When you are reading that book, here's the thing, there is this juxtaposition between, this is why I think the class, the gender, the homophobia, all of that is so important is because evidence creating this juxtaposition between all the things that make up black humanity and black experience at the same time that this tiny little derivative of that is being celebrated and he's very

careful to create yet another juxtaposition between when Nina May Jenkins and Monk. Monk has a job. He's making

probably 70, 80,000 dollars a year. He's set. He's never chosen to back, you know, down on his principles prior to this.

It's only with the gun to his head of his mother having dementia,

needing this care, being that situation that he is willing to even entertain selling

out, and then he goes down this whole trip. Jenkins doesn't have any of that.

She's just after the praise.

So Monk is in a very different situation

where he accepts this.

He writes this book against all of this messy,

complex blackness is that little tiny derivative.

And when you translate to the film, if you take out all of that variety in the black experience, all that messiness, but you just show white folks

celebrating some version we lives in the ghetto, it's missing the heart of that book and celebrating fuck which is the book in which there is

homophobia ableism rape colorism all of those. I think that you're right.

That is why I think there is something both satirical

and subversive that that's happening in this film.

What erasure demonstrates is that there is a thin slice

or what is trying to say is that there's a thin slice of blackness that has a market appeal.

And while there are changes in the marketplace that have happened since the 20 years, 20 plus years when this book was written and now in this post

George Floyd, both woke era, it still is the case I would argue that there is a certain

kind of blackness that has marketability and purchase in the marketplace. And so it does seem to me that what

Cora Jefferson is doing is that he is exploiting that reality. He's able to get this movie made and this movie is superficially when you watch the trailers and things I thought it was going to be overwhelmingly about

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