Jade Cargill
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They would have still got joked on, but those wouldn't have been the jokes.
But he's made nappy-headed jokes about Gina before.
He might have said something about like, oh, like you need to straighten your hair or something like that.
But even that in itself is anti-Black.
Just because he's saying it to a light-skinned woman is still anti-Black woman.
Like making comments about Black woman's hair is anti-Black.
Now, I'm not vilifying Martin because...
We are much more aware of these things these days.
But just because nobody was talking about it back then doesn't mean that people can't look back and peep it.
We look back on old TV shows all the time and peep shit that was like, that was a little crazy.
Doesn't mean anybody deserves to be canceled or anything like that.
No, but Ari just came out and said that she felt some type of way about that because those are anti-Black women tropes.
There's nothing manly.
It makes sense if that's coming from somebody who's not a black man who we know loves black women.
But that's like saying black people can't be colorist and that's not true because we're the worst at it.
White people is just, you a nigga.
Light skin, dark skin, you a nigga.