VerySmartBrothas comment section is popping

[Jean Jacket]

lol this must have been deleted[/QUOTE

It's still there. Link is janky.

just hit up... VSB

 

[End Cruelty]

I like it enough. I check it prolly twice a week.

 

[FSP]

I always felt like that site tried too hard to be cool. I started going there a few years ago but stopped because it felt like the writing was just too cool. Sounds weird but it wasn't a natural cool. Ima try again but even the first article I read (today) just seemed like they were trying (Kylie Irving article). I get it, the articles are more conversational than anything but the writing is just weird to me. Ima keep trying tho, I did like a few articles a few years back

most black yuppies didn't grow up in the hood, so their attachment to the urban culture they criticize, appropriate, reference and still utilize to affirm their own blackness is from a somewhat superficial level. that's why they come off as trying too hard.

Vsb always gave me a vibe of weak, effeminate, passive aggressive, new black, liberal bullshyt.

So at first I was about to call you guys out for sounding like hating ass nikkas, since none of you gave any valid reasons for thinking the way you do.

But then I thought about it, and since I've never ever heard of VSB.com until just now, I decided to see for myself and noticed two things stick out to me when I visit the site.

1. The name of the site is subliminally pretentious
2. The site is atrocious - they should fire their designer immediately

Somehow, I think this has a lot to do with it because I don't particularly care for anything I've seen either, even though the style of conversation seems like something I should enjoy - not too much different than the coli actually, but feels more comfortable here.

Sorry this kind of stuff is just interesting to me.

 

[Scholar]

Checked out some of the articles and they are pretty interesting. Thanks for the hook up

 

[Blessings]

I always felt like that site tried too hard to be cool. I started going there a few years ago but stopped because it felt like the writing was just too cool. Sounds weird but it wasn't a natural cool. Ima try again but even the first article I read (today) just seemed like they were trying (Kylie Irving article). I get it, the articles are more conversational than anything but the writing is just weird to me. Ima keep trying tho, I did like a few articles a few years back

I totally agree. The site started off great, but the writing seems too contrived.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Not interested

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

They'll defend that brother until he doesn't co-sign their BLM LGBT regimen.

Then he's cannon fodder.

Ask me how I know.

I'm growing weary...what the fukk is that and why do WE of all people have to deal with it?

 

[the bossman]

I like VSB but as has been said, they pander heavily towards their crowd, educated black women. They call out black men a lot but I rarely if ever see them get at black women because they know they make up the majority of their audience.

This. I read the comments on the Jesse Williams article and just smh.

The pandering to women is pathetic. The best part of the speech was the indictment of black men?

I remember when they had one dude who was a guest writer write an article about "why you might still be a single woman". The nikkas caved and took the article down after all the backlash

 

[RTF]

Too much group think.

I'm with you. I been following Damon & Panama's site for 5, maybe 6, 7 years when it was just a (black) relationship blog. Back when Damon was calling himself "The Champ". I 've always liked their content and the discussions they have.

B U T - there's just too much group think in the discussions and sometimes in the articles. While The Coli has too much fukkery at least there's genuine spread of opinion and approaches. So I feel like a lot of the discussions don't go anywhere.

 

[RTF]

Biggest problem on the coli is the hate towards black women.... it's just weird coming from so called black men. VSB is the opposite in that regard - probably panders slightly to BW. But anything that has equalish appeal to all black people is going to lean that way (think of Pac's logic in selling records, appeal to black women then black men will follow - then so will the rest of the world).

Their pandering isn't as bad as Coli hate

 

[315]

Negged

 

[Klyk21]

We have a place with no nonsense here, its called "Higher Learning". Different vibe down there. I venture in when I'm sick of the fukkery of this sub-forum

 

[godkiller]

I fukks with thecoli but vsb comment section is what tlr should be brothers and sisters chopping it up without disrespecting each other, anybody else post there part time?

I'm intrigued. The Locker Room is unintellectual and trollish. I lose IQ points for being here. Link?

 

[Soundbwoy]

I'm intrigued. Link?

VSB

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Biggest problem on the coli is the hate towards black women.... it's just weird coming from so called black men. VSB is the opposite in that regard - probably panders slightly to BW. But anything that has equalish appeal to all black people is going to lean that way (think of Pac's logic in selling records, appeal to black women then black men will follow - then so will the rest of the world).

Their pandering isn't as bad as Coli hate

Yup...and I don't think the answer is censorship because ppl should be able to post what they want

Except calling people bytches and fakkits

I think most women don't want to post here anyway, because it doesn't appeal to them

Kind of like Lipstickalley isn't for nikkas