Gilbert Arenas Proves the Sunken Place Has Plenty Good Room

This nuh. Former pro-baller Gilbert Arenas recently spewed his hateful ignorance all over Instagram and was summarily (and rightly) dragged for it. Suggested Reading The Ever-Growing List of Lawsuits Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Take a Look Inside Michael Jordan’s Former Chicago-Area Mansion, Which You Can Now Airbnb For This Heart-Clutching Price Celebrities Known to the…

This nuh. Former pro-baller Gilbert Arenas recently spewed his hateful ignorance all over Instagram and was summarily (and rightly) dragged for it.

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The latest in a long line of โ€œcelebritiesโ€ that peddle in daily misogynoir (yeah, Iโ€™m looking at you, French Montana, Tyrese), Arenas took to social media to disparage dark-skinned women, saying they are โ€œewwww.โ€

https://twitter.com/Lips4daze/status/853110927088123906

In a since-deleted post, Arenas wrote, โ€œNot to be funny, but can you name a beautiful black woman on the outside โ€ฆ not brown skinned โ€ฆ but Tyrese black. โ€ฆWhen you have African features black then u have number#1 lupita nโ€™yongo and sheโ€™s cute when the lights are off. Second you have (Ajuma Naseyana ) Sorry but ewwwwwโ€ฆ so the black beautiful women you boost up is technically light skinned or brown skinned.โ€

The coldest part is that, as one commenter noted, his daughter is a beautiful black girl herself.

https://twitter.com/jdlady_/status/852898045205389312

Hence the draggin:

https://twitter.com/visadklline/status/853092859993612288
https://twitter.com/shenicewitit/status/853072319857688578
https://twitter.com/anyidea/status/853023711351291904

โ€œNo Chill Gilโ€ must have gotten some religion (and his sister Christy Arenas mustโ€™ve got in that ass), because he posted a rambling mea culpa soon after entitled, โ€œDear Black Girl, You Donโ€™t Have to Be Mixed to Be Beautiful.โ€

The rantlike apology said in part that he acted like a โ€œCOON,โ€ and yet he still managed to diss Lupita one more time.

On the real-real, though, Arenas is obviously articulating what many men in the NBA live (see the show and real-life โ€œbasketball wivesโ€ for proof).

In the words of a wise man I once knew: The sickness is deep.

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