Where was these concerned women when black men were called no good, rapist, scrubs, dead beats, and told that if we weren't thugs we were gay, soft or bitches. And for the record many more black men were killed behind this, often sent to jail for crimes they didn't commit only because some salty hoe wanted her get back. What's equally troubling is they love throwing around big numbers (a million black women killed and raped) without ever being able to site their numbers. All lies to fit their narrative, that no matter if they are a crack fiend, the black women are the black queens, queens without a king or a kingdom!!!!
This is the type of coon thinking that led to the death of Malcolm X so I take that shit very seriously!!!!
About a year ago, my own biggest critique of Kevin was that it seemed a portion of his male audience used his presentation to have a blanket negative image of Black women.
But that really wasn't a critique of the man. It's not really his fault if certain ones of his watchers were not getting the nuance and were not seeing that almost all of his snark and cutting words were situational to the repetition of bullshit he was hearing. Kevin said what he said. It's up to his audience whether they half listened or whether they paid attention.
The caller was right in that Black women are marginalized in the greater society and often victimized. However she overblew things by saying "millions" of Black women are being pulled from cars, etc. I'm not sure what she was talking about nor am I sure she knew what all she was talking about nor whom the perpetrators were. But Kevin never advocated any kind of physical abuse of women. And if the perpetrators she was speaking of were cops or white supremacists, I don't endorse that kind of respectability politics- as if they haven't always treated our people like that anyway before there was a Kevin Samuels.
I've been reading these posts on social media from women celebrating his passing. Aside from being inhumane and immature, it feels like a kind of entitlement.
...The entitlement being that many Black women are not used to having to address the things that Kevin would address in terms of how THEY are seen from the other side of the mirror. There is a perception among many that somehow we as men don't have any feelings worth respecting, and so those women say whatever to us: micromanaging, criticizing us and "speaking their mind". And all of the shit is supposed to just bounce off of us. As men, we are supposed to just toughen up and take it. But if we turn around and make one observation, however mild, about where they are deficient, the same go ballistic or fall apart like snowflakes.
They simply are not used to a man speaking to them with the same matter of factness and frankness that many of them speak to us.
I'm not speaking of all women- just that particular segment. I know and love many mature, smart, secure Sistas that I'm honored to have in my life.
But for those cheering his death? They likely are the exact ones whom if they got out of their feelings and remove their fingers from their ears could benefit from the wisdom he gave.