Daniel Caesar Says How He Really Feels: Week's Winners & Losers

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This was a week of problematic crooners, well-utilized eggs, and scary, sexy, cool fashion.

This week’s winners below, then hit the next page to find out who took the L!

Winners

1. Egg boy

When far-right politicians spew Islamophobic ignorance out their mouth, one might try to be civil in addressing their ridiculousness.

But sometimes an egg to the head is the only appropriate response, especially when 50 PEOPLE have just died in a grotesque massacre.

The Australian right-wing senator Fraser Anning got the works when 17-year-old Will Connolly, a.k.a. Egg Boy, smashed a hard egg on his head at a Conservative National Party meeting in Melbourne.

According to The Cut, Anning is known for his Islamophobic views and his sentiments came out in the most appalling way after the shooting at the Christchurch mosques last Friday that left 50 people dead and 50 injured.

The attacks were carried out by an Australian-born White nationalist but instead of blaming this guy, Anning went on to blame Muslims.

Yes, M U S L I M S!

In a statement, he wrote:

“The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.”

Again, it wasn’t the white supremacist killer’s fault, it was the Muslims, who pray at mosques like the ones that got attacked last week.

Anning is lucky all he got was an egg to the head.

He was in the middle of talking to the press at the CNP meeting on Saturday when Egg Boy executed one big wallop into Anning’s cranium.

Let’s observe below, and feel free to rewind over and over again.

The TECHNIQUE.

The EXECUTION.

Young Connolly is a winner.

Luckily, he made it out the situation safely, and he was arrested but released without charge, according to The Cut.  

On his Twitter page (which has since been deleted for unknown reasons), Connolly wrote:

“Let me inform you all guys, Muslims are not terrorists and terrorism has no religion. All those who consider Muslims a terrorist community have empty heads like Anning.”

Hero.

2. Lupita Nyong’o

*Sigh*

Lupita, Lupita, Lupita.

Why must you destroy us so mercilessly.

This week, Nyong’o went on press runs for the highly anticipated movie Us, which she stars in with fellow Yale alumni Winston Duke. 

And while Us is surely going to be the most talked about movie of the year, Lupita almost stole the spotlight with red carpet and video appearances to live by.

First, she went on the Ellen show and couldn’t decide between polka dots and stripes, so she was like eff it, I’m going to wear them both, and all was well in the world.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu-Yw1JhZGE/

Then, she ushered in care-free Black girl spirits and showed up to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with yellow eyes…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvLBFICBOzo/

Finally, for a red carpet screening, some un-worldly being came to her, no doubt from the future, and whispering one word in her ear…

Spikes.

And it was so.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvO59lyBwxY/

Oh, did I mention she raps too…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvRlMNphESV/

Care-free Queen.

Losers

Daniel Caesar

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Rising R&B singer Daniel Caesar really showed his a$$ this week, and it could’ve put a damper on his career.

Caesar is known for his soulful singing and intimate approach to music, causing him to gain a notable following amongst R&B lovers and Black music connoisseurs.

So you can imagine the hurt many people felt when he made an Instagram live video saying Black folks are “too sensitive” and are too “mean” to White people.

He made the statement in defense of YesJulz of all people, a White media personality who came after Karen Civil and Scottie Beam, also media personalities, for allegedly not supporting her in the hip hop industry. After YesJulz received backlash for taking aim at the two Black women, Mr. Caesar felt the need to defend her:

“Why are we being so mean to White people right now? That’s a serious question. Why is that we’re allowed to be rude and disrespectful to everybody else and when anyone returns any type of energy to us…that’s not equality.”

When people on IG live challenged Caesar on this whole Black people are being “mean to white people” notion, Caesar responded in the video:

“I see what you’re saying that White people have been mean to us in the past, what are you gonna do about that? Tell me what you’re gonna do about that? …Are we winning right now as a culture? Are we popular in society? We’re not. And you can’t win the game by choosing to not accept the winning team’s strategy. You have to acknowledge their strategy and build a strategy on top of that.”

So yup…

He came with AAALLL the fallacies.

Apparently, White people are the winning team to Daniel…

The same team that enslaved Black people, promoted Jim Crow laws, lynched, destroyed entire communities, implemented housing discrimination, carried out unjust criminal justice processes, cheated Black artists out of money, appropriated culture for profit, systematically kept Black people out of electoral politics, voted for Donald Trump, killed unarmed Black teens, colonized Black and Brown countries, displaced Black neighborhoods, and more?

That White people team????

Twitter was swift and merciless against Mr. Caesar…

https://twitter.com/Gov_Jo_204/status/1108230496822194176

https://twitter.com/obiquawn/status/1108428185518198786

https://twitter.com/YourMusicWhore/status/1108456330900193280

Despite the dragging, there were some people who were ready to exercise patience with Daniel. Activist DeRay Mckesson, in particular, said he talked to Daniel, and he reported to Twitter that he’s “learning & growing re: understanding *systemic* racism & has more work to do. & he has begun to do that work.”

Well…

You hit us back Daniel if and when you’ve done that work.

Until then…

Big L for you this week.