Deante’ Kyle
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We don't want to talk about the drug uses and alcoholism and abuse that goes on in the Hispanic community, but anybody that spent time around them know it's there.
We don't talk about some of the more predatory practices that go on in these Asian communities, but we know it's there.
A lot of communities have big, big flaws.
And more often than not, they're character flaws and not flaws of effect.
A lot of the flaws in the black community are flaws of effect.
A lot of them are effects of y'all won't stop fucking with us.
It would be hard to see what our baseline human flaws are because y'all won't leave us to fuck alone.
So it's very easy to design us also as criminals when that's the only thing for a long period of time that you would hire us for in film and media, is to be a criminal, to be a slave, to be a drug pusher, to be a pimp, to be a whore, to be a junkie, to be a fucking coon.
A lot of times that is the roles that the people who control Hollywood saw fit for us to fill.
And anytime that we saw that we were in roles of empowerment, and especially in films where we were predominant, there was always pushback for that.
That's the pushback for sinners.
That's the pushback for that Eddie Murphy film.
What's the Eddie Murphy film?
Yeah, and they was doing well.
They was upper middle class people.
They was doing really well.
They was living well.
That was the backlash for the Cosbys.
Anytime black people are...