The Color Purple: A Black American Catharsis
(Editorial wrote in conjunction w/now-deleted YouTube video) Happy belated New Year everyone! Guess what? It’s February — Black History Month. Where have you been Pop Culture Connections? Why the absence? You’re right, it has been quiet here on the channel, hasn’t it? My first video of the year was delayed due to a plethora of events in the news cycle that certainly kept all of us engrossed, plus a family member’s passing and subsequent funeral, and each time I began writing I would hit a wall each and every time so bear with me as I try to parse out my feelings and thoughts here. January alone started with a bang instead of a whimper. Sigh, we’re only two months into the new year and a lot of us are ready to press the reset button, aren’t we? These past two months alone have been tumultuous for the Black community who have witnessed or experienced attacks, violations, assaults, or our deaths on various social media feeds. And it’s always the anniversary of a Black person’s untimely demise.
This is why people log off or completely abandon their Twitters, Facebooks, and Instagrams all together. I won’t recount all of the stories thus far — this year in their grim and sometimes gory detail but I will…
