This past week, former actor/rapper/who knows Bow Wow basically said that he can’t relate to Black Civil Rights because he is mixed. One of his tweets was in response to someone telling him that he should care about the election.
*confused emoji* See? This is why no one calls you Shad, you don’t deserve that respect. He then when BACK to Twitter and said that everyone was twisting his words, even though we can see what he said from his own page.
Bow Wow even went as far as posting a mugshot of his father. The man in the picture is seen to be a light skinned person of color, not sure what exactly he is. That is fine, no one is saying he isn’t mixed. BUT, it is very well-known that his mother is a black woman and her ancestors were the one’s fighting for our right to vote.
Don’t get me wrong, I will never force anybody, especially a person of color, to vote because either way we’re screwed. That is definitely true in this year’s election, but anyway that isn’t the point. The point is Bow Wow is obviously mixed with confusion and self-hate. What do you mean “I don’t know what my ancestors was doing”? It is pretty well recorded in history what our ancestors did and went through, not even just for the right to vote.
Honestly, Bow Wow really let a lot of us down. Yes, we all made fun of him but we did not expect this type of mess from him. It got even worse when he posted the picture of his father to try and prove something.
“I’m mixed” … okay? Still mixed with black, still would appear to anyone else as a black male. It’s troubling because what if he’s had this mindset the whole time? What if he felt like he didn’t care about the Black Lives Matter movement because he’s mixed? What if he felt like he had no chance of being shot by a police officer for the color of his skin, because he’s mixed? More importantly, what if he teaches his daughter these same beliefs because she’s mixed? He really isn’t making the “mixed kid reputation” any better in everyone else’s eyes.
This is a sad case of another child star gone wrong, *side-eye stares at Raven*.
I would like to add a huge shout out to Black Entertainment Television (BET) for playing one of his old music videos and having “#WeLostMoss” at the bottom of the screen. A beautiful display of shade.
In the end, my honest reaction is… 
