Hartbroken 💔
Recently, Kevin Hart had a roast on Netflix. A live star-studded event. It's here where Kevin created a moment meant for sarcasm, and playful reprimand and turned it into a shaming ritual.
Where Black folks were demeaned for their skin tone, features, slavery, lynchings etc. A veritable buffet of racist fodder. An all-you-can-eat platter of regressive racism cloaked as "jokes."
A sadistic display, cosigned by Kevin Hart. Providing a stage for white comedians to use humor as a pretext for incendiary remarks that were purely injurious with no comedic effect.
Shock value rhetoric, where they were granted dispensation. A "hall pass" to disrespect Black people without interruption. Why? Because Kevin invited mostly white comedians to insult Black people for entertainment. With all white writers writing the jokes.
Kevin's pulse for the culture has faded, long gone are the days when it felt like we were watching our "cousin nem" on TV. No. Now it's a tapping dancing puppet collecting coins in exchange for selling out.
Kat Williams addressed him correctly. Kevin doesn't like the N-word (No), as there's nothing he won't say yes to get a dollar. Even if that means embracing the degradation of George Floyd by a white comedian.
Kevin's heart has been out of rhythm with the culture, and he's been flatlining ever since.