Iverson_64
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Shiiii......I remember when Cythnia G was "pro-Black" and even got knocked up by a literal Hotep in the conscious space and we all saw how she switched it up and became the leading voice for divestors(despite not even being one herself.)A lot of these pro-black influencers despise black folks. Hell, a decent amount people in pro-black spaces period hate black folks, especially poor black folks. Their entitlement towards our community, our money and the resources we have is very caucasian-like tbh.![]()
I've seen a similar transformation happen to Oshay Duke Jackson. He started off as more of a conscious brother peddling pro-Black talking points then, eventually, he started sounding more and more like a Diet Tommy Sotomayor and more of a manosphere content creator shytting on Black folks and encouraging Black men to date IR or foreign.
Even Tariq conversing with all those White boys in the Alt Right is suspect as hell even if he does it to keep his foot on their neck. To me, just giving them a platform to speak and debate with him defeats the whole purpose of defeating them. And the way that the Bed Bucking film was memed to oblivion by the Alt Right that Tariq gave exposure to left a sour taste on my mouth too. And that's not even touching on him peddling Q Anon conspiracy theories and telling Black people to hold their votes(which both got retweeted by the MAGA crowd a lot from what I've seen.)
Overall, I think the conscious community today is in a weird space especially after a number of people got exposed in it. Brother Polight going down the R Kelly route didn't help either.