So Roland isn't a sellout?
When Nate Parker was getting attacked by white supremacists and their coon and bedwench minions, you are supposed to do a show calling them out.You aren't supposed to bring on the same people attacking him like all the other cac stations.
You supposed to stay on code and expose white supremacist tactics for what they are for, not bring on dissenting voices to pile on Parker.What's the point of TvOne being a "Black" station if they doing what the white stations are doing?
We aren't even gonna bring up his fuck shit with Hillary and Stephen A.Smith and him being scared to say he identified as a Black man when questioned by a white supremacist.
No Roland isn't a sellout.
How are you going to say what he is "supposed" to do with
his show and who he is supposed to bring on? The white stations were not having a diversity of Black voices moderated by a Black man discussing that issue.
All sides were heard in Roland's discussion - including the side that questioned the timing of these allegations being brought back up. The Sistas attacking Nate were even shut down by the Brother who took away their mantle of victimhood by pointing out that many Black men are raped too - but keep silent because of being afraid of labeling.
What was on that show was the same debate that Black folks were having on social media around Nate Parker. That's what shows like Roland's do. They talk about what is topical. Yes, those two Black women he had on were annoying as hell and wouldn't hardly let anyone else get a word in. But what was the end result?
At the end of the show when Roland asked everyone individually, if people should go see Birth of A Nation, each participant said YES and that they themselves would see it.
Let me also say that everyone does not subscribe to Neely Fuller's code. It is a concept that
some choose to follow. It is not the only viable methodology for being Black and navigating within a white supremacist system. I personally find it ridiculous not to give any negative critique to the words and actions of certain Black people. Then that means that the only thing said about them should be neutral or positive. That's severely flawed. Dialogue between Black folks from myriad viewpoints is a good thing.
Furthermore, folks can't just invoke the code when it suits them as a hammer against one person they feel violates it, but then when the individual whom they like violates it, turn a blind eye. That is hypocrisy.
There is a fundamental difference between Roland saying - with no name-calling -that he thought Tariq was wrong to call a Black woman a Negro Bed Wench and on the other side Tariq using that opposition as an opportunity to go on a sustained campaign of name-calling and ridicule. That's childish, divisive, bridge-burning shit. Simple disagree reement with comments made in a tweet is not tantamount to disrespect. Roland did not name call Tariq. Tariq could have just as easily ignored the comment, explained why he called her an NBW, disagreed with Roland, asked for a dialogue or any number of other options that would have left it at simply a difference of opinion between two prominent Brothers.
Instead he lied and created a new term on the spot claiming he was calling the woman a Non-American Black Woman.

..And then proceeded to savage Roland over the course of a number of podcasts and label him as a coon and a buffoon... And then his boy, Boyce Watkins jumped into the middle of it too (I was more disappointed by that).
And no, I don't think his doing a line dance with Hillary qualifies the dude as a coon. His career and body of work should be considered. No one we've mentioned in your and my exchange (with the possible exception of Stephen A. Smith) deserves that designation.
I can't speak on this thing involving a white supremacist and Roland and Stephen A. - because I didn't see it. Could you drop a link?