Gonna start yelling “I STUDY SORKIN!!!” in public places like the AppleCare lady when I’m feeling indignant https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💀" title="Skull" aria-label="Emoji: Skull">

Folx are tweeting waaay funnier AND thoughtful takes than I probably will, but I’m interested in why many of these new Black creatives assume that a preference or reverence for Black art means that you’re somehow not “learned” or “worldly” when it comes to film & art in general.

It’s very....arrogant. And in a way that is not only *unearned*, but completely ignores the history and work that had to take place so your Black ass could even have a movie *screened* in a theater in the first place.

There’s that and the fact that YT creatives don’t receive this kind of scrutiny for preference for YT work or canon, even if they’ve never seen, say, a Black-led or produced film in their entire life and couldn’t name a single one of it was a matter of life and death.

Also....”canon” when it comes to art in this country is YT by default. The omission of marginalized people from that doesn’t mean our work isn’t worldly or “avant-garde”. It means that motherfuckers are racist LMAO

Like do you know how vast the African diaspora is for you to be acting like there’s not an ARRAY of different types of art and cinema to be found????? Mugu! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">

IDK man. We all got internalized shit, but at some point you gotta unpack your baggage & stop pretending that watching Tarantino sneak 2784449 versions of the word “nigger” into his latest movie makes you better than the rest of us ñîçk gürrš who apparently never watched TV https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Smiling face with smiling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with smiling eyes">