What if the politic of Blackqueerness is to dispossess itself of the proper, which is to say the appropriate and the “responsible”, which is to say place and/in state? It wasn’t until after I saw his TMZ interview where he stated that slavery was a choice that I realized that “old Kanye” is dead and gone and what we have now is a shell of a man. If what poet-philosopher Fred Moten reminds us is true, if “we get together to fight,” can we see within all the fighting, the “fighting to maintain our capacity to get together”? We agree. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. @VanLathan, Van Lathan deserves the key to Wakanda pic.twitter.com/PJq4Jtq8Oe, Y'all. Lathan worked for TMZ since the inception of the program and gained notoriety when he vigorously pushed back against Kanye West while on the air in May 2018 when Kanye …
"I actually don't think you're thinking anything," Lathan said. Even now at 35-years-old, I have a playlist dedicated to his music not only from that album but “Late Registration” and “Graduation”. (CNN) Van Lathan just became a champion of Kanye West critics and an example, for some, of the need for racial diversity in the workplace. We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice. “Sin is Negro as virtue is white,” writes Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. But like so many fans, Lathan felt like he already had a relationship with West. pic.twitter.com/ii6X4Y2lwK. The women had to pass a paper bag test to even get the so-called ‘Black love.’ This is why I’m [a] firm believer in Black women opening their options and dating the right person for them regardless of race.”, Whoever runs #BlackLoveDoc’s Twitter account, probably Gayle King, replied: “Hey Ella! There were 2,066 cases discovered yesterday as well, which in comparison to the 2,675 found the day before seems like progress–seems. But don’t count Lathan among those looking forward to any new albums from West. Sign up to our mailing list to receive Content for the Culture directly to your inbox! Any speech that is used to weaken them and make them culpable for the wretched and putrid circumstances, I don’t feel like I could really tolerate that.”. You could have sat back in that room of your majority non-black colleagues and pretended not to hear any of this but instead, you spoke out. It’s like we’re mentally in prison.”. ", TMZ employee fires back at Kanye West comments, Kanye West just said 400 years of slavery was a choice, Kanye West: 5 takeaways from rapper's Charlamagne interview, Kanye West explains what exactly he likes about Trump, They also stirred discussion about the need for diversity. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Everything I have felt towards this man throughout the years you spoke out on. Still there is the very real risk of acquiring (and dying by) COVID. pic.twitter.com/fOlLsQVOwR, Thanks for the repost Icon. All Rights Reserved. Amidst the ongoing War on AIDS, Blackqueer lifeworlds–crowded nightclubs, dilapidated bathhouses, un/protected penetrations—become articulations of summers refusing to be stolen, bodies refusing to behave, backs going unbent. This discursive-material conceptualization–Blackqueer systematic vulnerability to disease/death conterminous with disease/death as the universal sign of Blackqueerness—rebuffs performative concealment or “proper posture”. Black queer men–the demographic majority of Atlanta Black Pride, I must add–make up for 37% of new diagnoses among all queer men in the United States.