Black barbershops being lied on again.

[Jone2three45]

For decades everyone including our counterparts have been pushing the dead by 25, locked in jail, and aids narrative along with a long list of countless other harmful stereotype and imagery against us nonstop. Now it’s the barbershop that’s the boogeyman?

I’m assuming these new blacks who work on all these shows grew up in a white area all their life and their only experience with black people is going to a HBCU for a few short years? Who gave them the right to control our narrative, experience, and imagery?



Again, no barbershop talk like that.

 

[Mastamimd]

Still upset about this. Even the guy mocking the idea of a "safe space" is agenda shyt because overall straight hood black men do NOT even use that phrase. If this was a white dude saying I'd be like ok, incels and right wingers mock "safe spaces" all the time. But young black dudes? They aren't sitting around on Reddit all day learning that shyt.

There's a real problem with black creatives and the content we get. The black male-driven shows are typically power or crime fantasies, generic and feeling like they were pumped out of a factory quickly. Imitating prestige television (The Wire, The Sopranos, etc), rap videos with a bigger budget. Think about the diversity of white male driven shows, compared to black male shows. It's depressing.

On the other hand the art and faux prestige black shows seemingly are all run by black women, and focus on black women. These are also often the shows that commercialize black trauma for white audiences. Insecure is a legit good and well written show from what I've heard but it spawned an army of imitator shows about women trying to make it in the big city, mixed in with black men disappointing them or attacking them. Or the genre shows (sci fi/adventure/horror/etc) where it also seems like someone is thinking of every ugly part of black history to add into a show like a Marvel easter egg. Lovecraft Country is a great example. The connecting factor for a lot of this stuff is this weird, unauthentic vibe from creators whose black experiences seem foreign or abbreviated. Yet this is the stuff white critics and execs fall over themselves to praise. Because this is the content they think or want white audiences to watch...and it never truly seems to work.

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[Sankofa Alwayz]

Lmao seriously @Knuckles Red how old are you really?

 

[Paper Boi]

brehs I'm certain this happened.

it occurred in that same barbershop where they were all singing the praises of Elizabeth Warren

nikkas out here staging barbershop photops Elizabeth Warren

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Wrong poster. My bad

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Unrealistic... If this was really going down, Dike shorty would have been all ears and chimed in on the bishes SHE was smashing.

EXACTLY


Dikes be the main ones trying to hard

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

My take away was it was just that individual that was acting up, not that it happens in all barbershops.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

But yet she put it on the show which basically generalized the “black male” experience as as a whole.

How about the next scene be Issa Ray going into another Barbershop thats more realistic to the modern day black male barbershop experience.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I don't know if I live in an alternate world than most of yall or what, but it's crazy that damn near everything most of yall have experienced, I've experience the opposite. Maybe I'm blind and don't know it...

Maybe not around women, but I've heard these kinds of conversations in barbershops since a kid. The older barbers will check the younger ones sometimes about the conversations, but only if the older ones are in the shop at the time.

nikkas getting shot outside the barbershop in the neighborhood I was raised in was/is not uncommon. Not that every barbershop is like that but if anybody is from Pittsburgh, no way in fukk you don't remember Ham's barbershop on the Hill getting shot up or nikkas constantly getting shot in front of it or McGinnis in Mt. Oliver where the same thing was always happening. Before I grew my hair back I seen nikkas fight at the neighborhood barber's house who cut out of his living room as a side job.

Where do yall nikkas live at that you experience none of the world that I see?

I used to get my cuts in some of the most hood ass areas here in PG County from as far back as when I was 9 years old and I don’t recall barbers being on the type of time as portrayed in this propaganda piece of a show. fukkery would occur sometimes in or outside of the shop but that’s to be expected sometimes with barbershops in the hood

 

[O.T.I.S.]

What makes this so bad is you have shows like ATLANTA that exist which probably had the most accurate black barber depiction ever.

EXACTLY

We need this show back on TV. This was probably the most accurate depiction of a black barbershop and was hilarious (if over the top in some situations) because it’s kinda true. Everyone had a Barber that was doing extra shyt while cutting they head

 

[Kane1]

Not a single grown man over 21 speaks like this. FOH with this garbage

Been going to a barber shops for over 35+ Years

Never heard such BS up in the shop

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Complete bullshyt


too many elders in thereto let shyt like that fly, and alot of the customers been coming to that barbershop since they was kids so there's a rapport and respect factor that comes automatically not to mention the relationship have with a specific barber.

the barbershop IS Mecca, It is the black man's tabernacle, and last remnants of a communal energy; a place where the voice of our elder stands for something. It's well understood you dont come in there with the foolishness because you will quickly get ostracized and told not to come back. It's a safe space for our women too, that goes without saying. aint no women being groped up sexually assaulted /haraased.

you'd sooner find degeneracy in these churches before a black barbershop, FOH

far as men convo go

50% sports talk
30% current affairs (whatever is in the news, typically amongst the OGs)
10% Talking about life , dropping gems etc.
10% Back in the day talk

women have their own topics in the barbershop, but none of it is wild vulgar shyt

there might be some tea spilling or side talk about another chick with a fukked up edges or something.

nikkas couldnt come in with the extra saggin pants down to their mid thigh cussing every other word just being ignorant as fukk, you WILL get checked and kicked out

same goes for women, you cant come up in there dressed for a porno shoot or the late shift at a strip club. you will get checked or kicked out

you will respect the presence of elders, women or kids. it's not up for debate

I've been to over 30 barbershops in my life, and never took long for it to feel like home again, because for the most part it's all the same experience.

everybody involved with narrative flipping and meddling of black affairs needs to die the most horrible of deaths.

we dont need some cave monkey and their band of disposable c00ns speaking on us or for us, we can police ourselves

for real they all can die , run head first into a wood chipper, fukkem

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Are you clowns this antagonistic to crackers that want to keep up confederate monuments and scream black lives don’t matter? Yes this barbershop scene was some bullshyt and black men should be offended but we should be more offended at cacs on the right that fukking hate us and left wing cacs that sully our image by propping up degenerate rappers.

@Kiyoshi-Dono It NEVER fails!!! They always show they face, it never fails

 

[Paper Boi]

lmao she just retweeted this.

this is who this Harlem () shyt was made for

 

[Hoodoo Child]

damn it gets tiring
like who the fukk is writing this shyt

Women and homos