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Sher's avatar

Love it!!!! I’m with Boom all the way cause he honest. We know who he is. That CLOWN, Jamal “pimp daddy” Bryant is a walking lie. Fuk him. People wake up. If you read and believe the bible then you know Satan all up in the church. Satan is the best preacher the world has ever seen. Jamal is working for the devil, in other words, himself. If you think JB pimping stick is a preacher, I got done cryptocurrency I’d like to sell you. Fist in the air to Boom and the young Lady who spoke it!!!!!!

Todd S. Jenkins's avatar

Thank you for this. As a white Southerner-by-birth, I can't speak to the Black cultural issues you address except to regret that I came up in (and thankfully escaped) terribly racist surroundings. I've often been accused of being "performative" without any guidance as to becoming a better ally. From your post it seems the Black community has much the same conflict.

Side note: I had never heard of the Boo Hag until it was the center of an episode of "Will Trent". That sent me down a fascinating rabbit hole of Gullah Geechee culture.

Dr. B's avatar

So here is the problem I have with this you are giving praise to a gangsta for checking a pastor who you question because he fathered a child out of wedlock. This isn’t progressive and the Boom guy isn’t correct. In the streets gangstas get at other gangstas period. He can’t be held to a code he doesn’t live by. We question and so call check members of our community more than the oppressor. I don’t give a damn about who is sleezy when it comes to fighting our common enemy. You just picked a side there are no winners here just losers and another opportunity to strategize and make demands was LOST

Michael Harriot's avatar

Good point...

Except for this part:

In the video, Baltimore activist Davon Neverdon, also known as PFK Boom, confronts Empowerment Temple Pastor Jamal Bryant during an event organized by the family of Tyrone West, who died in 2013 when a traffic stop turned violent.

And this part

While Bryant’s T-shirt asserts his status as the community’s “Guardian Angel,” Neverdon accuses Bryant of silence on police violence while “dodging and disrespecting the West family.”

And this part

"when the two young men—Baltimore residents and victims of police brutality themselves—tried to meet him, he shunned them for the television cameras."

Except for the part where you're wrong, you're 100% correct.