The Black "Meh's" have all been been consumed, in one way or another, in the first few days following that Will Smith incident at the Oscars, but like Jemele Hill pointed out in The Atlantic, There Are Two America's Debating Will and Chris Rock.
Hell, there might be 3 different America's exploring this in our conversation.
Quotable Notables:
"What I'm noticing is for Black women, this really, hits some like trauma points and some wounds and like need to be witnessed and like need for safety. And I feel like another conversation has been created as a result of it that, um, it's just fascinating and it's so much pain out there of not being seen, not being heard, not being witnessed." - Eric Fleming
"I think the first conversation that we need to have that I still don't think everybody has heard is that Black women have been out here unprotected and Black women have been traumatized in a lot of different ways, by the way, folks within our own community do not protect us. So first we need to all agree and understand that Black women do need to be protected period. And then we can talk about how and what does that look like." - Luna Malbroux
"I think what Will put on line is his brand. And in some ways that's not big stakes, but his, his brand is so tied with a Black acceptability. And that is one of those things that I think we're kind of ready to let go of." - Glenn Carerre
"How do we make protecting Black women about Black women and not about our honor?" - Glenn Carerre
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