When society thinks about white woman they don't think exclusively about the Hawk Tuah girl.
But when it thinks about black women, they think more often than not about Cardi B and Sexy Red.
The powers that be are financially and socially profiting off denigrating our image. But they wouldn't be able to do that if we weren't constantly making excuses for it: from "new" feminists exalting thot rap as some sort of real freedom; to black individuals constantly getting excited to point at some random white and say "see they do it too!"; or saying something similar happened before so it's fine now to any degree.
There's always going to be some degree of promiscuity in art - that's healthy. But it's been getting unbalanced for the black community. And it's c00nish to allow it.
@bourgeoisie tall freak beat me to my own response...
The public image and perception of Black women (black people period) has ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS been negative in the United States of America. They have ALWAYS profited off of denigrating our image, whether we made excuses for it or not...
You guys' issue isn't a Sexyy Red issue, it's a marketing issue as the hands and power that control her push are the same hands and power that have always controlled black imagery in America...
There's so much wrong with this thread
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Hip hop is bigger in 2024 than it was in '94, '04, and even '14. So if it seems like negative imagery of hip hop artists is marketed more it's only because it's the most marketable and most popular genre. When it was less popular they still marketed the "bad examples" yall lament in here, to the fan base. And because we know most hip hop consumers
are not black its not "black people" fueling the brunt of her success, its these white chicks I saw at a stoplight recently playing her shyt, who are buying her shyt...
For the "fukk hip hop" crowd in here, blaming hip hop for society's negative view of Black people is uneducated, what the fukk do you think those Blaxploitation movies in the 70s did for us? White money and power didn't need hip hop to craft negative images of Black people
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I'm happy there is a black woman in herself and Black talent around her (whether songwriters, choreographers, stylists, managers, etc) able to eat from her talent, as there was certainly a time we couldn't profit off of our image at all. Is she the most positive example of Black women? No. Is she the worst thing I've ever seen happen to black women publicly? Also no...