Black Envy/White Profits

Occasionally, I write about Black people in popular culture. While most academics dismiss pop culture, I have always felt that our consumption of it — how and what we consume — can be very instructive.

Before launching into this blog about how Black envy is turned into rage and rage is turned into white profits, I would like to first define a few terms. Black folk are human beings. We have the same emotions, desires, and heartbreaks as everybody else on the planet. However, and this a HOWEVER, Black folk tend to be monitored more closely by the media and denied the privacy to work out…