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Black Celebrity Fashion Designer: Mugzy Mcfly
Black Celebrity Fashion Designer: Mugzy Mcfly
New York fashion designer and entrepreneur Jevaughn Williams, better known as Mugzy McFly, has made his childhood dream come true with Signed By McFly. Bronx-based fashion guru has worked with celebrities like Maino, Doja Cat and Post Malone and was chosen to enter the GRAMMY Awards this year. He owns pop-up shops to highlight BIPOC’s independent designers in the area of fashion and is a source…
I’ve been following Gazi Kodzo’s conversations on periscope and somehow that got me thinking on something that I refer to as black male exceptionalism–where a lot of black men, once they’ve reached a certain status in the black community or have a large following of black people, can do no wrong.
It’s something that’s happened with several black male celebrities–Bill Cosby being the most apparent example where tens of women came forward accusing him of rape, sexual assault and what have you for more than two decades–and multitudes of black people readily came to his defense. Black celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg openly defended him, Raven Simone refused to comment on the subject altogether, Felicia Rashad (I love her to death, but she failed me here) also defended him–not to mention the scores of people, famous and working class alike, defending him tooth and nail on social media.
It has me feeling some type of way that our black “role models” don’t come under fire for the scrutiny they often deserve.
While I call it black male exceptionalism, I can easily rationalize it as an intersection of multiple societal oppressions: the patriarchal overtones mixed with racism, sexism, colorism, and rape-culture intersecting to create this perfect storm that allows the wrongs done against black women to go completely unanswered when prestigious, wealthy and well-known black men commit them.
I feel like we need to address this.
