#black exploitation

[hotterthanhellgothica]

A Real Groovy Bitch 🍄🧡

[blckvenuz]

It’s been a while since I’ve finished listening to this podcast about Milli Vanilli, but this particular moment reverberates in my mind every time I think of them.

Everything Amanda, Chris, and Fab said about how Black entertainers are used and abused, then thrown away by the white people in charge when they’re no longer useful is 100% correct. This is why I always point out that you (a non-Black) can love Black music, media, and fashion, but still have no little to no regard for the Black people producing these things. They aren’t human. Just a prop existing specifically for your own amusement. You don’t have to treat them with respect and dignity in order to enjoy and, eventually, appropriate their culture.

And the plantation owner and Frank comparisons is spot on. Though I just KNOW someone’s gonna listen to this podcast, and try to undermine how big a role race dynamics played in this whole situation. However, if you look at Frank’s track record, you’ll see how he always seemed to profit off of Black artists (and also brown artists during the latin explosion, but I digress).

Anyways, Frank had not a crumb of remorse or guilt and never took responsibility for the pain he caused. And the fact that he couldn’t let them go quietly—he just HAD to destroy any chance of them finding success after escaping him is truly sickening. Like Fab said, he had already made his money. There was no point in doing that other than “proving” that he still had ownership over them and that they were nothing without their ol’ massa.

[kdjonesfla]

[mejcinta]

Al Sharpton, Don Lemon, Oprah, Beyonce, Jay Z...

Lord, the list is long! No wonder we still in mental shackles.

[comicparanoia]

Hip Hop Family Tree

#1

by  Ed Piskor

released by Fantagraphics on August 31, 2015.

[comicparanoia]

Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly “This hip-hop retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focuses on Tybalt (derisively referred to as “the Prince of Cats”) and his Capulet crew as they do battle nightly with the hated Montagues.“

released by Vertigo on September 1, 2012

[comicparanoia]

Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly “This hip-hop retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focuses on Tybalt (derisively referred to as “the Prince of Cats”) and his Capulet crew as they do battle nightly with the hated Montagues.“

released by Vertigo on September 1, 2012

[leptoquark3]

The Slave Forced to Rob Graves for America's Doctors