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Yâall donât like Black Women and Iâm not here for it. If you donât like Black Women donât interact with my blog
Itâs not that they didnât know how to, they didnât want to cause this sounds amazing!
This movie was fantastic, the story was incredible, & the cinematography was beautiful.
its on hulu!!
It is an amazing movie
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How Black people are (de)valued at TV networks
This is about to be lengthy AF yet important.
During Mara Brock Akilâs interview on The Breakfast Club, alongside her lead actors for her newest show, Love Is__, she broke down how âBlack sitcoms and seriesâ are only âvaluedâ to draw in money for networks who havenât had a vast pulling power, before they cancel our shows to bring in âWhite shows and sitcoms,â which they invest marketing into.
âLetâs talk real on this. Weâre talking about value in this industry, in this country, and in this world. [âŚ]
âLetâs go back to the â90s. If you really think about it, although it was a really great timeâromantic, hopeful, inspirationalâthe tech industry was starting to open up, the whole [school-to-prison] pipeline monetization. There was money flowing. The interesting thing is corporate America, at that time, starting to realize, âOh, we can monetize Black culture!â So our music really took off, our fashion. Our shows were used, in my opinion, because sitcoms were the least expensive to produce content to put on the air to open up new channels. Our product was used to launch UPN and CW and even Fox.
âI was [a writer] at [the sitcom] South Central. South Central was on at Fox and then as soon as they got football, we lost South Central. In Living Color started to taper off. It was no longer. We werenât needed.
âEven when the CW came, as soon as we hold the audience, then here comes 90210 and they get all the money, the marketing and we get nothing. But we were holding it down with noâFor Girlfriends and The Game there was no marketing budget⌠And not until we got to BET. I will give BET the credit. They had to market but it was also a time of a Internet, which was a whole different beast at that time of promotion. But my first marketing campaign, like legitimately so, was at BETâŚ
âI used to write so many letters to the head of the network asking for a marketing plan, pitching my ideas. Most of that show was built upon on the publicity side, which is more of a hustle. But literally spending dollars on billboards, advertisement, commercialâŚthere was barely any budget for Girlfriends and The Game.
âIâm really appreciative, especially to Black women, because they recognized it first. When Black women love, we love strong, hard and long. They loved us and they spread the word. Thatâs how it stayed on the air.â
You can watch the whole interview here.
Black sitcoms/series are what have kept a number of networks afloat from the past to the present. Theyâre lucrative. The high numbers for our shows have always been there. Once weâre considered disposable in order to free up space for a âWhite showâ to roll in or thereâs a disagreement between the network and the showâs creators, we get tossed.Â
Case in point:Â A Different World drew in 25 million throughout their six seasons on NBC before being canceled because of their Rodney King episode:
Back in the 90s, sitcoms Martin and Living Single (the blueprint for Friends), and the hour-long police drama series, New York Undercover, used to draw in huge numbers on Thursday nights for FOX. There was no official reason put out as to why Martin was canceled in 1997 (despite the sexual harassment allegation at the time), and the other two were canceled the following year.Â
My guess for New York Undercover is that FOX wasnât feeling the showâs leads contract holdout, stalling production, and demanding to be paid what they felt they rightfully deserved. It explains why Eddie Torres was killed off that upcoming season (season 3), creating the downfall of the showâs direction. Hereâs an LA Times article from 1996:
The stars of Foxâs âNew York Undercoverâ were back on the beat Thursday, ending a contract holdout that briefly delayed production on the police drama. Actors Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo didnât report to work on Monday to begin shooting the programâs third season.
Universal Television, which produces the show, and executive producer Dick Wolf, played hardball in dealing with the pairâs demands, which, according to Wolf, included $75,000 per episode for one of the actors plus more creative input, âa gym and a star trailer and better food.â
That salary is estimated to be about three times what the stars make currently. DeLorenzo also wanted assurances that he would be allowed to direct episodes of the series. The matter was resolved late Wednesday, Wolf said, reporting that the pair returned to work âunder the terms and conditions of their original agreement.â
In addition to issuing a harshly worded statement calling such public demands âa virusâ in the entertainment industry, Wolf threatened to write the actors out of the show. Universal also filed a $1.2-million suit against them alleging breach of contract, maintaining that the delays were costing the production company $60,000 per day.
