Damon is spot on here about Snoop:
"In his almost 30 years (!!!) now of being a public figure, there’s nothing Snoop has done to suggest that he doesn’t hate black women; nothing you can nod to in his 'real life' as a mere counterpoint to the art he’s created, which has consistently and happily displayed an antipathy for black women and encouraged disrespect and/or violence towards them. He is an unfathomably rich and middle-aged black man who, in his almost 50 years of life on Earth, has only displayed public affection for one woman—Martha Stewart (who is, um, white)—while relentlessly shitting on the women who look like him.
"Again, this is easy.
"What’s also easy to see is that those insults and threats towards Gayle were a performance. When watching that video, I didn’t see a man who was hurting; pouring his grief out on film and through anger. I saw an expert performer who (rightly) assumed his fury would seem righteous if directed at a black woman he believed to be vulnerable to claims of antiblackness. Everything about it, from the positioning of the camera to the bonnet or whatever the fuck he was wearing, was stagecraft. A bully’s greatest weapon is his emotional intelligence. The best ones are experts at reading people/rooms and understanding human nature, and this is what enables them to choose the right targets. And of course, Snoop knew there was a virtual army of people ready to ride with him, as he has 150 million in the bank that proves that the vocalized and weaponized public disrespect of black women is a booming business. Perhaps America’s boomingest."
Unless you belong to an arbitrarily specific religion that prays exclusively to Gayle King and/or Oprah Winfrey, neither of those women are gods. Which means that neither is infallible. And if, for instance, you allowed Gayle to borrow your last $20 and she refuses to pay you back, or you...
verysmartbrothas.theroot.com
