they pull the "I didn't know" card.

Ignorance, if that's what you want to claim it as, has consequences.

Somehow, bigots realize they are uneducated when they start getting unpaid and unbooked.

Interesting...
This entire situation is rooted around capitalism and the power of cancel culture as a means of reinforcing public viewpoints.

No, you don't get to crack HIV/AIDS jokes/insults on stage and think that shit is okay. You don't get to double down three times on it either.
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