Hotep Hollywood... Burn, Hollyweird, Burn
… and it couldn’t be happening to a better
group of people.
We’ve reached a juncture where Karma is showing up to the
door and is fully prepared to collect her dues.
The motion picture industry has never been a friend of brown people and
has actively sought to use its pull to keep brown people under its thumb. Look no further than our Hotep Hollywood label for a running count of their fuckery.
I don’t think I
need to chronicle every name that has been embroiled in a scandal surrounding
things ranging from unwanted sexual advances through more egregious sexual
harassment all the way up to and including – sometimes at the same time (!!!) –
sexual assault and pedophilia.
Well the chickens
are coming to roost. You can’t do
EVERYONE wrong all the time and expect that shit to just get swept under the
rug. Not terribly dissimilar to what has
happened to the most of professional sports wherein brown people are seeing
themselves better represented in response to a past where the leagues shunned
their participation, we’re seeing the marginalized and victimized getting
theirs.
Of course, it is
coming at the expense of some actors/directors/et cetera that we’d previously
been made to loce and sometimes admire, but the laws of collateral damage tend
to work like that.
It is a loss that some of us are willing to take. Bill Cosby removed himself from the protection of the collective Black opinion when he decided to play for “them” and ranted that none of us were shit a few years ago. He was the first cog to break on this wheel, we’re seeing that he won’t be the last.
It is a loss that some of us are willing to take. Bill Cosby removed himself from the protection of the collective Black opinion when he decided to play for “them” and ranted that none of us were shit a few years ago. He was the first cog to break on this wheel, we’re seeing that he won’t be the last.
I remember them because I had a friend at the time who was
from there worried about her family back home.
One year later, I went to FL for a cruise and various spots along I-95
were STILL torched and looked quite barren.
In 2007, then again in 2009 and once more in 2016 I travelled down
through Florida and the vegetation seemed to have THRIVED on the ashes in the
previously burned soil, you wouldn’t have known anything had burned down even if
I told you it had. The getback was that
amazing.
Perhaps it is for
the greater good that we watch Hollyweird burn the fuck down in its own
inequities. That way, we can re-plant
and properly sow the seeds of an entertainment industry not beholden to the
tastes of bigots and apparent rapists and pedophiles.
Chew on that for a minute. Sitting back and letting the industry burn to the ground might be the Hoteppest thing to do right now.
Chew on that for a minute. Sitting back and letting the industry burn to the ground might be the Hoteppest thing to do right now.
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