You don't have to apologize, it's a dialogue we need to have. This just might be the wrong thread to do it.

A thin rewrite by literally just changing character names
Leaking brings legal hell no one can imagine (Disney lawyers )

You know what I forgot about that, nobody wants smoke from the mouse

Nigga you saying I can’t read but some how keep misappropriating what I said to fit your narrative that some how insecure is a less authentic piece of black narrative because YOU perceive the “blackness” displayed on the show as performative in an effort to garner white audiences instead of what it actually is which is simply black people being black people. SAY IT WIT ME NOW NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE SAME! NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL! NOT ALL BLACK SHOWS ARE CREATED EQUAL! Yet, there are certain experiences in which we all share in simply by virtue of being black. Of course there are certain cultural differences between a black man in Angola and a black man in Harlem. Why you brought this dumb ass point up I’ll never know but they are both black men in the world trying to navigate, even all the way from Angola, predominantly white spaces. So there’s a shared experience in that that we all have. Weird then how in one breath you can suggest that this is false and that not all black People are the same, and that black people In Timbuktu are different than black People in Long Beach California and in the same breath suggest that the template, the blueprint for the authentic black experience, some how the show that actually gets it right on “blackness” on screen is f***ing Queen Sugar because the light skin kid doesn’t feel the need to say “bruh” all the time or some dumb ass s*** and speaking as a nigga actually from Louisiana, Queen sugar ain’t no where near as authentic as you think. Not even close. SO SHUT YO DR UMAR TIN FOIL FITTED HEAD ASS UP!

I didn't bring up authentic black experiences. I said QS shows black people being... Different.

Again, read before quoting me. My point was the perfomative hood s*** = black s*** is f***ing fake and dangerous. It's perfomative blackness, which has been studied by black scholars and discussed culturally for years.

I do not care where you're from, and imagine calling me a hotep because I think black people should be true to themselves. This is some next level clownery. You don't even get my actual point.

The "light skin kid" doesn't act like what he is not. He is not from no ends, he doesn't know what that is like. He was raised differently in a different setting and acts like it while still being a black boy. He doesn't perform something that isn't him.

As a non-black person, I enjoyed this show very much. Rashida will always be bae my gf liked it too, she's half black.

I really don't understand how you don't get the point.

On one hand black people will complain about the lack of depth in black stories then in the other hand defend criticisms of shows that stop that progression.

All black people don't have some universal culture, that's erasure. This is worse when these kinds of things are done on shows when:

1. Most of the viewers are white.
2. The "hood blacks" stereotypes only exist for jokes
3. White spaces.

Stop quoting me about this with paragraphs like a dumbass that are irrelevant to the points I was making.

I don’t know how else to put this too You but the idea that some how the characters on queen sugar are a truer depiction of how black people should act simply because they don’t engage in what you would describe as “performative hood s***” is absolutely idiotic. I don’t know how else to put that to you. It literally sounds like self hate and pure ignorance to suggest that it is some how fake or performative. As if blackness is this sort of finite degree instead of the spectrum that it actually is. Just because the characters walk and talk a certain way doesn’t make what they do any more or less performative. Micah doesn’t act the way he acts because he’s found the true authentic key to being black in America. He acts that way because he’s a child of affluence raised in the upper class private schools of L.A.. If he were dropped in the insecure universe, he would no doubt be more or less the same because his experience would be the same. It has nothing to do with his blackness or the definition of. To contrast that against the characters on shows like Insecure or Atlanta(which speaking as a nigga who currently lives here is as accurate of a depiction of blackness in this city as you will ever f***ing find),as if their individual personalities are some how less authentic, is just plain f***ing stupid.

You're just not smart. I didn't say anything about how people should act.

This is the last time I'm posting about this and I will make it as clear and dumbed down as possible.

Putting on a hood act to make dialogue in a show more funny when the character is not hood is perfomative.

That's it. That's the critique. Maybe you should actually read on the subject of perfomative blackness so you don't have anymore mental breakdowns calling me a self hater because I said putting on hood culture for cheap laughs only cacs are laughing at is perfomative blackness.

You’re trolling

I swear y’all didn’t understand the point of this video

I know exactly what you are saying and I’m telling you it’s f***ing stupid. as I have already said, what you call “performative” is black People being black people on an already wide spectrum of black people. And again, to suggest that these niggas are in the writers room brain storming on how they can make white People laugh to today simply because they are acting in a manner that YOU deem cheap and inauthentic is PLAIN-FUCKING-STUPID

Oh my God lmao some niggas just born stupid.

Every black person is hood. Being hood is being black.

That black dude that grew up in the Valley is a hood nigga and speaks like one because that's just being black.

This didn't get enough love when it came out

Niggas just saw “black Friends” and kept it moving

You would have to know Living Single & the story behind it to get the video tbh.

Again, you’re miss appropriating what I’m saying to further your nut ass point Oh great and powerful guru blackness Please hear my cry. In no way, shape, or form did I say that acting or being “hood” is more or less authentic than not being. Once again, blackness is a spectrum. I can pull from any one of these shows and find an experience or character I’ve come across in my own personal life. That’s what makes these shows so great. That’s what makes being black so great. There’s no one way too it and I never suggested otherwise. You first accused me of monolithic thinking yet you’re the one that keeps engaging in This by denying the authenticity of a show like insecure for a show like Queen Sugar instead of seeing them for what they are which is different perspectives on the same experience within the same spectrum. I’m doing all of this without insulting your intelligence btw and it feels great.

Oh great, another paragraph that shows bad reading comprehension.

But it still shows that “they” won’t make a show as appealable as Friends with a non-white cast

I guess you really can’t lead a horse to water

Not enough neck rolls, finger snaps, sassy black women & ex-con brothers to sell it.

Crazy shows went from unironically doing it to ironically doing it

Your avi might be the goat black sitcom tbh, along with Bernie Mac Show

“People from a distance can’t tell who from who”