![]() ![]() The makers of it would be the toast of our society – kind of like the makers of Empire.įor the best part of the last six weeks it has been the bestselling documentary in the world – beating the new documentary by Michael Moore, the new documentary on OJ Simpson as well as the classic documentary on Muhammed Ali. You would have read about its success everywhere – kind of like how you read about Empire. ![]() hugely successful and white-owned) organisation it would have been acknowledged as such. If it was made, marketed and distributed by some mainstream (i.e. ![]() Why would any serious write or journalist work for them after that? It made it look like this is merely a hobby. Censoring the article demonstrates that Blavity is not a serious and committed professional black journalism outfit. If Blavity had to bow to Twitter pressure they should’ve done so with dignity and integrity by – at the most - publishing a rebuttal article to the Hidden Colours piece by one of its critics. It is absolutely disgraceful that this is what has become of parts of the international black media. The editor of Blavity then stated on Twitter that writing and publishing the article was a ‘mistake’. Following a few hot air tweets about the maker of Hidden Colours, Blavity crumbled and removed the article. Blavity published an article on the wildly successful Hidden Colors films (more on which to come). Doing so in relation to the black community is treacherous.Īn issue involving Blavity, a black interest website, recently crystallised this. And, as we know, words are beyond cheap – they’re free.ĭancing to every social media fart whilst ignoring the truly special things in society is pretty much long-term editorial suicide (I would like to hope anyway). Putting it into context: when something trends on Twitter all that is happening is that more than enough people, usually the unemployable and their dear friends the perpetual career student union activist, are writing a particular word or phrase. Of course social media brings some interesting things to light but often it is just air. I truly don’t understand and I certainly don’t respect this concept. WE LIVE in a rather silly age in which things that trend on Twitter are almost automatically deemed news and worthy of critical discussion. SUCCESS: Tariq Nasheed, the man behind the success of the Hidden Colours series ![]()
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