This bullshyt right now is the fault of one person.
The other 2 put together a conference and has our people doing real world grassroots politics.
Listen, I've followed and supported Yvette when she was with Boyce on YouTube nearly a decade ago. I don't think there's anyone on this forum that defends her more than I do.
When these other brehs disparage TLR, "militants" and online Youtubers, I argue for their/OUR perspective as legitimate.
Moreover, I make the case that this is just a reflection of what's happening in the broader black community. I know much of the stuff Tone and Yvette says is a just simplified version of what's been happening in black academia for years. Everything from the data and yes even the immigrant stuff; which comes out of the Lani Guinier, Skip Gates discussion, that Darity and others have kept alive for the last decade. It's one of the reasons I'm not surprised Cornel is sympathetic to ados.
I need everyone on this forum that cares about black people to come to terms with what LEGITIMACY means to us as people as we navigate financially and politically as a group, or as individuals. I embrace alternative voices in our community because I know the constraints that exist for black people who are involved in mainline politics. That class has failed us no doubt, however, to cash out we have to go to that same government window. Tone and Yvette were smart enough to know they had to go off YouTube to do it.
It requires a level of political and social legitimacy that someone like Tariq doesn't have and most importantly doesn't want to claim.
Tariq often says smart and reasonable things that many people agree with but most folks with something to lose don't want to touch him with a ten-foot pole for numerous reasons that Tone and Yvette were already privy to. Associating with Tariq is a quick way to ruin you credibility and legitimacy when trying to engage in mainline politics.
Tariq can lie all he wants about shaming the democrats with that tweet, but this wasn't that. This was brazen, seeming endorsement of Trump. Ebro immediately took that tweet and used it against Antonio.
Tariq was
almost correct in nearly everything he said tonight except for the major omission that his TRUMP tweet was anything but a
fukking bomb he dropped. Not only was #ados on the front page of the New York Times, but the reporter shut Talib's right-wing conspiracy down on Twitter by saying she found no evidence of right-wing support. I don't know why Tariq did it what he did, but it doesn't matter.
Tone and Yvette can't let Tariq amplify their message for a year and then try to disentangle from him like this. This is the exact reason "reputable" people stay way the fukk away from people like Tariq. You can't kick Tariq out the house in a day after he's spent a year moving his shyt in your home.
Tariq basically told everyone tonight that he was a hustler and that Tone was game goofy and he was right. This wasn't the way to break away from Tariq. Tariq was already pivoting away and this was the opportunity for Yvette and Tone to let him and close ranks or go more mainstream since they been in the NYT and they've been making connections with the CBC.
Starting an internet beef with Tariq Nasheed is the last thing that they've should of done. It's a lose-lose for any direction they choose to go in.