Jack Harlow: "I got Blacker"

[LGAte 477]

12 minutes ago, REALITY said:

I think most people understand what he was trying to say. The problem is that saying something like "I got Blacker," in pretty much any context, is problematic and weird. He can still love and appreciate Black culture & music, but he definitely should've chosen his words more carefully.

I 100% agree and I 100% can hold the same two beliefs simultaneously:

1. Jack Harlow should definitely work on his phrasing (especially for an MC) in interviews if he wants to show respect to Black people and Black music.

2. If you actually go watch the interview instead of being a Controversy Exploiter (like Pop Crave is being here), you can clearly see that Pop Crave's way of posting this is intentionally misleading and he did not mean it the way it is being presented here, and that is a valid side note that should be taken seriously before we start throwing accusations around and letting the internet do what it does worst: make false narratives. Dude was literally trying to compliment black people. His intent is not thinking he is magically becoming a black person or hijacking their culture. 

 

Do people understand nuance at all in 2026? Or are they just looking to rage bait everyone into being angry all the time?

Edited 20 hours ago by LGAte

[27monster27 15,132]

He actually was saying something really nice, but the way he phrased that ending... 

[LGAte 477]

2 minutes ago, 27monster27 said:

He actually was saying something really nice, but the way he phrased that ending... 

Yeah I really don't like how even this user on GagaDaily phrased the article because it's misleading. 

Journalists have been doing this too much lately and people fall for it but IT'S ONLY TO GET CLICKS AND LIKES. It's only to bait you! These people do not give a **** about Black rights or the cultural commentary. They just know this will get interaction!

In journalism it's actually called "Contextomy" or "Quote Mining" and it is a tactic they use to build rage which build engagement. (I'm in Marketing so I see it alllllll the time). Basically it is a cheap way to use black and brown people to get attention to an account because they know they will piss off black, brown, or left white people. They selectively quote someone while leaving out surrounding context so the meaning changes or becomes misleading. The quote technically exists, but the surrounding explanation that changes the meaning is removed. This tactic has been used in politics, media, and journalism for decades. One big perpetrator of this is Fox News and it is how they have basically made a huge sect of the population buy into rage-based far right politics. But certain publications on the left realize it works both ways so they are doing it to minority communities now, too!

Don't fall for it!

And honestly the OP should be ashamed for titling/misleading people like this. 

[Borislshere 53,188]

Where would the world be without black people. Honestly. 
BUT what a stupid Thing to say.so many black artists are still fighting to have a spot, we don’t need jack trying to steal a seat at the table.  Furthermore, what is “blacker”? I’m black and listen to so many genres and love so many black artists in different genres. Pop? Rock? R&B? hip-hop? Like 

[Debithius 6,015]

28 minutes ago, LGAte said:

I 100% agree and I 100% can hold the same two beliefs simultaneously:

1. Jack Harlow should definitely work on his phrasing (especially for an MC) in interviews if he wants to show respect to Black people and Black music.

2. If you actually go watch the interview instead of being a Controversy Exploiter (like Pop Crave is being here), you can clearly see that Pop Crave's way of posting this is intentionally misleading and he did not mean it the way it is being presented here, and that is a valid side note that should be taken seriously before we start throwing accusations around and letting the internet do what it does worst: make false narratives. Dude was literally trying to compliment black people. His intent is not thinking he is magically becoming a black person or hijacking their culture. 

 

Do people understand nuance at all in 2026? Or are they just looking to rage bait everyone into being angry all the time?

I agree with this but you'd be dragged for even saying this on GGD or Twitter. The majority of people getting offended are just practising selective outrage. I never take any of these brain dead posts seriously.

[LGAte 477]

1 minute ago, Debithius said:

I agree with this but you'd be dragged for even saying this on GGD or Twitter. The majority of people getting offended are just practising selective outrage. I never take any of these brain dead posts seriously.

One of the reasons we are losing on the left is because republicans who are dumb and don't know they are socialists are fairly critiquing leftists who are still practicing capitalism by trying to compete with eachother via outsmarting eachother on the internet when us on the left should be finding crossover of solidarity and points of unity. 

Tragically, most of us on the left are so virtue signaled and easily outraged we miss what the actual terrible things the right is doing beneath our very eyes: winning and destroying. 

Maturing is realizing that there are capitalists on the internet who claim to be on the left that also seek to exploit the marginalized, even though they are really good at signaling that they are "with you".

They aren't. They are in it for themselves. And it is why every company, organization, and influencer pulls out on the marginalized the minute they lose money or clout.

We need to get better at understanding what people's intentions are- not asking them to say everything perfectly 100% of the time. Because quite frankly, we all have been miseducated and abused by the system. And if we don't wake up to that fast, it's going to be very very difficult for any of us to have freedoms that we still have any remnant left of.

[Zombiecat 17,560]

by injection? 

[REALITY 79,129]

44 minutes ago, LGAte said:

I 100% agree and I 100% can hold the same two beliefs simultaneously:

1. Jack Harlow should definitely work on his phrasing (especially for an MC) in interviews if he wants to show respect to Black people and Black music.

2. If you actually go watch the interview instead of being a Controversy Exploiter (like Pop Crave is being here), you can clearly see that Pop Crave's way of posting this is intentionally misleading and he did not mean it the way it is being presented here, and that is a valid side note that should be taken seriously before we start throwing accusations around and letting the internet do what it does worst: make false narratives. Dude was literally trying to compliment black people. His intent is not thinking he is magically becoming a black person or hijacking their culture. 

 

Do people understand nuance at all in 2026? Or are they just looking to rage bait everyone into being angry all the time?

Me being a "controversy exploiter"?? Ok, girl

Frankly, I don't think Pop Crave is being exploitative. If they were, they would've just ran with the "I got Blacker" quote and stopped there. Their tweet actually gave quite a bit of context to the quote. We get what he's saying. It's not rocket science.

The issue is that the quote itself is crazy, and he should've known better to phrase it like that. Like you, I'm acknowledging both sides of it. He just should've been smarter about the way he phrased it. That's it.

[Agunimon 326]

It's so interesting how people advocate for black culture and retaining it and specifying that it is a unique thing, and when people acknowledge that like he is doing that, it becomes problematic. I don't really understand it.

[weed 77,056]

46 minutes ago, LGAte said:

And honestly the OP should be ashamed for titling/misleading people like this. 

[PunkTheFunk 125,522]

In the sense that-

[LGAte 477]

28 minutes ago, Agunimon said:

It's so interesting how people advocate for black culture and retaining it and specifying that it is a unique thing, and when people acknowledge that like he is doing that, it becomes problematic. I don't really understand it.

Yeah.....it becomes more about "catching someone saying something problematic" and less about finding ways for us to understand eachother so that black culture is actually protected.

He literally acknowledged the truth about it being a black genre and he literally said he didn't want to rely on being white. 

Edited 19 hours ago by LGAte

[LGAte 477]

1 hour ago, REALITY said:

I think most people understand what he was trying to say. The problem is that saying something like "I got Blacker," in pretty much any context, is problematic and weird. He can still love and appreciate Black culture & music, but he definitely should've chosen his words more carefully.

I'm really not trying to be argumentative here but if you cannot acknowledge that how you have this titled is misleading and intended to be attention-grabbing in a specific type of way - I don't know what to say. 

 

I guess we can just pretend. 

[vanna shintuyu 11,509]

1 hour ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

He just meant he got BLACKED

Jack Harlow: "ya know, I'm black by injection"

 

[Kayi 2,965]

1 hour ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

He just meant he got BLACKED

Best explaination of the thread