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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Currently watching the reunion and can’t get over how bad they have painted Big Boy Chris. They have truly tried to make him look like a monster.  He came out trying to apologize and Gizelle acted as if he was being overly aggressive, further perpetuating the violent black man image so many black men have to deal with.
 Gizelle was so messy and is really the one who causes all the drama on the entire show. I am glad that Monique apologized. I wish she had done so without adding why she was triggered. Sometimes an apology without the extra is all a person needs. Otherwise it can feel disingenuous. 
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+1000. I used to like Gizelle when I thought she was basically a good and happy person, and funny. But I feel like she is one of those bitter people who feels she 'needs a man' and yet knows her man is a loser. She tells the same jokes and makes the same fake accusations. I was shocked no one else pointed out she was perpetuating an image by being fake-scared of Chris. [b]Her girls are a lot darker than her so she needs to watch how she treats people if she wants to get into the heaven she pretends to believe in[/b].[/quote] What does this even mean? Please do better.[/quote]

Not the person who posted this but I believe she is speaking to the light skinned privilege. I’m lighter skinned and unfortunately can get a pass that my darker  relatives couldn’t. I think the poster is saying that [b]she needs to be mindful that she is doing the exact same thing that she wouldn’t want someone to do her girls.[/b] I could be wrong. Hopefully the PP will come back and explain.[/quote]

PP here and exactly this. The optics of 'needing security' even as the reunion filmed and you could see how far back (and how uninterested in fighting) her 'security' was- was a dirty, transparent prop that underlines colorism and does not make her look actually concerned for her safety, or intelligent or supportive of the black community. She knows what she has done and why she thinks she needs security. Candiace and Monique doesn't have security but she does? In that flashback,playing dumb when Chris asked her who the baby looked like, then pretending to wonder why to Robin is so offensive. "Why would he ask that?" my left nut. He asked it to rub in the fact that everyone knew what she was trying to set up. The fact that her plan flopped is her only plausible deniability that there was no plan. She's dirty. And dumb. And falling into a stereotype. She needs to do better.[/quote]

Gizelle initially got the security because of Monique (she had it at Karen’s intervention with Monique) not Chris.  It’s not some commentary on black men.  It’s a commentary on Monique, who beat up someone the same dark color as her.  This has nothing to do with colorism from Gizelle.[/quote]

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