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Leslie Gray Streeter
@LeslieStreeter
Columnist, @BaltimoreBanner. Author “Black Widow,” Little, Brown. Holds fake PhD in GenX pop culture. Judging your crab cake. Repped by Glass Literary. She/Her.
Aug 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This was very touching and also new to
me, and gave me a perspective I didn’t have before. I’ve always focused on the threat those men are to me and my family and not on theirs. Thank you and I’m sorry. My late father in law had become a Tr**p fan before his death (he was Jewish, which seemed weird that he’d like him) but we weren’t close even before that so it didn’t have the same impact on me. It was sad, so I can’t imagine if that had been my dad.
Jun 9 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Will Smith’s true fans never left him. I don’t think you should slap people but I also understand why a man who loved a woman is upset at the celebrity troll who called his Black wife a bald-headed bitch. At the Oscars. thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column… That was not disqualifying for a lot of people. CR played in Jada’s face for decades and then did a special calling her a bitch in her hometown. Again violence is not the way but no one protects Black women. No one. We are the mules and the scapegoats. Will Smith did.
Mar 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
During this #WomenHistoryMonth remember that Sojourner Truth’s speech was translated to minstrel vernacular by a white woman? She didn’t speak in a stereotypical Southern dialect because she wasn’t from the South and spoke Dutch. Why is this important? Because so much of what we know about Black people in this country is based on a racist official version constructed by people who don’t know us.
Feb 12 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This is today's last #Sussex-related post because I have to watch #clubshayshay for a @BaltimoreBanner column. But this review I wrote of #Spare last year pretty much sums up something I've been struggling with, given the venom spewed at that lady. thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column… It seems that the ownership that some people feel over Harry and his family is a much more intense version of how we felt when Duran Duran or New Edition got girlfriends. It was supposed to be us! We were like 13 so it certainly could not have been.
Dec 12, 2022 • 43 tweets • 14 min read
Just started #HarryandMeghanNetflix and am reminded that while they were falling in love, unhinged British women were posting conspiracy theories about why they had never met and Meghan was showing up to places Harry would be the stalk him. Hard to surmount that kind of crazy. If I ever call you and tell you I’m going to be staying in a tent for ten days with a new boyfriend I am not in love. I have been kidnapped. Alert the authorities. #HarryandMeghanNetflix
Dec 11, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I have started #TicketToParadise and already am annoyed by grown rich adults who can’t be civil to each other for their child’s sake for a day. I love that the movie knows the Americans are asshats. That idiot friend who introduces the Balinese man along with his tattoos as if he’s a museum piece and announces she’s going to sleep with him, not knowing he has a pregnant wife.
Dec 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When @selenagomez showed up in the #SNL monologue with #MartinShort and @SteveMartinToGo I squealed “It’s the baby!” Because I have now reached Black auntiehood and it’s delightful. Sprinkles/Pringles the Elf is a mood. And I share it.
Dec 10, 2022 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Starting “The Goonies”‘with the kid. Joey Pants and Robert Davi were different flavors of criminal hot. Mouth messing with the Spanish speaking maid by telling her there were drugs in the house is not cute.
Aug 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Black Americans paid taxes during segregation for pools they weren't allowed to swim in, fountains they couldn't drink from and buses they had to ride in the back of. So...miss me with this "Why am I paying for school I didn't go to?" At least this is about uplift, not hate. economic-historian.com/2021/07/accoun…
Feb 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Lying in bed on a snowy Saturday morning watching @joshgroban singing “She” on a @PBS special. It may be the best part of this week. Now @joshgroban is singing “Try To Remember” and I just really miss Jerry Orbach.