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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:04pm
THANK YOU. Not enough folks remember/are aware of this.

Our memories are often far too short (read: selective) with regard to celebrities.
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  Gamora ThanosHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  8/18/15 4:11pm
  Not only that there is the “I don’t want to tear down a successful black man”, and that is what covered Cosby and what covers men of colour who abuse and exploit
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  MomsHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  8/18/15 4:18pm
  Yep, and thats why I bootlegged the shit out of it. Fuck the police, Dre. & Ice Cube.
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Max CherryDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:21pm
Well, I’m seeing the movie this afternoon, so I’ll avoid the article for spoiler alerts. I’ll read later.
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  benjaminalloverMax Cherry
  8/18/15 4:42pm
  I’m opposite. This piece was so much more fascinating and revealing than the movie would have been. You should certainly read it later.
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  Eugene Debs - BloggerMax Cherry
  8/18/15 4:58pm
  Eazy E dies. The Ice Cube sells out. Dre invents headphones! HA! Spoiled bitch!
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MizJenkinsDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:41pm
BOOM. Drop the mic, sis, you nailed it.

GIF

I respect many things about NWA’s legacy and the talent of its individual members, but it’s this kind of shit that exposes them as just your average, middle-aged rich dudes cashing in on some watered-down, distorted version of their former glory.

Frankly I’m not sure how Cube managed to retain any cred after Are We There Yet? but anyway, there it goes like a fart in the wind.

These negroes ain’t keeping shit real. Glad you called them on it.
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  billy-quizboyMizJenkins
  8/18/15 4:49pm
  I am as white as my avatar, so I’m not really familiar with the story of the movie. But I am a bit older than many people here, and I’m familiar with a lot of fake history in bio-pic movies.
  
  I’m glad this article was here, where I read things. I may well see the movie, but I’m not going to take it as gospel truth.
  
  (PS Additional stars would be awarded for the Key and Peele gif. Now I have to find that particular episode and watch it.)
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  IlluminaMizJenkins
  8/18/15 4:49pm
  Right. Not surprised she was blackballed. It on par for th course with stories like this. The abuser become the “victim” and the victim perpetrator.
  
  But I am shocked that F. Gary Gray was the cameraman for the incident that was supposedly the cause for her assault. Like WOW! It really explains alot.
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BobbySeriousDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:15pm
Very brave piece Dee. For what it’s worth, most white historical figures, including our founding fathers, are depicted with a healthy dose of historical revisionism because as you say, the truth is too ugly.
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  BrohaimBobbySerious
  8/18/15 4:22pm
  All you seem to do is go around this website apologizing for white people.
  
  Has it gotten you a single black friend yet?
  
  Just curious.
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  Laura Bush TilmanBobbySerious
  8/18/15 4:24pm
  Thomas. Jefferson.
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HypnoCatDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:46pm
People have accused me of holding onto the past; I’m not holding onto the past. I have a souvenir that I never wanted. The past holds onto me.

Great three sentences.
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  CatApostropheHypnoCat
  8/18/15 5:25pm
  Right? That part cut me to the quick, partly as an abuse survivor and partly ‘cause it’s just so frank.
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  Joshua "Dr. Science" GilbertHypnoCat
  8/18/15 6:51pm
  “Culturally, we feel the need to sanitize those who achieve great things in order to force the world to fit into the moral box we’ve been conditioned to create. We don’t want to believe that our heroes can be bastards. But bad or damaged people can do great and brilliant things.”
  
  -http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/…
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Cherith CutestoryDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:40pm
This is one of the best things I’ve read on Gawker. Thank you.
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  Norm CoreCherith Cutestory
  8/18/15 8:13pm
  “Dee Barnes is currently writing her memoir, Music, Myth, and Misogyny: Memoirs of a Female MC. She is looking for a publisher.”
  
  Anyone know any publishers I can give my money to? Heck, crowdfund it and I’d buy it immediately.
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  Cherith CutestoryNorm Core
  8/18/15 8:34pm
  Absolutely! Honestly, why wouldn’t anyone want to publish that though?
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OctoberSurpriseDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:20pm
I haven’t seen the movie yet, and I am ot quite convinced I will. Not because of any moral reluctance, mind you, its just I lived through the rise of NWA so I am pretty familiar with the genesis story, warts and all. But I think the attention that articles like this shine on the failures of the group as men and representatives of the black community are necessary and a counterbalance to what I imagine is a pretty self serving narrative as far as the move is concerned. The movie relies on the good will of the remaining group members to tell their story so lets be real for a moment. No screen time was ever going to be spent showing the women NWA beat and abused. Dre wasn’t going to risk his post rap career stability and money for authenticity and gritty scenes of him smashing women. Same with Cube. This is a vanity project, and nothing more. It doesn’t mean Cube, Dre, etc can’t be held accountable in the court of public opinion, but this idea that the movie omitted stuff that never was on the table to begin with is silly.
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  spillingredwineallovermyselfOctoberSurprise
  8/18/15 5:32pm
  I agree with your statement, except the last line, only because I’m pretty sure that’s not the point of this article—more her point is that they are no positive instances of women (because she, of course, knows they’re not going to portray the shit that really happened)—because there’s a completely lack of respect of women, period. And that’s the truly upsetting part, even though they worked with and had success thanks to some women in their lives.
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  Ophelia1OctoberSurprise
  8/19/15 5:34am
  “Silly”??????????
  Just blindly accept what should never be acceptable, OctoberSurprise. This attitude is a support of the established institutions that will, with time, move from racism and class oppression to sexism and class oppression as its choice oppressive flavor of the day.
  From what I’ve just learned about in regards to Rap/Straight Outta..and the raw realities of life they sought to acknowledge head first, ‘silly’ is a dismissive word. You make the misogyny acceptable.
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benjaminalloverDee Barnes
8/18/15 4:55pm
This was an outstanding read, in both how you correct your erasure from their story, but also how you put their story in the proper cultural context;

There is a direct connection between the oppression of black men and the violence perpetrated by black men against black women. It is a cycle of victimization and reenactment of violence that is rooted in racism and perpetuated by patriarchy.

I wonder what type of film about this history you would have written.
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  cats a'silenced by white liberalsbenjaminallover
  8/19/15 7:01pm
  black women are oppressed as well and yet...
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  benjaminallovercats a'silenced by white liberals
  8/19/15 7:17pm
  I’m not- and Barnes is not- excusing any gendered violence in talking about its roots, I hope it goes without saying. I don’t think race has much to do with gendered or sexualized violence in communities so much as poverty or disempowerment of women does.
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Chris ThompsonDee Barnes
8/19/15 8:55am
This is great. I look forward to reading the memoir.
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thwarted666Dee Barnes
8/18/15 4:24pm
Glad to finally get some context on this (lots of places seem to be sweeping it under the rug) and I hope Dee finds a publisher.
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  IDM3thwarted666
  8/18/15 6:43pm
  If she doesn't she could self-publish it. I'd buy a copy no matter what.
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  thwarted666IDM3
  8/18/15 7:05pm
  Yeah, same here. Really interested to see what else she has to say.
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