Where are the black celebrities?

[I Really Mean It]

Now that professional sports and the entertainment industry have been shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is all the more clear that black people own nothing in this country and desperately cling to the vicarious achievements of black celebrity. Without these athletes and musicians, who do we look to for guidance and leadership? Where are the black businessmen and businesswomen who will come to the aid of a black community that is woefully unprepared for the coming onslaught of coronavirus deaths? They don't exist. What industry or economic base can we depend on in a time when the economy is now being violently uprooted? I'm skeptical, but I really hope that the painful lesson felt by this pandemic wakes our community up to the fact that we've been running on fumes and need a more tangible and substantive base of economic support that extends beyond the charade of wealth peddled by paid bootlickers who depend on checks from zaddy.

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Now that professional sports and the entertainment industry have been shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is all the more clear that black people own nothing in this country and desperately cling to the vicarious achievements of black celebrity. Without these athletes and musicians, who do we look to for guidance and leadership? Where are the black businessmen and businesswomen who will come to the aid of a black community that is woefully unprepared for the coming onslaught of coronavirus deaths? They don't exist. What industry or economic base can we depend on in a time when the economy is now being violently uprooted? I'm skeptical, but I really hope that the painful lesson felt by this pandemic wakes our community up to the fact that we've been running on fumes and need a more tangible and substantive base of economic support that extends beyond the charade of wealth peddled by paid bootlickers who depend on checks from zaddy.

If your expecting black celebs to help us don't hold ya breath because you'll turn Rolex blue in the face.

 

[DaHNIC82]

We expecting to pull up in the NO with masks and ventilators?

 

[richaveli83]

We expecting to pull up in the NO with masks and ventilators?

 

[ThrobbingHood]

In their gated communities with rich white folk.

 

[I Really Mean It]

If your expecting black celebs to help us don't hold ya breath because you'll turn Rolex blue in the face.

It was more rhetorical, breh, an observation that we have been trained to look to these celebrities as the leaders in our community. But once the economy is gone, once the only avenues of wealth offered to black people have closed, it becomes clear that we have no one to depend on. No business leaders. No politicians. Nobody of merit to seek out for help in a time of crisis that poses a dire threat to our people.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

It was more rhetorical, breh, an observation that we have been trained to look to these celebrities as the leaders in our community. But once the economy is gone, once the only avenues of wealth offered to black people have closed, it becomes clear that we have no one to depend on. No business leaders. No politicians. Nobody of merit to seek out for help in a time of crisis that poses a dire threat to our people.

THEY ARE LOCAL AND DOING THINGS. YOU REFUSE TO SEE THEM.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Probably at their secret meetings about how they gonna keep the public brainwashed and how they gonna make some of these idiots keep worshipping them
In other words, celebrities is nothing but smoke and mirrors and shouldn't be relied on when it comes to the regular people (the same people that they look down is the same people that's keeping them rich).

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

Now that professional sports and the entertainment industry have been shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is all the more clear that black people own nothing in this country and desperately cling to the vicarious achievements of black celebrity. Without these athletes and musicians, who do we look to for guidance and leadership? Where are the black businessmen and businesswomen who will come to the aid of a black community that is woefully unprepared for the coming onslaught of coronavirus deaths? They don't exist. What industry or economic base can we depend on in a time when the economy is now being violently uprooted? I'm skeptical, but I really hope that the painful lesson felt by this pandemic wakes our community up to the fact that we've been running on fumes and need a more tangible and substantive base of economic support that extends beyond the charade of wealth peddled by p

Brehs like you can't get thru a criticism without some white supremacist-slave kinda talk and seriously wonder why our people haven't progressed further than we are

 

[Tariq Nasheed]

Come on family. Stop with the broke hoodrat mentality. Looking for a handout from the black celebrities. They owe you nothing.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

You can’t build a black economy by expecting just the rich black people to put in work. This is something that people from all walks will have to come together and do

 

[I Really Mean It]

Brehs like you can't get thru a criticism without some white supremacist-slave kinda talk and seriously wonder why our people haven't progressed further than we are

Expound, breh. What kind of white supremacist-slave talk am I trading in? Is it not correct to say that, with this shutdown, it's obvious that these fake symbols of wealth among the celebrity class are silent? Is it not obvious that black people have no real representation among the true spheres of power in his world? Business. Politics. Am I wrong? When Lil Baby, Future, Meg Stallion, and all of these other manufactured Instacelebs have their avenues of exposure shut down, what other representations of black excellence exist to black people? Who can we now look to, in this era of celebrity at a standstill, for support that is targeted to OUR community? Let me know, breh.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Rihanna & her people gave 5 million to help, just saying

 

[The Fade]

Lamoist and Bomani and Very Sassy Brothas

 

[richaveli83]

Come on family. Stop with the broke hoodrat mentality. Looking for a handout from the black celebrities. They owe you nothing.

Ya dig?