everyday i get on the internet and randoms are finding a new way to try and shit on black female creators i've been following for literal YEARS ! like omg maybe we do need to gatekeep our faves...
When I said she was spiraling I was not kidding. The weight of power dynamics is not lost on me. Amy knew she couldn’t go up against Bernice king so she choose a small battle to start. Asia has a smaller following then her and is newer to the industry then she is. Amy was harassing her.
This is a few months old, but I haven't seen Asia Jackson’s complete response to Amy Schumer’s Islamophobic tirade on Tumblr yet, so I thought I would post it here.
oh a little postscript about my floor night, in my section i was actually quite surprised by the number of people over 60 i was seeing on the floor. couples, just older ladies, just older guys, grandparents and grandkids, and i was reminded of way back in 2006 when taylor released her first album, there’s a morning show here in japan that had a longstanding news anchor at the helm for many years named Ogura-san, and he had this music corner every weekday morning where he would share an artist that he likes, and i remember he was a big supporter of taylor from her debut. always had great things to say about her. i’ve been living in japan for essentially the entirety of taylor’s career and my first introduction to her was via this news program. anyway he’s like maybe 75 now and retired from television but, as i was sitting waiting for the show to start and looking around at all these dapper people in their 60s and 70s i was reminded of how there really has been great support for taylor from japan from the very start. she touched on it in one of her speeches, just said a simple “thank you for supporting me from the beginning” but it’s really true and i really think that meant a lot to a lot of people in the audience, some you might not expect. sort of warmed my heart.