Observers think the âUndercoverâ stars may have been emboldened to hold out by the much-publicized salary dispute involving NBCâs âFriends,â whose six cast members are each seeking raises to more than $100,000 per episode.
Source
Mmm hmm. The Friends cast got $100,000 per episode, which was later upped to $1 million per episode. In syndication, the cast makes $20 million each in residuals each year. The cast of Living Single also had a walkout.Â
Erika Alexander who plays Maxine Shaw revealed their reasoning and dished on how much they were paid during her interview with The Breakfast Club:
âLiving Single was originally called Friends. We were originally called My Girls when we first did our pilot and it didnât test well. So they came down, we were now filming the actual series and one of the executives had a whole list of names, and he read them out. âLiving Single, Friends blah blah blah.â And they chose Living Single for us and then the next year they created Friends. The same peopleâWe were both at Warner Brothers. We were on the ranch lot and [Friends] was on the big lot. We called the ranch the ghetto lot because we had nothing on that lot. We actually had no air conditioning or heat. We had a walkout because we you know our craft service table was basically rice with Tabasco sauce and Ritz crackers.Â
âAt the end of our run, we were being paid a lot less and people say âWell you had a smaller market share.â I say âCompared to what?â If you think about how much they made [off Living Single] paying so little and how much they made in syndication all around the world all these years.
â[The cast of Friends got] $2.5 million [each] to [the cast of Living Single] $55,000 per episode [each]. Every week. We didnât get marketingâThere were a lot of things in place to keep the hold down and make you not feel as valuable. Iâm sure if they looked at it, and how much they made versus what they put in, Iâm sure weâre on par if not way beyond what they made.â
FOX is something else. Not to mention that FOX had a desire to make New York Undercover âwhiterâ as revealed here, which explains the cast shakeup, but thatâs another topicâŚÂ
Fast forward. All of this reminds me of how Nicole Beharie was treated on the FOX series, Sleepy Hollow. (Not necessarily a âBlack showâ but it had a Black lead.)
She was the lead character, the face of the show before being killed off in season 3. In the following season, the show unveiled a heavily white cast and it was canceled that next year. Ironic, huhâŚ
Remember Taraji P. Hensonâs excellent portrayal as Detective Carter, one of the main characters in Person of Interest?Â
Mmm hmm. Yep. You guessed it. She too was killed off in season 3 (before the white rollout) and the show started to take a nose dive. It was canceled by season 5. Not to mention, during the promo for the show before it premiered, there was controversy around the show because Taraji had tweeted: âWOW!!!! TV Guide is NOT including me on the cover with my cast membersâŚI am the female lead of a 3 member cast and Iâm not included on the cover!!!!!! Do you see the shit I have to deal with in this businessâŚ..I cram to understand!!!!â They only wanted the two white guys on it.
Rewind. In the late 90s, the budding networks, UPN and the WB, which both launched in 1995, were viewed as âBlack channelsâ because thatâs where all the Black sitcoms lived at that time. But as usualâŚÂ Smart Guy and The Wayans Bros brought in numbers for The WB, but they were both canceled by 1999.Â
Moesha and In the House (which had been picked up after being canceled by NBC), brought in numbers for UPN before beingâŚYep, canceled.
Hell, I bet some of yâall didnât know that The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was actually canceled TWICEÂ by NBC.
Yep. One of the most popular sitcoms of all-time with the most quotable theme song of all-time was canceled twice. Granted, in 1996, Will Smith was transitioning from the small screen to the big screen after the huge success of Bad Boys and Independence Day. So the network decided to cancel the it after the face of the show was parting ways. Hereâs an article from the LA Times from 1996:
With the final episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air airing tonight, Smithâs show is one of the rare programs that weathered NBCâs struggling yearsâbefore Jay Leno was beating David Letterman and ER and Friends were household names. A testament to the showâs wide-ranging popularity is the fact that during its six-year run, âFreshâ has never been moved from its original Monday slot at 8 p.m.
Because Smith has gone from being a novelty rapper to a budding film starâwith the 1995 hit Bad Boys and the likely summer blockbuster Independence Dayâhe decided this season would be the seriesâ last and that it was time for the show and actors to move on.
Source
However, the first cancelation was uncalled for.
