Hi Nicole, Y,
Nicole, OF COURSE this isn’t about “copyright” laws and other BS – its a cowardly way of silencing somebody whom they couldn’t deal with otherwise. Again, notice that throughout the entire exchange btw you and that knucklehead White Knight “Pro”, that he never once, addressed what I actually said in my response piece to Viera’s “Dumb It Down”. Not. Once. He can tapdance around it all he wants, but that is the central issue.

Also: notice that I wrote an article on my blog about Jill Scott, you can look it up in the Google cache for yourself – she too writes for Essence magazine. Have I heard from her people, threatening me with lawsuits and the like? To ask the question, is to answer it. Same deal with Marc Lamont Hill, another very well known young Black face in a high place – in fact, not only did he read my critique of him, but we had a very nice Twitter confab to boot – no “diva” moments or anything like that.

Please do not get it twisted that this little episode will be the last of The Obsidian Files. Far from it, in fact, I’ve got plans in the works to make it bigger and better, by going “pro” myself. It’s about time that there was a space for Brothas to speak up about a conversation that Sistas like Ms. Viera has had a stranglehold in the public square on for far too long. What originally started out as an enthused hobby, has now become a real mission for me.

It’s ON – just like you said. “Pro” won’t know what hit him…

O.