(The News With SKD) Diversity or Distraction? Woke or Wack? Lets Talk.

I’ve been looking at media the last few weeks, YouTube, Instagram, the news outlets, print media and there has been this weird balkanization of media between those that think they are the spokesperson for whatever cause they think deserves attention and those too afraid to speak honestly for fear of retribution from the first group. "Woke", which according to Wikipedia is defined as; “As a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression "stay woke", whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues.” Yeah.

I’ve watched the celebration of mediocre movies that were praised simply because they had women behind the camera, had a majority Black cast, or in the case of the Academy Award winning movie Parasite being praised as though “Crazy Rich Asians” wasn’t extremely popular months earlier, or the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon didn’t win Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography at the 2001 Academy Awards.

Least we do not mention the open hostility towards White men, including Brie ‘Captain Marvel’ Larson’s "I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn’t made for him! I want to know what it meant to women of color, biracial women, to teen women of color.” Considering that it was more than likely Anglo men that financed the movie, and that many of Anglo men have children with non-Anglo women, that comment didn’t prevent that movie form bombing at the office.

Lets Talk About It.