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Keith Boykin calls out Snoop Dogg and other sunken-place sellouts who are rapping for Trump.

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“Well, I had a disagreement with Snoop, I think, a year or two ago, or something. He endorsed Rick Caruso. He was supporting Rick Caruso for mayor of Los Angeles, who I disagree with, and I stated that publicly as well. But, you know, I think that a lot of these rappers are not the intellectuals in the community, as Ture was pointing out, but it's also a dishonor to the Black community.

I mean, if you look at Donald Trump, the man who would refuse to rent to Black people in the 1970s, who tried to lead a lynch mob against five Black and Brown kids in the 1980s for the Central Park case, who refused to allow Black casino workers to have a prominent place in his casinos in Atlantic city in the 1990s, who spent five and a half years lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate in the 2000s, who came into office and then attacked Black people like Colin Kaepernick, who attacked Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shay Moss for simply doing their jobs in Fulton county election workers.

You dishonor those people when you go and perform for this man, this man who has done nothing but dishonor Black people.

And just even last year, just last year, he was calling Haitian immigrants, accusing them of eating cats and dogs.

This is not somebody that Black people should be associated with and pretending to normalize.

We should be challenging him.

And it dishonors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we honor on Monday to celebrate this man.”

- Keith Boykin

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Now is a good time to remind everyone, it’s ok to punch Nazis.

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Aldis Hodge photographed by Texas Isaiah for Essence Magazine (2022)

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Dahomey (2024) 🇧🇯🇸🇳 a documentary by Mati Diop

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Trump getting inaugurated on MLK Jr. Day is a hate crime. I don't care what anyone says.

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And are we shocked that the man with a wholeass history of misogynoir, who's friends with Dr Dre, who slammed Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey for criticizing Bill Cosby and Kobe Bryant, would support Trump?

Oh yeah, he's also got sexual assault allegations against him btw

Wish people would stop idolizing Snoop Dogg and viewing him as some unproblematic icob when he's literally friends and collaborators with domestic abuser Dr Dre 😒 They literally just performed together at the Olympics Closing Ceremony??

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I think it's important to remember Elon Musk's family ties to the Nazis. Here's the link to a video of Musk's father talking his Nazi-supporting in-laws:

And here's a detailed profile of his grandfather:

Good fucking god why are the mainstream news outlets giving Elon Musk's Nazi salute the benefit of doubt?? Like, "oh it could just be an awkward hand salute!!" Look, if it talks like a fascist and walks like a fascist, it is a fucking fascist??

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As much as I wished this was true, James Woods' house sadly did not burn down during the Los Angeles' fires. Becos god hates us, apparently. He did cry about having to evacuate his house when the fires occurred tho.

In the midst of the euphoria over the Oppenheimer awards sweep, please never forget that it was executive produced by this genocidal Zionist cunt

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Good fucking god why are the mainstream news outlets giving Elon Musk's Nazi salute the benefit of doubt?? Like, "oh it could just be an awkward hand salute!!" Look, if it talks like a fascist and walks like a fascist, it is a fucking fascist??

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Anyways... this man can go fuck himself for sucking up to Trump like his other fashy greedy tech ceos in arms.

Okay, I feel bad for Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew getting hit by sinophobic questioning by, predictably, Tom Cotton. But him getting invited to chair the 2024 Met Gala is really giving... mm... fandomization vibes? Think Ruth Bader Ginsburg gettting "Notorious RBG" fan merch, or the Andrew Cuomo thirst era, or Zelensky memes, or Malala Yousafzai being asked to interview Hollywood celebs at the Oscars? Desperately begging media and society to stop turning political figures into celebrities.

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Elon Musk's N*zi Salute at the Trump Inauguration Rally. The US government will attempt to censor this or shift your perception of it.

You Saw, What You Saw.

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I'm referring to posts like this.

I mean, David Lynch can recognise how abusive and exploitative the world is and depict it in his art, and yet he still defended sex pests and rapists. How do we reckon with this contradiction? (Hint: most of us don't want to.)

Sometimes I think about the list of celebrities that signed the petition in support of Roman Polanski, many of which included beloved auteurs like Wong Kar Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Guillermo Del Toro, and I want to punch drywall.

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I just really cannot stand the double standards. Gordon Ramsay gets to uphold and popularize toxic kitchen culture, and yall make memes out of his verbal tirades like "Gordon Ramsay with children vs Gordon Ramsay with adults" and "idiot sandwich", or proclaim how he's actually such a softie. Like yes, I'm not immune to being charmed by Ramsay's softer side but he still made a living verbally abusing chefs on television and glamourizing a culture notorious for abusing it's workers and bad mental health. Complexity and growth is for White pple I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

Look, Tyra Banks is problematic and has been rightfully criticized for the many, many problematic statements she had made on ANTM. But, there's something so hypocritical and rage-inducing about seeing White women viciously commenting on Tyra Banks' physique and appearance at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, saying that she deserved it for making women feel bad on ANTM.

There are a couple things that I think need to be addressed which is:

1. Using fatphobic statements and bodyshaming Tyra Banks and thinking that it's justified becos she had made fatphobic and bodyshaming statements before, does not make you any better than she was. You are still bodyshaming. Also seeing White women thinking they are justified in shaming a Black woman's body? No, fucking no.

2. The individualizing of systemic problems to Tyra Banks. Banks is literally not the only person on ANTM who bodyshamed the contestants on the show. The other judges had participated in it as well, and it tells you a lot about the modelling industry in general. Banks has also been criticized and denied jobs in the past for not meeting beauty standards as a curvy Black woman. Is it too far of a stretch to consider that in order for her, a curvy Black woman, to succeed in the modelling industry, she'd internalized a bunch of toxic beauty standards?

All this to say, I think it's possible to re-evaluate Tyra Banks' legacy and hold her accountable for what she has said and the harm she's complicit in upholding, while also making space to be compassionate and nuanced about her. I mean, if (mostly White) women can see Ballerina Farm as a victim while she's been profitting off promoting white supremacist, cisheteronormative patriarchal values in a pretty soft-lit package to young impressionable pple, I think we can do the same for Tyra Banks?

Anyways, please read this:

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It's always like this whenever an auteur dies. Tributes about their genius, their works, prob a few political takes they have made that were good, how nice/kind they were, but never about the sum of the auteur's parts. Its like we are terrified or reluctant to grapple with the contradictions of pple we like or who's made an impact on our lives.

Also stop trying to frame celebrities/public figures, esp those of old wealthy White men variety, as your meows meows or blorbos. You don't know these people.

Sometimes I think about the list of celebrities that signed the petition in support of Roman Polanski, many of which included beloved auteurs like Wong Kar Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Guillermo Del Toro, and I want to punch drywall.

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Hot take David, I believe we should be judged for hurting people in life, like sexually harassing young women and raping children, regardless of the great work we have done in this life as well 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sometimes I think about the list of celebrities that signed the petition in support of Roman Polanski, many of which included beloved auteurs like Wong Kar Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Guillermo Del Toro, and I want to punch drywall.

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This is literally David Lynch's response to the accusations against Louis CK and Polanski back in 2018, plus his thoughts on political correctness:

He's essentially saying, "Oh it would be such a shame, for a man's good work to be judged by this deeds in life". David Lynch can burn in hell for this.

Sometimes I think about the list of celebrities that signed the petition in support of Roman Polanski, many of which included beloved auteurs like Wong Kar Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Guillermo Del Toro, and I want to punch drywall.