Kevin Samuels Discussion Thread

[MVike28]

how about to each their own.

as long as your grooming, cleanliness, fitness is on point. Dressing is the easy part.

But wearing a full three piece suit with a crossbag to the mall is ridiculous fukk outta here

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Some of those fits are fresh, some seem like they're trying to hard and doesn't look natural.

Another thing is, our women don't go crazy over a classic man like they do and tatted up bad boy. Plus hood dudes money is as long as a lot business dudes. Women

I understand Kevin. I truly do, but he really downplays racism and its psychological effects.

Saying Birth of a Nation started the second Klan is like saying Uncle Tom's Cabin helped free enslaved people. It completely overlooks our efforts to control our image and how white folks violently respond to us. 1877-1917 was the disenfranchisement of black people in the South after reconstruction. Before the Birth of a Nation, lynching existed. Jim Crow started in1896.


We can have a conversation about the image. I have read Tommy Curry, btw. (I even cite him in my work)

Had a conversation with an Afghan uber driver in DC. We briefly discussed the political situation there and who is at fault. A quote,

"...can't blame outsiders for our country being messed up."

 

[filial_piety]

I definately think KS is right to a large extent but for the Brehs who are old enough to remember the 80s and 90s...Black Men (and women) have come a long WAY in the image/fashion department.

I mean believe it or not, in the 80s and 90s young black men and women 9.9 times out of 10 ONLY dressed in hip hop/ street trends...you never saw BM wearing sports coats, slacks, suits, shoes etc unless they were really in corporate or legal professions...and in every major city that was extremely rare. And the only other dudes who wore that stuff were usually gay in some type of way.

If you came rockin a preppy look in the 80s and 90s as someone under the age of 30...you probably would have gotten clowned and people would have claimed that you were dressing or acting "white"

Today....young black kids are way more diverse in their styles and music tastes. The Brooks Brothers/Bergdorf Goodman casual professional everyday look is far more acceptable and normal now, so imo the change has come...it was slow but it has changed

 

[DreadBrown]

Kevin I know you stalk this thread.

Chronicles of Judah on his Patreon gave you a s/o the other day. He says he has no problem with what you do. He's glad you have your own platform. He also said he is impressed at the patience you have talking to the modern black woman because he said he couldn't do it.

he don’t even read his own comments section I never understand why breddas think he lurks here

 

[MikelArteta]

I'll wear whatever I want. Changing your image means nothing you're just a nikker in a coupe. White people for the most part dress sloppy as hell but no one cares

Moist Nikka wears a suit at home

 

[Neuromancer]

how about to each their own.

as long as your grooming, cleanliness, fitness is on point. Dressing is the easy part.

But wearing a full three piece suit with a crossbag to the mall is ridiculous fukk outta here

Your two statements contradict each other. You say to each his own then clown someone else's fit. How is that any different than me thinking dudes walking around in Jordan's and designer jeans belong in a school yard?

 

[King Sun]

Well gay men do know how to dress

-the coli​

 

[Curufinwe]

He want black people to be gay so he can fukk them...
Hell No.

 

[filial_piety]

A lot of hit dogs in here. He didn’t say wear only suits. Y’all know some jeans and a button up works at the grocery store too. You know shorts and a polo work in 90 degree heat too.

Just say you still living out your childhood brehs. I am TOO. I still rock all the same childish shyt as I did in high school. But unlike some, I don’t pretend it’s something else. There is no reason a 30-40 year old man should be dressing like his son everyday. Not every damn day.

nikkas 36 and dressing like Jadakiss 2005

im all for the wear what you wanna wear....but a lot of these dudes is 30 going on 15...nothing worse than seeing grown black men dressing in styles intended for teenagers

 

[---]

I posted this last month but this guy DeAndre Brossard on IG has @blackmenswear. He travels to different cities and gets Black Men to dress in suits to change the narrative. I think it's dope as fukk this is going on. I went to the Houston one last month.

This right here is going to make me break my social media rule! This is beyond dope!

 

[Curufinwe]

Martin Luther and Malcolm wore suits 24/7 and were shot in them.

There was no Jordans, dreads, athletic gear, torn skinny jeans etc in the 50s and 60s, yet Black people were terrorised, hounded, hunted and stigmatised by the entire white society and all its levers.

Black people must stop thinking that appeasing racists by acting meek in a suit will make them love us. That to me is stupid, we have experience going back centuries with white people so must now know they are what they are no matter the year.

We are a colorful, bright, creative and fashionable people whose spirit cannot be confined to the whims and evil desires of a lunatic white population.

These people believe in their heart of hearts that Trump won the election, isn't responsible for half a million covid deaths and was a great statesmen.
Trust me, such people don't give a fukk what a Black is wearing or his grooming. Whether you're LeBron in a suit or the average dude they still hate your guts.

You post has to be put on the front page of TheColi forever.

 

[feelosofer]

I think the other thing is that there is a middle ground, you can wear street clothes and still look classy and you can wear casual men's fineries with maybe some nice Nike canvas shoes or some nice sporting leather like driver's shoes

Joker Sporty Genuine Leather Driving Shoes

 

[Tribal Outkast]

A lot of hit dogs in here. He didn’t say wear only suits. Y’all know some jeans and a button up works at the grocery store too. You know shorts and a polo work in 90 degree heat too.

Just say you still living out your childhood brehs. I am TOO. I still rock all the same childish shyt as I did in high school. But unlike some, I don’t pretend it’s something else. There is no reason a 30-40 year old man should be dressing like his son everyday. Not every damn day.

nikkas 36 and dressing like Jadakiss 2005

I’ve been wearing jeans and button ups pretty much all my life so I guess I’m good lol. I think the problem with this thread and threads like them is when people post these dudes wearing what most of the people in the OP are wearing and shytting on people wearing Jordan’s and other comfortable shyt. The best thing to post IMO is a bruh wearing a simple button up with khakis or slacks with nice shoes THATS IT! The dude with the “If Marvin Gaye never made it as a singer, he’d be fixing cars” look is doing too much, also the guy with the Hawaiian shirt and them crazy pleated shorts. One of my best friends that I consider my brother taught me a lesson earlier into adulthood that I will always remember. He said you need to keep a black and a blue suit in the closet because you never know when you’ll need it. This brotha came in off the block into my job and wore super big ass clothes to work lol. The mans suit game is 100% though. I didn’t realize that whenever I was going to events at the time, I was sticking out in that bytch dressed like a T Mobile salesman or some shyt Anyway, just be prepared for the occasion: I don’t think you have to dress up to go wash your car or some shyt.

 

[OG Talk]

Respectability politics based question about modern racism.

Try not to get in your feelings before answering the question. Because I know how some of y’all can get emotionally triggered.

But in the last 30 years we’ve seen hundreds (maybe thousands) of clips of Black men being beat, abused and murdered by the police.

In all of these videos. How many of the Black male victims were wearing a suit at the time?

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

he don’t even read his own comments section I never understand why breddas think he lurks here

Because I know for a fact he has remixed some of my posts
It’s too damn coincidental that brehs will say something
Then you listen to the show
And it’s an actual discussion going on in here the day before his shoot
Aba and Preach do the same thing
And Mediocre Tutorial and Reviews done said some shyt from this thread too
TLR is wide open for internet searches
And when Kev says “research”
Breh is too big now and guarantee he curates everything said about him across the interwebs