EllioT Wilson asks Complex editors about Coli criticism of lack of African American employees

[Unknown Poster]

Nah fam, I reached out a few times you just curve nikkas or give one word responses like a jawn when I hit you with an idea.
maybe it's because you grew up middle class and you don't a certain spark to you to get shyt moving...I fukk w/ you, but that's an inaccurate statement. My blog may not be POPPING, but I do a few numbers for a rap nikka...my soundcloud may not be POPPING but I do more numbers than the majority of the nikkas on this site. I'm also probably the most known rapper on here (do googles) other than Hot Rod. I just don't post about what I've done and who I know frfr...that's on you. You know people, I know people...if you don't believe it, cool. I'm on my way up.

Im busy as fukk man....seriously. i apologize for not getting back to everybody but between my two primary gmail accounts, my tumblr messages, twitter, here, and my own work life and everything trying to get them bills paid and not be out on the street....lol....i barely got time.

Today ill try to go through everything.

 

[Unknown Poster]

What will happen after they acknowledge the claims? Do you think anyone who subscribes to CACplex gives a fukk about cultural appropriation

Thats why i dont feel like talking anymore...its time to walk.

With that said...if i walk...thats gonna be the end of me posting on the coli like that.

At this point in the conversation it just becomes a bunch of yelling name calling empty criticism and stops being constructive and if nothing is gonna transpire to anything...might as well just dead it here and move on to the next step.

 

[Asicz]

Those guys interviewed had some smart moves tho.

Dude recognized that there has been alot of amateurism music journalism in regards to Hip Hop on the Web for a while during the mid to late 2000's. And if he brought his A Team to the game. The would thrive.

He was right.
Aldo dude has stripes I the game with claasic Hip Hop mags from the 90s .

 

[JerseyBoy23]

I made that thread cause I was trying to make a very cognizant point.

The legacy of institutional racism in the workforce and nepotism will never end. Black music, art, and culture is now a way to extend the legacy of white privilege for those looking to make a buck from the blood, sweat, and tears of black people. This situation has played itself too many times for me to sit down and try to justify or accept anymore.

Imagine being a young knowledgeable black writer and graduating college hoping to get that big break working for your favorite hip-hop magazine...only to confront this conundrum. It's disheartening. Black culture and the institutions that bring it forward to the masses on a physical and monetary scale is yet another good old boys clubs controlled by whites where blacks are the minority of the staff. Basically the same bullshyt as a black person in America you would expect in other industries and other jobs is present in areas where the business revolves around and is based off of teh artistic and cultural contributions of blacks. Yet no black people are in abundance in these areas.

The sad thing was seeing other black people in that thread try to rationalize it. It saddens me to see black people trying to rationalize injustice, inequality, and racism in the business world simply because the weight of it is too heavy for them to bear.

This exact thing happened to me after college.