If you’re an employee you answer to SOMEBODY. There’s nothing wrong with being an employee as not everyone is built for being an entrepreneur, hell many self made start OUT as employees. But the FACT remains that if you are employee you are not the one in charge; which means you have little leverage and definitely have something to lose.
Kevin Samuels had a harsh delivery, and I wasn’t a “fan” persay of his because as right as he was about a LOT of things, there were also things he said that I wholeheartedly didn’t agree with. I fall more in the line of Dr T Hassan’s presentation and philosophies personally. But again, no matter what ANYONE thought of Samuels presentation; he wasn’t “cancellable” because he had no boss. He reported to no one. He really had NOTHING to lose by saying whatever he said however he wanted.
This woman clearly forgot that SHE, as an employee, had something to lose. If Kevin Samuels were to say “90% of my clients are black females. These wack ass, dusty bytches need therapy because black men NEED ya’ll too and because ya’ll hoes need it more than anyone else”. Well the worse that can happen is that his audience (which I perceive to be more black female than black male) would abandon him. His subscribers would fall, and he’d have to either fall back or come up with different talking points.
This lady, who used the same language, not only offended the majority of her own SELF ADMITTED clientele (black males) she did so while putting the reputation of her place of work (and therefore her bosses) at high risk. She clearly didn’t think about nor consider the consequences of these actions; and as such she was given a harsh reminder of what being an employee means. It means your employment can be terminated. It means that social media is NOT YOUR FRIEND. I don’t know how many examples of this are needed for people (both black men AND women) who do not own their platforms to wake the fukk up.
Regarding her tone and delivery. Yes it was harsh, but it was also contradictory and drenched in misandry. Now if we want to say all things considered, her tone, delivery, and message are the misandrist equivalent to Kevin Samuels being misogynistic; then lets say I agree. If she had her own platform that she ran and operated equivalent to what Kevin Samuels built, then God Speed to her. She has the right of freedom of speech and can talk however she wants. And those who support her will and those who don’t won’t. Black men who didn’t like or agree with her message could cry, complain, debate, or simply ignore what she’s speaking on. The same way black women did Kevin Samuels.
So in conclusion. She was an idiot for running to social media to air out complaints about the largest portion of her clientele (as a so called professional) she was an idiot for thinking that that portion of her clientele whom she was addressing wouldn’t make their offense KNOWN (as a so called Professional) She was an idiot for using language and tone that could easily be viewed as conduct detrimental to the reputation of her EMPLOYER (as a so called PROFESSIONAL)
