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More of the Same
Lauryn Hill and Jeru the Damaja’s historic debate is a perfect analogy for where we are now as a people
Not a day goes by without vitriolic rhetoric being spewed on Twitter or another social media application. Because of the pandemic, there’s a void in our collective psyches that’s usually filled with sports and reality television, which is instead being filled with similar replacements. Every event no matter how sparse or far-fetched it is now becomes fodder for any side to generate attention and too often we all get dragged into it. I’ll speak for myself and say I am thoroughly tired of Gender War Twitter days.
But amid all the lies, damn lies, and statistics, there are moments where I remember certain events and have to concede a point in the column of both men and women. Times when I must acknowledge the hypocrisy. The lip service love for black men that’s contradicted right after it’s offered. Statements from brothers I know that say shit like “well what did Meg expect dating who she dated”. Times like these are when I must admit that as enlightened as I like to think we are, ignorance still exists and reigns supreme.
There is a history of suppression and oppression from black men to black women and you don’t have to always look far to see it. Scrolling through my YouTube favorite video…
