This is why we need to stop having entertainers as our leaders. They're too subject to the okie doke and they're just not politically savvy enough or accustomed to dealing with white people enough most of the time.
That instagram post will have much broader distribution than Cube's tweet, and most people aren't even going to watch the video.
Cube's just been played.
I had a boss who was a straight a$$hole and most likely a racist. He did not get along with anyone who wasn't a white male on the team. After talking to my mentor at the company as well as my skip-level about the situation, he got his management responsibilities removed from him and got put on another team. Apparently others on the team had perceived the same thing.
Fast forward a few months, he emails me out of the blue with some buddy buddy shyt about, "What was that thing you said about XYZ? I think that was a really funny but useful way of summarizing the situation and I wanted to share with my team as we're facing something similar."
I read that email and, immediately, having dealt with sus white people before, the questions that popped into my head were:
- Why me?
- Why this?
- Why now?
Of all people to be in contact with, why me? Why about this? Why now? I couldn't come to an answer that made sense outside of him having something to gain by showing we were still in contact, so I never responded. I didn't trust the guy and was sure there were ulterior motives that meant something for his career - fukk him.
Come to find out a few weeks later, he'd run into the same issue (being perceived as a racist) in the new group and was on his way to getting fired (which he did). Putting it together, I'm pretty sure he hit me up to say "If I were making people feel like a racist, why would I have a good enough relationship with Reality to have this email exchange?" I'm 99.9% sure that shyt was a hailmary to this day. He was fired within 2 weeks of sending me the email.
Anyway, that's me at 22 years old after navigating white spaces for pretty much my entire life. Antenna up.
I'm pretty sure the same questions I asked apply here and reveal the answer.
the serpent has revealed himself and yet you still want to pet
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