this because I commented under the photoshop theory and said, “I’m not buying it.” I went on to talk about my history in model management, the laws surrounding minors in the industry, and how his mom was likely sitting in the room and didn’t care.
Basically, I put a note on my forehead that gave social media the OK to attack me for not buying into conspiracies that lasted for 24 hours until dun dun dunnnnnnnn the next day when the mom said, “I was sitting right there and you need to get over it.” That’s right people, no conspiracy theory here, keep it moving…
The story is STILL just as messed up as before (if not more), but I saved a lot of energy not trying to create, feed into, or making conspiracy theories work for what had happened.
3. Frivolously Calling for Boycotts: Over the weekend I received two calls for boycotts. One was against Netflix and the other against Walmart. I won’t get into the whole Netflix Mo’Nique battle here, but I do have thoughts on that. The Walmart boycott stemmed from a video of a woman walking down the hair care aisle of her local Walmart filming all of the black hair care products that were locked up in glass display boxes. Audibly disturbed by what she found she goes on to talk about how it’s unacceptable that only the Black products are locked up and she won’t be buying anything.
The caption to the video that hit my Facebook was “Pitiful. Don’t give them your money is all I can say.” and all I could think was ummm…I think that was the initial problem. The reason why things get locked away in glass boxes is not that they’re for a certain demographic, it’s because they’re being stolen. If I, Walmart, have a product for sale and am not making money from it because it keeps magically disappearing then I, Walmart, am going to do something different. Lock them up.
Boycotting started in 1880 when tenants decided to