After NBC canceled Fresh Prince in its fourth season, the finale had Smithâs character heading back to Philadelphia. After fan outcry, however, NBC decided to bring the show back; its fifth season opens with an NBC executive pulling Smith into a van to drive him back to California, saying âItâs called the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, not The Fresh Prince of Philadelphia.â Ultimately, the show had six seasons.
Source
You know it was from the âWhite fan outcry.â Letâs be honest, Black people donât have that kind of pulling power nor do they care about our outcry. Â
Now look at TV today. FOX needs Lee Danielsâ Empire and StarâŚfor nowâŚÂ
The CW canceled Girlfriends in 2008, and pushed Everybody Hates Chris and The Game to Friday nights (which is considered the âdeath slotsâ in tv) before canceling them the following year. Ten years later, the CW is reminiscing on the huge viewership and the coins those shows drew in for their network.Â
Well, well, well. Looky, looky. Tryna get that old thing backâŚ
The CW needs Mara Brock Akilâs show, Black LightingâŚfor nowâŚ.
NowâŚit explains the shakeups that have been going on recently with blackish, the showâs creator, Kenya Barris, and the showâs network, ABC. Notice the pattern. Will it be renewed next year?âŚ
Reminds me of what happened to NBCâs hit show, at the time, The Carmichael Show. Too many disagreements that the showâs creator left and the show was axed from the networkâŚÂ
âA wealthy white guy, a middle class white guy, and a poor black guy sit down at a dining table together. Thereâs a plate of 12 apples on the table, the wealthy white guy immediately grabs 11 of the apples and turns to the middle class white guy and says to him âWatch out that black guyâs trying to steal your apple.ââ
â The link between class & race and how racial resentment has been used to divide the white middle class and the black/Latino working poor in America.Â

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This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.
Adding women from Ecuador
The women of India. Protesting the discriminatory citizenship amendment law and violence against University students by the Government.
Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this.Â
Everyone should know these things.
thanks to mainstream media and being unable to show breasts on TV, way too few people know about female signs of cardiac distress, and impending heart attacks. they only know about the âpain in the left armâ male symptom.
i had all these symptoms once and they sent me right to hospital
it was scary bc i didnt know these were the symptoms for female heart issues
Please, please, PLEASE, reblog this. i donât know if I did save or called false alarm, with my bossâ life tonight. I felt I was being a bit paranoid, overreacting, but I told Mirage my thoughts and he, after reading over the article I showed him, immediately sprung into action and then shooed her off to the hospital. I donât know if I did or not, but I knew sheâd been super stressed. Sheâd off-handedly commented on her arm tingling and I asked her if she felt queasy on a hunch. I went to look at the symptoms and we went from there.
Holy shit, I didnât even think the symptoms would be different between men and women. This is so hugely important and I donât understand why we arenât taught this.Â
One of the other symptoms that doesnât get talked about , especially in women, is a âfeeling of impending doomâ. I am not even kidding, that is a legitimate diagnostic criteria. Please - if you are feeling any of these symptoms and a sudden onset of âHoly shit the world is endingâ do not let anyone tell you itâs âjust nervesâ or âjust heartburnâ or something.
Keep these in mind ESPECIALLY IF YOUâVE GOT HEART DISEASE IN YOUR FAMILY! So many more women die from heart attacks than because they donât recognize the symptoms when theyâre so different. Please stay safe and stay informed.
The tricky thing is that panick attacks can feel like this as well :/ However, you should know the symptoms, especially if you usually donât suffer from panick attacks.
Reblog to save many lives
I always feel like this so if I have a heart attack Iâm f u c k e d
For example Frederick Douglasâ wife did so much for his ungrateful ass. She helped him get on his feet, gave him her last name, and supported him financially and took care of house and home. And in return was does this nigga do? He lets white abolitionists tear her down and treat her like a slave in HER HOUSE. Moved two bitches into HER HOUSE over a span of 20 years. Belittles her for being illiterate while using HER MONEY. Not even in death does she get the respect she deserves. His last wife is more recognized as being apart of his life than she was. Just trash. And y'all still normalize that shit as if itâs a black womanâs job to struggle. Fuck that.
Fuck Frederick Douglas.
That negro was a massive hypocrite. How the fuck you wanna abolish slavery and support womenâs rights, then treat your own wife like shit?????????????????
