KUDOs to MHP!!
MHP and her Supporters on this morning's show (MSNBC), introduced a term I was not familiar with: "Intersectionality". You can check it out, as I did, on line. As a "feminist sociological theory", it is attributed to Kimberle` Crenshaw, in1989. Actually, Flo Kennedy tried, in vain, to get Women of Color to understand this phenomenon in the Mid-Seventies; when it became clear that they were "swallowing" white feminism, and getting little or nothing in return! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Long before MEDIA, as we know it today; as a matter of fact, I became first aware with the NAT KING COLE Show, on NBC in the late Fifties; Entertainment has a been the dominant method for our Racist Nation (formed by our FOUNDERS to be a "White" Country) to propagate its Race Propaganda. Nat's show was forced off the Air by protests that "Whites in the South would stop buying Cadillacs" -- General Motors was the Sponsor of that ill-fated attempt to "integrate" T.V. in the USA.
This morning's discussions centered on Matt Damon, and White Male Late-Night Show Hosts, and their failure, or unwillingness, to use Non-whites and Women as Writers for their Shows.
What Artists of Color don't "Get" is the psychological cloud in which all of this takes place. Many, if not most, citizens of this Country are convinced, or at least "conditioned" by a belief that Non-whites are really Whites with darker skins! That BELIEF convincesWhite, market-driven, producers of Entertainment (all forms) to ignore significant economic interests of Persons of Color in their business practices. There is no negative consequence to what whites do. Persons of Color will buy their product, and, when they do "break-through", they most often "ape" whites in their appearance or in their portrayals. Always seeking to be "different", while remaining the "same"; they're forced to constantly "innovate": It doesn't take Whites very long to "COPY" those innovations; and then force the innovators aside. NOTE: to ALL Entrepreneurs of Color, (and women): you will find a version of this syndrome also applies to "Inventions" and "New Ideas"!! Once those with more money "get it", Creators-of-Color are caste-aside, and very often not paid ANYTHING!! Profitable businesses are often lost through this phenomenon!
Stay Vigilant! Persons of Color have to determine whether their "differences" are really more than surface-deep, and make corrections in their behaviors, accordingly. They will never achieve true FREEDOM until they do. Unfortunately, they have failed to deal with this phenomenon at it ROOT: most people can reason, by the age of 6, that Jesus cannot be the figure reprsented to ALL by Europeans! Whites re-wrote the Bible in 1611 -- they did NOT WRITE the Bible, originally!
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