*Actor Lakeith Stanfield is calling out some of the popular Black media blogs for being “anti-Black.”
“It’s a fact that a lot of these platforms are usually or tend to be feeding grounds for negative reinforcement toward BLACK ‘nonconformists.’ They bolster faux vanity and hold a white supremacists scope over Black men and women often highlighting negative attributes and downplaying mind expanding ones,” Stanfield wrote on Instagram, blavity.com reports.
In a picture accompanying his post, the actor slammed The Shade Room, Lipstick Alley, The Breakfast Club, and WorldStar specifically for being “anti-Black.”
“They serve as bottomless coward consumption pits and digital, audio, or otherwise slave mentality museums. @ all you want,” he added at the end of his post — see below.
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Many actors and artists agreed with the statement and commented on the post.
“When they do have forward thinking or progressive guests they tend to make them feel like weirdos or poke fun at their views. Most of the time they never get the platform to begin with. Many of the content they spew does not do a good job of showing the full spectrum of blackness and leaves a lot of us “weirdos” under-represented. We just choose not to say anything because we’ll be called haters” Artist Gianni Lee wrote in the comments on Stanfield’s post.
HBO’s “Euphoria” star Algee Smith, model Damaris Lewis, singer Miguel and actors Jason Mitchell and Ashton Sanders also liked the post or commented in agreement.
Do you read any of the blogs Lakeith called out? Do you agree that they push anti-black content? Sound off in the comments below.
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