^^^^ history left her out of his story too. Claiming his parents have him money to start up when it was her.
Donât forget MLK and Malcolm X
My heart broke a little but Iâm not surprised. What did Malcolm do ?
I donât know about Malcolm X, but I know that Martin Luther King was in love with a white caferteria lady name Betty that he was seeing while he was attending college. The only reason why he married Coretta and not the cafeteria worker is because his dad frowned upon it. Not only that but his best friend Ralph Abernathy and Jackie Onassis exposed him for being a sex craved phony that loved cheating on Coretta. I guarantee that if black women from the civil rights era could talk now, our heads would explode.Â
I mean if weâre gonna spill tea
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Our community has always treated us like shit no matter what. Not to mention Miss Claudette Colvin who was the actually pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus 9 months before Rosa but she was a dark skinned single mother so she wasnât good enough.Â
Letâs not forget Black Pantherâs leader Eldridge Cleaver and his famous book âSoul On Iceâ where he recounts how he practiced raping black women because he knew no one would care and when he âmastered his craftâ he starting raping white women. Also letâs never forget that he said that there is no more love left between black women and men and that everytime he embraces a black woman, he embraces slavery. Yâall gonâ get this history lesson today!
Wow⌠and somehow Iâm not even surprised.
I knew all of that. Martin was constantly cheating with white prostitutes even a German exchange student while protesting civil right. Cleaver was the worst. Preying on and raping young black girls in the hood as practice for raping white women. Claudette is still referenced as âthe other rosa parksâ when the light bright brigade âNAACPâ werenât gonna let her share her story to begin with.
Let this post never die. Black women were NEVER respected back in the day, and weâre STILL getting disrespected every minute.
WowâŚ.
[reasons why I think most Black dudes r performative when it comes to being *proBlack* n only know how to mirror yt ally theater/chase yt validation. n nonBlack ppl better back the fuck off this post and start combatting the antiBlackness before they even think of comment.]
Just a reminder that Claudette Colvin didnât get pregnant until 3 months after refusing her seat on the bus. She was a poor dark skinned girl. In her words âthey wanted someone PEOPLE would sympathize with and I didnât look like that.â Colorism AND Classism waaaay before Instagram đ
Bruh I learned all of this and more in my civil rights history class last semester. My professor actually got her doctorate in black women in the black power movement. Even though two black men from California started the radical group as we know it, black women did most of the work and kept the group afloat. By the 80s it was largely female led. Also, elderidge cleaver wrote an essay after getting out of prison where he recanted everything he said in soul on ice and this was largely due to the fact that women were running the bpp and told him he couldnât join if he was to co tibie to perpetuate this rape nonsense.
Also also claudette Colvin wasnât the only one who was forgotten during the Montgomery bus boycott. Do y'all know who Jo Ann Robinson is? Home girl was the backbone to the whole movement tbh. Yeah rosa (a trained activist btw) was the igniting flame and yes in her documents and Jo Annâs Claudette was credited as the inspiration, but jo Ann really kept the movement running. She organized car pools for all the black folks in Montgomery. Y'all the Montgomery bus boycott lasted for a year! People still had to get to work and shit. Jo Ann was on it! Plus she had a whole committee that was pushing for regulation changes and the end of segregation in busing. And hell, Montgomery buses were damn near reliant on black commuters so they eventually had to give.
Plus my all time fave is the homie Ella baker. Home girl ensured the founding of sncc when fuckboy Mlk tried to make them the youth chapter of the sclc. SNCC is the group that made sit ins a popular form of protest during the early civil rights movement. They founding students had their first sit in in 1960. Ella baker was like these students need their own separate movement and the sclc ainât it. Plus she was a true proponent of self determination which was clear in everything that sncc did.
Basically what Iâm trying to say is black women been the backbone of society and they still are.
Letâs also talk about how Huey P Newton, the founder of the BPP ordered the severe beating of Regina Davis. Regina Davis was an administrator at a BP school and was literally jumped for reprimanding a male BP member. She was beaten so bad that she was in the hospital for a broken jaw and had to flee to LA for her own safety. Her attack was a deliberate message to all female BP because the men were getting  upset with the increasing power black women had in the party and wanted to put them in their place.
