All In The Videos, Dancing.
Essence Magazine posted a picture and a certain segment of Black Twitter did their thing. They hated on the photo and some of the weirdos even took the time to crop Diddy out of the picture only showing his three beautiful princes. Nothing wrong with the centering of these beauty’s, but that’s not what the original picture is. the same women and men who believe a productive day is to hop on Twitter and shit on Black men, sharing stories of how their father’s weren’t around and how not okay that is think it is cute, funny and perfectly fine to remix a pic removing a Black dad.
This Aint About Centering.
I know, you know, they know, we all know had this been a white man with his interracial daughter’s these same weirdos wouldn’t be cropping pics, they’d be gawking. Keep these three princesses in the picture and replace it with a white man, any old white man. A white man not with far less net-worth than them, the comments would be “this man (this white man) stood up when Diddy (a black man) stood down, and this is why we say Black men aint shit.”
Perspective.
I look at this picture and I think it is pretty obvious who is the center of attention, and it is not Diddy. First thing I think is very noticeable is the hair of all of these girl’s, but the one standing in the middle caught my eye first. Then it was her sister to the left of her, then the sister to the right of her, which I’m assuming is the oldest based on her looking older than the other two girls. After noticing the hair styles, I notice the dresses and how elegant they are. These beautiful girls outshine their father in this picture. I’m no photographer, but I’m willing to guess that the photographer and Diddy understood that his stance within this photo was to be out of the way so that his daughter’s get the bulk (or all) of the well deserved attention.
Perspective is a huge thing because how one perceives this picture is all based on their perception. You have those, such as myself who view this photo as a praise to three young black girls who will grow to be black women, if already aren’t adults. These three girls/women just happen to be Sean P. Diddy Combs’ daughters. You can also turn a positive into a negative and get on Diddy for doing something I think it is pretty clear he’s not doing in this photo. Diddy has a past of being the attention whore, but let’s judge a man for what he is doing in the present day. Let us also not throw preconceived notions on a man because we’re pro-black until it comes to black men.
