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Nigerian-American. Bi, Black, FAT! She/Her. Creator of #TheKentTest. Author of Fat Off, Fat On (OUT NOW). You can reach me at https://t.co/y52vNGOKkL 🤙🏾

Aug 10, 2018, 6 tweets

Chiming in from my 32-hour drive from hell to confirm that Black male creatives become wildly insecure when a BW critic breathes in the direction of their project & they need to take up that misogynoir w/ their maker & not us & keep the same energy they would for a Susan critic.

Or even another critic of color, who surprise, is NOT Black.

And this isn’t limited to producers, directors, or writers either. Actors do this nonsensical, anti-Black woman shit too—as evidenced by the brouhaha that happened in my mentions last month w/ Colter (though those circumstances were slightly different).

Yes, this is a subtweet. And yes the people this applies to are probably looking rn.

I don’t care. Debate your moms.

I went to public high school, you cannot bully me LOL 😂

Niggas wanna flex #onhere for the bird knowing damn well they wouldn’t keep the same energy if my name was Clarissa Kent and I was paler. They know what those optics would have them looking like. But they do it to BW [critics] because everyone shits on us—so it’s “safe”.

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