Judas is a single person not a "they" and the bigoted phrase thats been passed around for years isnt "the romans killed jesus".
Jamie is a professional comedian and thus fully knows how to effecfivly communicate. I find it really hard to believe he didnt know how this would be read. Not to mention he never even mentions the black communities history with the Judas narrative or how that would apply to his deleted post. Like I said seriously sus.
And I'm telling you as a black man who grew up in a black community how it is used.
"They" is regularly used to convey a single nameless person. In the south, the east, the west, the north.
And I said "if you want to get technical with it", meaning outside of how it's used colloquially and being anal about "who killed Jesus" because it truly wasn't the Jews.
Yes, I know bigots regularly say stupid shit like "the Jews killed Jesus" but this isn't that.
And why would he mention anything about what black people mean by our common colloquialisms? I understood what he meant. MOST black people do! YOU are bringing a meaning to it that isn't there.
This happens all the time when an out group tries to infer their own meaning into what the in group said. There are colloquialisms used by Asians that I may or may not understand what it means TO THEM. I can ask and get clarity. I don't get to infer my own takes into what THAT person in the in group means by what they said.
I'm trying to bring context into this... If something is commonly used in a way to mean "it be your own that stabs you in your back" AKA #FakeFriends ... Then that's what it means. Nothing else.
You can say "it reads this way to me" but when it's explained what it means to the in group of which Foxx belongs you don't get say "I don't care, what I said is what he means"
Maybe the colloquialism can be reworded... But until that time, the meaning is what I explained it as.
Yes, he's a comedian with a grasp of communication... Maybe it wasn't to YOU he's communicating that to? Even on a public stage, you can say something that only your in group will understand... Regardless if others won't.
I mean NO offense to you or anyone as I'm trying to stay on logic and explain on an even keel.
