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"Too Black for Broadway", A Message From the Greatest Entertainer You'll Never Know


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Paul Mooney once did an interview entitled "Too Black for Hollywood". It is a funny piece in the usual Mooney style, but it also touches on how his style of comedy was never really accepted by the vast majority of people. Mooney was able to make a career for himself and lived comfortably for most of his life, but this was largely because he remained true to his roots, never really opting to spend large amounts of money outside of the black community. He lived in black neighborhoods and spent his money their his whole life. He also went into great detail about how most black entertainers simply do not do this, how the first thing minority entertainers do is abandon the communities they grow up in. These minority entertainers boast about how they came from nothing and made themselves into something. The "nothing" they refer to coming from is a just another cheap shot directed at poor people. In the minds of minority celebrities, not getting paid millions of dollars means that you are a loser; they are just like Donald Trump in that sense and it should come as no surprise that so many of them were willing to abandon poor people of color all because Trump threw them some damn tax breaks. I will never forget that. I will not allow people to forget that these fake ass "pro black" celebrities sucked the dick of a white man so they could make more money, and leave people like me to rot in poverty. I have no love for traitors. These minority celebrities are always the first ones to hop on every movement created by black people, not because they agree with the movement, but because they want to profit off of it. And minority celebrities have profited greatly from the struggle of poor minorities who look just like them and have the same talent as them, but just were not chose by white producers. Because these minority celebrities are chosen by white establishment racists, nothing they say can really be trusted. You have no way of knowing how sincere any of these people are when they say something on twitter or youtube. They could just be telling a lies. If you go by their actions, you will see that these people have done nothing apart from making phony speeches about equality, while allowing the same racist casting in their industry to continue. But they were perfectly okay with benefiting financially from the the George Flyod death, which received widespread political coverage. There were all kinds of interviews with rich black people and other minority entertainers when Flyod was murdered, all of a sudden these rich people who did everything they could to get away from the black community, living in white neighborhoods like those found in Beverly Hills and the Midwest, remembered where they came from. But up until that point all they did was make fun of people like me and deny us jobs just like their white owners. The reason this changed was not, as they like to claim, the violent death of George Flyod; the real reason they "cared" about black people again was because they wanted even more money than they already had. At the time of Flyod's death and the early protesting that occurred, white America was mostly on the side of Black Lives Matter. And wherever there are white people, you will find minority celebrities trying to make money. Why? Because the people who bring you minority entertainment are mostly white, about eighty-three percent of theater producers and writers are white and white actors compose sixty-six percent of every cast. A bunch of minority entertainers, all of them wealthy, fired off a letter to the theatre community about its lack of people of color onstage about a year ago today. Nothing has came of that letter; nothing has changed. No one is really fighting for people like me in the entertainment industry, aside from myself that is. No celebrity can understand the pain rejection and despair. They have their wealth and fame to always fall back on. Spare me the act; none of y'all really care about us.  

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