NPR revisits the black gender war discourse over the Color Purple...I didn't know how big of a deal this was back then

[Sway]

Then get you a white bytch and move the fukk on then

Ok.

 

[Wildhundreds]

It's definitely uncomfortable and I can see ppl using it to get their trash hot takes off, when the discussion is so, so nuanced.

The spirit of this movie reared its head during the R Kelly fiasco when older men didn't have a problem with the situation.. And they often brought up this time period of the color purple.

 

[feelosofer]

The Black Gender Wars has been going on in some form since the 70s.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The spirit of this movie reared its head during the R Kelly fiasco when older men didn't have a problem with the situation.. And they often brought up this time period of the color purple.

REALLY?

Man, I really didn't observe this angle with the color purple being brought up with R Kelly

 

[I Really Mean It]

trust a book about black love from this woman, brehs.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

trust a book about black love from this woman, brehs.

 

[Wildhundreds]

REALLY?

Man, I really didn't observe this angle with the color purple being brought up with R Kelly

They didn't bring up the color purple verbatim.. The men, and some women, routinely mentioned "this is what they did back in the day".. The time period was during the 20s-50s on former plantations throughout the south. The Color Purple was just a movie centered around that era.

 

[Wildhundreds]

trust a book about black love from this woman, brehs.

You saying those things didn't happen? If so, you don't talk to your elders in your family. Or your family was descendants of house negros.

 

[FluffyEyes]

The spirit of this movie reared its head during the R Kelly fiasco when older men didn't have a problem with the situation.. And they often brought up this time period of the color purple.

That was a nasty time. I was like 13-14 years old and hearing the way ppl discussed that R Kelly situation was shocking to me. I knew that back in the 80s TCP was controversial. It was really a discussion about the representation of BM in media vs opening up the conversation around the experiences of BW and it's unfortunate that white supremacy forces us into these stumbling blocks.

 

[Wildhundreds]

That was a nasty time. I was like 13-14 years old and hearing the way ppl discussed that R Kelly situation was shocking to me. I knew that back in the 80s TCP was controversial. It was really a discussion about the representation of BM in media vs opening up the conversation around the experiences of BW and it's unfortunate that white supremacy forces us into these stumbling blocks.

Probably because a lot of black men and women passed that trauma down through the generations. We have to examine the trauma that happened to both men and woman because I still haven't heard anyone discuss how R Kelly was molested by family members.

 

[saturn7]

mods need to sticky this

No they don't.




The fukking ego on this guy.

 

[earthwalka]

It’s crazy listening to the podcast and they have that panel from damn near 40 years ago, discussing the same shot we discuss today.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It’s crazy listening to the podcast and they have that panel from damn near 40 years ago, discussing the same shot we discuss today.

the SAME shyt

Slave Play
Birth of a Nation
12 Years a Slave
Emancipation
Belle
Harriet
Django
Free State of Jones
Amistad

etc...

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

My wife read the book.

She told me that the movie adds in A LOT more shyt. The book is just a series of letters that Nettie wrote (I think) but the movie expanded on things far beyond what you read.

Not sure if the movie makes BM look better or worse than the book.

Either way, it's not like that shyt didn't happen, so I'm not going to get too offended.