Lena Waithe is getting called out for her use of black trauma

[hewontgo]

TW:Murder, rape, infanticide, violence.

[Review]
Ain’t no fucking way. pic.twitter.com/SE9nLGunOQ
- Zig Zaddy Kane (@yayforzig) April 9, 2021
A review detailed the black trauma portrayed on Lena Waithe's latest project 'Them

Comments

[grandmascorner]

Wans’t she also developing a show with Kid Fury? I can’t find any recent updates on that

[pikapika217]

Lie AGAIN

[grandmascorner]

I agree 😕 I also don’t like how they keep rooting for Nicki, i feel like they bring her up every week even when there’s no big news on her. I find myself skipping through Hot Topics lately

[pikapika217]

They definitely don't follow celeb gossip details as closely as we do on ONTD. The last they brought up Nicki IIRC it was the one week about her baby and the next week about how her husband's victim said they were doing things to cover that up & something else she was being falted for.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if being super plugged into all the celeb gossip makes it harder to enjoy things in general. Like, people are liking that new SZA/Doja song and all I can see is 'dr. luke writing credit' you know??

[spellgabbana]

sometimes i have to stop myself from saying certain people are trash because i don't feel like explaining all the backstory about why to people that don't have a clue and likely won't care in the end anyway. though i did make it known that i didn't want to hear any michael jackson when my lead was playing music in our department and he respected that.

[grandmascorner]

They brought her up again very recently when Tiffany Haddish said something about Nicki not treating people with respect, and Crissle said something like “did she deny you a picture or something LOL” They just kept defending her and that Nicki has the right to be an asshole when she feels like it. It was just a weird story to highlight cause they didn't even know what happened between them. It was just disappointing

[ponyboy]

honestly i dipped out of the show years ago over behavior like this

[kiran59]

I love the read but similarly I’ve always been disgusted with their continue fandom of
Michael Jackson and the way they discussed Wade Robson.

[cymbelinefire]

NGL, I stopped listening to The Read years ago because of the Nicki stanning.

[nutmegdealer]

i'm just annoyed that he stopped updating link's ig.

[pikapika217]

No clue either but I do know he's a writer on one of Issa's new projects - someone posted a screenshot of its writers room zoom and he was in it. Crissle tried to bring it up in a recent ep and he ducked it a LOT LOL

[adb7]

Never heard anything after the announcement.

[daijouboo]

I read that her production company was adapting the book “Such a Fun Age.”

[dadeepish]

He mentions writing (as in for a job) so I think it’s still in development.

I’m frustrated with him about LW. He didn’t mention the sexual harassment stuff on her show last year, they criticize Black trauma as the primary subject of Black “entertainment” products but don’t mention her role in that...I get it, she’s the boss but it’s still frustrating.