![]() ![]() They do not speak for all of us, yet unfortunately they are viewed as a representation of Black women. ![]() Yes, those are Black women in his videos that willingly consented to being objectified. ![]() Should we only care about his sister and not the other millions of Black girls and women that are being objectified and hyper-sexualized?īefore you go there, let me say this. For some reason, he can’t see that yes this is connected. The same bodies that he was seeking bone marrow from. Those students weren’t attacking his bone marrow drive efforts, they wanted him to confront the public spectacle that he created off of Black women’s bodies. I’m surprised ( I don’t know why) that after all this time Nelly still doesn’t get it. He believes that they should have left the issue of his misogyny alone and just focused on bone marrow. However, he recently appeared on the Huffpost Live show where he basically blamed the students of Spelman for the death of his sister. Over the past few years, the dust has settled and Nelly has slowly reemerged in the spotlight. His sister also lost her battle with Leukemia. It tarnished Nelly’s career and he hasn’t recovered since. However, the Spelman students did host a bone marrow drive of their own. He pulled his funding from the bone marrow drive and it was a huge media fiasco. They invited him to speak on the issue and have an open discussion about it. But his plans were foiled when a group of Spelman students confronted him on the issues of misogyny and the hyper-sexualization of Black women in his music videos. About ten years ago, Nelly was set to launch a bone marrow drive for his sister at Spelman College. Hip Hop artist Nelly has reignited a 10 year old firestorm about his notorious Tip Drill video. “It mus be that a** cause it ain’t your face. ![]()
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