In 1974 Huey P Newton also shot and killed a 17 year old sex worker in Oakland named Kathleen Smith in the face for calling him âbabyâ and because she didnât give him the ârespectâ he wanted (x)Â
and who could forget good olâ Harry Belafonte and how he treated Ertha Kitt way back whenÂ
Ellen Holly was a super light skin soap opera actress who claimed to have a similar experience with Harry Belafonte before he married a white woman and called him out in her autobiography about his behavior towards black women
THIS IS WHY WHEN PATRICIA ARQUETTE SAID WOMEN HAVE HAD TO TAKE A BACKSEAT TO OTHER GROUP´S PROGRESS SHE WAS RIGHT!Â
BUT YâALL WERE SO UPSET WITH HER
That white woman ainât got nothing to do with this. Weâre talking about black womenâs treatment here.
How dare you bring Patricia Arquettes white feminist ass on a post about the treatment of Black Women
That was a much needed thread. Reminds me of the first time I discovered Tumblr and learned so much about feminism and womenâs history. To add my 2 cents to this, I put the pictures of most of the ladies mentioned above (I couldnât find a picture of Regina Davis, if you have one thatâd be great), so that anyone discovering these wonderful women can put a face to their name.Â
unfortunately there are no known or publicly available pictures of Regina Davis or Kathleen Smith
Keep this thread going and share the stories of how Black women have been degraded by black mens sexismÂ
Just to add some more, letâs not forget the importance of Shirley Chisholm. She was an unapologetic black feminist who fought for the rights of women and the poor in her community. Â She was a founding member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Womenâs Caucus.Â
She was the first black women ever elected to the US congress and was the first woman and black american to ever run for the president of the US. Her campaign to be the democratic nominee was treated like a joke, and although she had the support of her loyal husband she received NO SUPPORT Â from black male leaders. Her campaign went underfunded and the men of the black caucus rallied around white male candidates instead because they were pissed off that she was getting attention and wanted a black male candidate instead.
âThey think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesnât mean the black woman must step back.â(x)
Donât let this thread die! Keep commenting and bringing to light the stories of black women. Just adding more about the black panthers, a lot of people donât realize that black panther chapters spread across the world to unite black and dark skinned people.Â
In 1972 Dennis Walker, a black aboriginal Australian cofounded the Australian Black Panther Party (ABPP).
As always black women made up the back bone of the movement, organizing, protesting, and working in the ABPP schools/medical centers. Marlene Cummins, one of the first black women leaders in the movement recently spoke about about the abuse she and other women endured. Marlene and Dennis dated for some time and she has admitted that he was verbally abusive, violent, and cheated on her with white women. She once saw him smash a broken bottle onto a womenâs face, which eventually led to their breakup.
She also revealed that she was raped by two indigenous leaders at the time (one aboriginal and the other torres strait islander) which was recorded on tape.
âThere were men who are immortalized in history as heroes. Some of them are and some of them arenât. [Some of them] are not heroes. They were rapists and perpetrators.â
âThere were no support systems and womenâs refuges werenât as prevalent as they were today. Womenâs rights were not voicedâŚ[So can you imagine] what it was like for young girls with no support networks in those days, when those things â rapes by uncles â were not spoken of. How can you deal with that?
ââŚEven if you did report a crime, you were questioned whether it happened to you because you contributed to it: you asked for it!â
Iâve see a lot of people leaving comments asking for more information/resources to look into these women. A bit a googling will bring you plenty of reliable resources.
Marlene has a documentary out which can be seen here for free (x). I would also suggest reading this books by black panther women (x), (x), (x), (x) and this book that actually details the work some black men such as Fred Hampton did to address misogyny in the movement.Â
LESSONS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS
Did Harry ever apologize for his comments? Especially since heâs been championed for doin work for the Black community and allâŚ
Russiaâs Big Ballet-Â
The Big Ballet is a troupe of dancers from Russia who weigh a minimum of 220 pounds each.Â
âThe Big Ballet formed in 1994 and set out to deliberately and, above all, self-confidently challenge accepted social standards in a world where the pursuit of slenderness and beauty seems obsessive. The dancers courageously and imposingly prove that grace, elegance, charisma and nimbleness is not the demesne of the âthinâ, proudly presenting their voluptuous yet surprisingly sinuous and flexible figures.â
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