Black History Month Is Cancelled!

You know what, Black History Month is cancelled. This entire month I have been hyped as I always am in February for my fellow chocolate folks to get the shine and praise we deserve all year. But this year? You people have gone too god damn far!  Yeah that's right. Don't believe me? Allow me to run down the ways in which the universe won't let me be happy.

*Cancellation of High Noon

Anyone who reads this or listens to the Chocolate Puma Podcast (Find it wherever you subscribe to your podcasts!) knows that I am a huge fan of the work Bomani Jones does at ESPN. He speaks for a largely unrepresented segment of sports fans. 

Yet this week, on the day his co-host's wife had their first child no less, it was announced that High Noon was cancelled. It was refreshing to see two guys who, like myself use stats to make sports arguments, yet still had the skill to handle things such as the death of Kobe Bryant with the respect and nuance. Instead look forward to the show getting replaced by some dudebro who will yell about guys needing to shut and play ball instead of having the deep conversations that sports is capable of having but we don't because people can't seem to handle that.

*Deontay Wilder getting KNOCKED OUT

I mentioned this on the podcast this week, but come on Wilder. You had me out here, touting the Bronze Bomber. He was gonna, in the year of our Lord 2020, go out there and put a performance on for the ancestors. 

This is so dope, and he lost so bad.

Then he walked to the ring in this bad ass black, sparkling, costume that made it looked like he just stepped out of My Hero Academia or some shit and I knew it was about to go DOWN. And it went down alright. A thorough ass kicking by someone who I had previously, loudly, and let go to the notes...ah yes incorrectly characterized as overrated. As I previously stated in the podcast, no one is gonna be mad if you lose to a 6'9 gypsy who is fast as hell but you can't get thoroughly out classed and then blame the loss on the costume you voluntarily wore to the ring. 

*Gayle King, Snoop Dogg, Kobe and Oprah

I'm gonna keep this rant short. The main point is Gayle King deserved none of the vitriol she received for asking Lisa Leslie in a heavily edited clip about Kobe Bryant's rape case. None. She isn't, nor is Oprah out to get black men out the paint. I have seen so many, "well what about Harvey Weinstein" ass deflections in the last month it's ridiculous. There have been numerous articles, documentaries and people speaking out on Weinstein so just because some ashy ass dude with questionable spelling hasn't heard of it, is not indicative of a massive conspiracy against black men. The criminal in this case is Harvey Weinstein, blaming the women he knew is fucking stupid. And Snoop? Yeah what better way to honor the fallen Kobe, who in the last few years was an outspoken advocate for women in sports than to disrespect a journalist and call her a "dog faced bitch" for asking a question about a significant event in the man's life. Good job Calvin. 

*Trump and his "Blacks."

And now the shit cherry on the sundae that inspired this whole damn post. Earlier today I saw a post about an unscheduled event at the White House. Like a moron, I said well let me click on this and get pissed off. And pissed off I was! I saw ya'll president sitting there with all the blacks he could find. There was a who's who of coonery!

I wanna call all these people something that would make my mama mad.

There was Candace Owens, Diamond and Silk and a whole gaggle of pastors who have been on his books from the get go. A few called him the best president since....that's right Lincoln! Because when you think black people you think Lincoln. Some of these jackwagons even had the unmitigated gall to call that tangerine hued ass clown "the first black president." Despite the face we had a black man in office for 8 whole ass years! Then to top it off, he has these charlatans, these con artists of blackness all pray for him and he sits there, smugly looking in the camera as if to say, "these are my blacks." 

So we got that going for us. You know what, I'm gonna take March and make that Black History Month II: Electric Boogalo. That's right I'm Columbus-ing the next month! We gonna keep doing this shit till we got it right! 

Your move America.