Another thing that shouldn’t go unnoticed is the refusal from almost ANYONE to listen to and believe black boys.
-Loquareeous wasn’t dancing to impress his white class mates. He was dancing because he was celebrating being able to see Black Panther 2 (in effect he was celebrating black excellence) when he tried to tell his mother and Grandfather he wasn’t believed.
-Loquareeous did NOT call CPS on his mother. But when he tried to tell her that, he wasn’t believed.
-Loquareeous told Amber (white lesbian) that the house stank. He wasn’t believed.
-Loquareeous told Amber & Gayle the food they prepared was unsanitary and would make him sick. He wasn’t believed, even when he GOT SICK
-Loquareeous told Amber and Gayle both several times that he was hungry. He wasn’t believed
-Loquareeous told the cop he was being abused. He wasn’t believed.
Only AFTER the CPS lady showed up to the house, saw the filthy living conditions, the lesbian couples strange behavior, the young black girl fatima’s sickness, AND Loquareeous‘s emaciated physical condition was he finally believed. How does this mirror real life? Black men’s issues and problems dealing with the system of white supremacy are RARELY taken seriously UNTIL one of us winds up severely hurt or dead. The issues with police brutality against black boys and men wasn’t taken seriously for DECADES until several young black men were MURDERED ON CAMERA at the hands of police. Black men on the whole in society have been programmed to “toughen” up and bear there mistreatment. Only to be taken seriously when we commit suicide or lash out. A lot of black men are not believed until in some, shape, or fashion its too late.