Oh shyt, so they have "Scandal" Viewing Parties now? (photos included)

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Okay, I'm not on either side of this (disclaimer: :whoa:) because personally I've watched 10 mins of it and didn't get it but I saw this was tweeted. It's an post on why black men hate Scandal.

Scandal: On Black Men’s Disdain For “Olivia Pope”
Obviously the trifecta that I mentioned before, a Black woman writer/producer, a Black woman lead on the show, and Black women being fans of the show (though not the only fans) means an incredible amount of bigotry comes about in relation to the show. Anti-nuanced and irritating bigots, including Black men have already started on Twitter with the hateful tweets since season 3 premieres tonight. Of course there is the usual slut shaming that is a snooze and a bore. I tweeted this in response to that:

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A few Black men took the very boring and limited thinking approach of calling “Olivia Pope” a “slave” since she is Black and “Fitzgerald Grant” is White. I’ve already deconstructed why this ignorance is beyond wrong when I wrote about a false equalization people assert between the film Monster’s Ball and Scandaland in relation to the Sally Hemings/Thomas Jefferson false equalization (that Shonda Rhimes herself deconstructed within the show, which was genius by the way) often presented by those who refuse to think and whose critical thinking skills are clouded by their misogynoir.

What’s interesting here is Black men are quick to call a Black woman with a White man a “slave” or “whore” regardless of power, context or agency, but would be livid to be called a “rapist” for being with a White woman. And both of these labels are grounded in history, not just the former one. And while they may think they can escape this labeling because of their male privilege that they thoroughly enjoy while denying its existence, they might want to re-examine Black sexual politics and politics between Black men and White women; because of race their male privilege did not always guarantee them sexual agency. Even today, despite what “mainstream feminists" who are White think, in many ways White women have incredibly more power than Black men, no matter how much they complain about the 15th Amendment predating the 19th one. Even a White feminist Chelsea Fagan notes:

I’m sorry, I would rather smear and deny the feminist movement all day if the alternative was having my head so far up my own ass that I believed a middle-class white female college student was IN ANY WAY worse off or more oppressed than a lower-class black guy. Hell, even a middle-class black guy. Hell, fukking FOREST WHITAKER can’t even go shopping without getting accused of stealing and he’s a fukking millionaire Oscar winner.

Boom goes the dynamite! So if Black men are going to assert that any Black person in a sexual relationship with a White person is automatically a “slave,” even today with class differences, choices, and agency for many Black people despite us still of course facing racism, they aren’t thinking with nuance. And it is comical how this thought process for them only applies to Black women. Male privilege is so ugly in a patriarchal society. And while it’s not protection for Black men interracially at times, it most certainly is intraracially. And while marginalized for race and for many class, Black men still have male privilege, even though it differs from White men’s.
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I couldn't fit the whole article in (character limits) but here's the link: http://www.gradientlair.com/post/63011394513/black-men-hate-olivia-pope-scandal
 
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We get it, no white man could ever be geniunely attracted to black woman.
 
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