Menelek Lumumba

Don't care. George Floyd was not a thought leader and he was actively doing drugs behind the wheel of a car and died because of the crimes he had committed and callousness of police thereafter Charlie Kirk was a political leader at a scheduled and permitted college event who was intentionally shot in the neck to stop his ability to speak There are lines. The problem with cancel culture was not that people got offended, it was that the lines of offense were so insane that no one knew where to step. Ten year old jokes resurfaced, fired Your dad said a slur in the 80s, Fired Tell your staff what words not to use, fired "Canceling" is fine when the line is understood and reasonable Mocking George Floyds death and saying that a drug abusing criminal was in hell? No one cares Saying you feel good because a political leader was assassinated for speaking his opinions? People care The lines here are easily understood. Trump crossed the line with Mueller and I called him out for it. I have always maintained its sad that George Floyd died I dont care that people made AI memes of George and Charlie dancing Dave Chappelle crossed the line when he said my friend being killed made him feel better. Id rather live in a world where you can mock drug abusing criminals instead of political activists either way Id argue beyond this we must mock Floyd and defend Charlie A society that venerates a man who held a pregnant woman at knifepoint, does hard drugs while driving, uses counterfeit money, and resists arrest... Or a society that venerates a family man who speaks to people to change their minds. I know which I want to live in.

lol in middle school they was teaching me french not how to fight. I was learning Shakespeare not squabbling. Boys can spot fake J’s but can’t solve for X, make it make sense 😭😭

I hate being that guy but I guess I am that guy now. I love KD’s sentiment here and fully agree with his point. But when did it become so okay to curse in public like this? Can’t we do better?

Chappelle said “fuck Bill Maher,” in his special, even though Maher defended the comedians who performed in Saudi Arabia as progress. Maher did joke that if Dave was really freer there than in America as he claimed, he should try doing his Muhammad material. Obviously, that touched a sore spot. Dave ended up swinging at the entire cloud of criticism surrounding the festival while using Maher who had defended his going as a punching bag. Marc Maron imagined Theo Von interviewing Hitler, a clear attack on Theo for humanizing Trump. But Trump had already been welcomed onto Saturday Night Live and Fallon. Don’t remember that part in his special. Theo also publicly said that he was willing to have Kamala on, so portraying the podcast as inherently fascist propaganda requires ignoring relevant context and believing Harris’ campaign lies that they weren’t offered to go on. The Hitler bit may work as comedy, but the moral indictment underneath it is swinging at a ghost. Chelsea Handler attacked Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe for supposedly going to Saudi Arabia, even though Shane publicly declined and Tony wasn’t there. That isn’t criticism, it’s condemnation based on a false premise. Comedians talking shit about other comedians is tradition. Comedians appointing themselves moral authorities over other comedians, claiming ownership of goodness, and distorting reality to make the prosecution work, is something different. They’ve become trapped in the same digital culture war they’re supposed to be able to see through: flattening people into symbols, omitting inconvenient facts and swinging at ghosts. Thats delusional troll shit. The joke is no longer exposing the distortion. The joke is serving it.

The film festival circuit is broken because of the horror nerds. These dopamine chasers now inflict their limbic system on every film, cheering for lizard brain human suffering. Combine that with one sided political gatekeeping, a filmmaker on a festival podium is like a town square Inquisitor - aiming to vivisect as entertainment under the guise of moral superiority. It's why naked old women humiliation rituals like The Substance are hyped up into Greatest Movie Ever territory while doing their circuit, attracting a combination of prosthetic fetishists, convoluted feminism, and theater laugh exhibitionists. Meanwhile, the movie that seems to work the best at TIFF this year is I PLAY ROCKY - a studio movie from Amazon that is not an indie needing distribution at an Independent Film Festival. While the independent filmmakers must placate gore junkies who perverted the culture into medieval public executions, the studios are free to make emotionally cathartic material. The irony is their movie is about a making movies when movies were good, and also an independent movie about a white guy that that triumphs over a scary black guy. Try to get that into TIFF in 2026. It's hard to get an honest audience out of these things anymore. The gore junkies perverted it with the aura of a public execution with the veneer of respectability. Everyone's lying.

Meteor Man is a bad movie. The Black community has a hard time admitting that because it was historically important for Black superheroes and became a beloved staple in Black households. That’s understandable. But at some point, y’all have to separate cultural significance from actual quality, because treating them like the same thing makes your critical judgment look questionable.

Hollywood is so terrified of offending 0.00001% of the population that they destroyed all vision/art/storytelling. The entire industry consists of insufferable, virtue signaling, HOA karens. 99% of what they pump out is absolute trash for stupid NPCs. If someone "checks the boxes" matters more than talent.

Black men who earned their Oscars. Sidney Poitier Denzel Washington Jamie Foxx Forrest Whitaker Will Smith Black who won DEI Oscars Michael B. Jordan Sinners was hot garbage and Jordan's acting was mid at best.

Jesse Jackson is a cautionary tale about the dangers of pursuing political power. Politics turned a Christian minister into a supporter of abortion, same-sex marriage, feminism, racial idolatry.

Stop spreading the lie that whites molest kids and blacks don’t when 3 out of 4 black women claim they were sexually assaulted before the age of 18. The difference is when blacks do it no one cares to do anything. Telling this lie keeps the cycle going and the abuse hidden. If u want to get back at whites that’s fine but lying and saying they abuse kids and blacks don’t keeps black abusers active and their abuse hidden and their victims voiceless!

Music is not universal. 50% of it is musical composition, and the other 50% is lyrics. If you don't speak any English, Nas isn't the greatest lyricist of all time. All you'll hear is jibberish over interesting beats. You're not experiencing the whole song. Just like when you listen to the greatest Chinese lyricist of all time. The same went when I watched Bad Bunny's Half Time show. It looked great, the beats were interesting, but I didn't know a single song or understand anything he was saying. And he's a lyricist, not someone who mostly focuses on melodies - so he clearly had something important to say. I looked around, and all the non-Spanish-speaking people in the party were experiencing the same thing. And if you're being honest with yourself instead of being fake-progressive, you agree with me.

Blacks weren’t made slaves because people didn’t like their race, blacks were made slaves because they take to subjugation like a fish to water! Even blacks in America claim whites are so bad yet still beg whites for jobs, still beg to live with whites and beg for whites to find them attractive! If whites were as bad as blacks say they are then we would never want to date them, live near them or work for them. As a matter of fact we would literally treat them like the Palestinians treat the Israelis! We would be an insurgency and want our get back but we just want a check! We won’t even leave America nor go to war with whites. So stop the fake internet outrage and armchair revolutionary talk. Yall love and envy whites and wouldn’t know what to do without them!

Edward Norton says he took every penny he made from Red Dragon (2002) to finance this film.

Creators should LOVE Ai. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative. It allows creators to become exponentially more creative. Creative iteration that used to take hours , days or weeks, can happen in minutes. The different routes you wanted to take but didn’t have the money or skill to do. Now you can do. The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero. If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI. 99 % of content fails. With AI the cost and time it takes to experience and learn from those failures drop like a rock. The people who should HATE AI are those that try to control distribution and the creative process because they are the ones that control platforms and tools. It’s all going to change. Only this time it won’t take decades like it did with streaming.