Roda Osman & the Thin Purple Line
In September of 2023, a video of a woman goes viral. In it, she claims to have been assaulted by a brick-wielding black man for denying him her number. She continues to say that other black men in the area did nothing to stop the assault or give her justice in the situation by defending her honor in some way. Her face swelling while in a hospital gown, she takes to social media once again in tears confused as to why something this would happen to her...considering she has "never done anything" to deserve it. Black women heard her cry, rallied around her in solidarity, and raised $42,000 for her hospital bill and recovery. All the while screaming to the heavens that black men never protect black women, further inspiring the ever-growing ire towards the men of their community. Her name is Roda Osman, a classmate from the same school of falsehood as Jussie Smollett, Carlee Russell, and Yasmin Seweid because she's a swollen-faced liar.
Too many times now we've heard black men accused of crimes they didn't commit. Historically these accusations often lead to their death or imprisonment. So much so that a whole organization called The Innocence Project had to be created to help exonerate wrongfully imprisoned men. Such examples that come to mind are Emmitt Till and The Exonerated 5 (formerly the Central Park 5). This historical context has now been weaponized to an absurd degree that it is a favorited tactic among feminists and the subculture, the sisterhood. Roda is just the latest to employ this move for her selfish reasons.
THE STORY:
After some persistence of social media personality, CelebrID (a.k.a Daphne Sutton), an investigation was conducted into Osman's claims. part of that investigation led to them reviewing surveillance footage that showed Osman being the aggressor in an altercation with Olan Douglas who had a water bottle in his hand which police believe was responsible for the mark on Osman's face in retaliation to her smacking him. Upon further investigation, Osman has a history of assaulting men on camera for social media views. In addition, in 2020, she created another GoFundMe fundraiser for a similar story she told about being assaulted by a security guard and raised $4,800, further playing to people's sympathies but using terms dog whistling minority groups like single mothers, black women, and the Muslim community...even though she is a member of the LGBT crowd as a lesbian. Since the alleged incident in 2023, Roda has been seen in strip clubs, and on lavish trips with money donated to her for her "recovery" even recently seen in Jamaica on the run from a warrant issued on January 10th, 2024 for the charge of 3rd degree theft. She was scheduled to appear in court the next day but didn't show up. Osman turned herself into authorities on the 23rd of January, GoFundMe has banned her from any future fundraisers and has refunded all her donors their money. She is out on a $10,000 bond.
MY OPINION:
The Color Purple has black women messed up in the head, doesn't it? Here's the thing ladies: not every man is Mister, not every man is Ike Turner or Joe Jackson, and not every man is Nate (from the movie Set It Off). There are countless other examples, but the lens with which black women view black men is irreparably cracked. The fact that it is all too easy for black women to believe all negative narratives regarding black men is astounding. TMR has annotated ad nauseam the effects of propaganda as a tool or a weapon on the hearts and minds of people and how typically it is used to dehumanize a group in order to justify heinous acts done to them or create a bias that is accepted willingly without question. The negative image of black men was solidified in D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation film where he depicted black men as either useless or dangerous. Say nothing of the imagery on print during the time of slavery. This is the image that lives rent-free in the minds of white Americans and has been effective for centuries. They are apprehensive at best any time a black man is on the scene. From one damaging film to another, the torch has been passed on to another film that depicts men as either useless or dangerous: The Color Purple. This is now the rhetoric about black men that permeates through black women inherited from the white men who despise them as well.
What irritates me most is the weaponizing and misuse of Brother Malcolm's quote:
"The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman..."
People always stop at the part where he speaks on the unprotection of black women but refuse to acknowledge what came before it:
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? To such an extent you bleach, to get like the white man. Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don't want to be around each other? No... Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad does he teach hate, you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God made you.
That was the part of his speech aimed at black women and chastisement at that, yet no one quotes that part. It's amazing how people cherry-pick soundbites to bolster their narrative without giving proper due to context or finishing the thought in its entirety. This is probably the most egregious usage of that tactic, in my opinion, 2nd only to the Bible. The problem is that this perpetual victim mentality has made black women lose their collective identity. So much so that if they were to ever truly heal from whatever made them victims in the first place, they wouldn't recognize themselves. One can get so comfortable with their pain to the point where it becomes the norm. The problem comes when you omit the b-clause of his statement:
"The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. And as Muslims, the honorable Elijah Muhammed teaches us to respect, our women, and to protect our women. And the only time a Muslim gets real violent is when someone goes to molest his woman. We will kill you, for our women. I'm making it plain; yes, we will kill you for our women. We believe that if the white man, will do whatever is necessary, to see that his woman get respect and protection, then you and I will never be recognized as men. Until we stand up like men and pays the same penalty over the head of anyone, who puts his filthy hands out, to put it in the direction of our women."
Here's a revelation most women aren't ready to hear: THIS PART WAS NOT ABOUT YOU. Yes, you were mentioned here, but you were the preface, not the point; the set-up, not the payoff. This part of his speech was a chastisement to black men about their position in the community. Malcolm was pointing out how cheap our manhood was in comparison to other races of men, particularly white men. These words were not meant to serve as a tool to justify a woman's misbehavior and willingness to put herself in precarious situations. Just like in The Bodyguard, the protectee cannot dictate to the protector how they should be protected. Protection isn't always comfortable, it's often firm and strict. If black women do not SUBMIT to the protection of black men, it will always leave them open to an attack.
The 4th tenet of the Art of War is Weak points and Strong. One of the points mentioned in that tenant goes:
"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which you are undefended."
If there was ever a flaw worth pointing out in the psyche of black women it is groupthink. Anything that aligns with the rhetoric of the sistahood, they are absolutely blind to and therefore unguarded. Black women willingly supported Derrick Jaxn and his message only to find out that he's exactly the kind of man they rail against, they absorb everything Steve Harvey preaches even though he's been divorced TWICE and is currently being exposed as a comedy fraud to this day; and any woman who cries afoul at the hand of black men, black women immediately jump to the defense of without questioning the validity of the claim. I, for one, still have questions about the trial of Tory Lanez.
What do these examples all have in common? They reinforce your inherited bias against black men...and you PAY them for it. Making them richer while they enable you to wallow in your misery. The Greeks used this same tactic against the city of Troy and it's called a Trojan Horse. You unwittingly invite your enemy disguised as a gift into your home, only for them to destroy you from the inside. Black women's blindspot is the Sistahood and their negative point of view against black men which makes their pockets vulnerable to attack and in the end, they look foolish when the truth is exposed because now they have to double down in their "need to be right". God forbid if black women admit they were ever wrong about anything, the universe itself would implode.
We're [Black] Americans. We don't stop doing the wrong things because it's wrong, we keep doing the wrong things until it turns out right.
Roda Osman is out on a $10,000 bond and there are still many black women supporting and defending her despite all the evidence of fraud. It's instances like this that leave me with very little hope for us as a people in the future if calling a spade a spade is considered misogyny and calling a liar a liar is considered abuse...even if she's a woman. I've said this before and I'll say it a million more times: women shit. Once we take the flashbang effect out of the equation, we can finally implement correction and direction to a lost people and begin to move forward. I'm not going to hold my breath, because I know that this doesn't pass the smell test. It's passed time since justice was served for this assault on black men's image. The true meaning of the word would hit many black women in the face...like a ton of bricks.
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