00:00Welcome back.
00:07We are all obsessed with social media.
00:10Can we agree on that?
00:11Yes.
00:11But it's hard work keeping up with all the buzz, the latest trends.
00:15So if you've got FOMO, well, we've got you covered.
00:18This is Social Feed with Essence.
00:20Yes, I'm so excited about this.
00:24Joining us today is Essence Magazine's director of social media,
00:27Charisma DeBerry, and she's ready to spell the tea.
00:32Yes.
00:32Hey, Charisma.
00:34Hey, ladies.
00:35OK, up first, let's get right to it.
00:37Miss Robbie from Sweetie Pies, whom we all love, what's the latest?
00:41Oh, my goodness.
00:43So Miss Robbie, her son, Tim Norman, who we know from the show,
00:47Welcome to Sweetie Pies, on OWN, he was arrested for allegedly
00:52scheming to put a murder-for-hire plot on his nephew, Andre.
00:57So Andre was murdered, unfortunately, in St. Louis, and it's said that Tim put the whole
01:06thing together for a $450,000 life insurance policy.
01:11Oh, my God.
01:12But get this.
01:14He never even got the money.
01:16Why?
01:17He didn't get the money because the insurance company felt that something fishy was going on,
01:21and he attempted to get the money over five times.
01:24But now, two years after this all went down, Miss Robbie is speaking out, and she's saying
01:30that she's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
01:32She doesn't know what happened, and she's just praying that her son is innocent.
01:36But for right now, she gonna stick beside him.
01:39Wow.
01:40Wow, that is just tragic.
01:42They've been on this show.
01:43Wow.
01:44The mother and the son have both come on our show before.
01:47This is scary.
01:48This is Dateline, y'all.
01:49Like, this is crazy.
01:50Yeah.
01:51When they were on The Real, she was suing him for $20 million because she thought that
01:56he was possibly scamming her.
01:58Okay, this story has layers to it.
02:03All right, well, another story that's blowing up right now is about Givenchy.
02:07What's the scoop on this?
02:09Okay, so Givenchy, just like other luxury retailers, have found themselves in the court
02:14of public opinion after they've created what appears to be a noose silver necklace that
02:21they sent a model down the runway for in their spring 2022 collection.
02:26Now, what would a noose be doing in high fashion?
02:30So a lot of people are feeling like this is outrage marketing, where they do something,
02:35where they know that's gonna get people talking, even though they're offending a lot of people.
02:40Specifically, a lot of Black people on Black Twitter are saying, why are you doing this?
02:45You know what you're doing, and it's coming for us, and we don't like it.
02:49Wow.
02:50Yeah, this is crazy.
02:51I mean, I feel like every time something like this comes out, it's so controversial.
02:55Are the designers doing it just for clickbait, just so we can talk about it?
02:59Like, why sell something that you know can be really offensive to a certain group?
03:04Cuz it doesn't matter to them.
03:05And sadly, we have these conversations, they do a little something, and we go right back to purchasing their stuff.
03:13I don't.
03:14I'm saying as a community, I think a lot of people, they don't get reprimanded the way I think they should.
03:18Exactly.
03:19I don't even know how.
03:20Like, it doesn't feel like the repercussions are ever big enough that it hurts their wallet at all.
03:25No, cuz we still go out and buy it.
03:27Absolutely, and a lot of people are noting that this keeps happening when things that are particularly offensive to Black people.
03:34Yes.
03:35Because they don't seem to get a lot of consequences when it happens to Black people.
03:39Right.
03:40And this noose down the runway after what we've seen another noose down the runway two seasons ago and the big backlash, it almost seems that they knew exactly what would happen.
03:50Absolutely, and then Balenciaga recently had the sagging pants, so it's a continued thing that these designers are doing.
03:56All right, now I've been waiting to hear the scoop on this one.
03:59Give us the deets on the Sage Steel backlash.
04:03Oh, my goodness.
04:04So, you know, ladies, sometimes we may think something, but we have to learn to keep it inside, and this is the case with Sage Steel.
04:12So she went on to a podcast and she had some not so pleasant things to say about President Barack Obama and his family.
04:20She spoke about his decision to check Black on his boxes, and as a biracial woman, she decides that she checks both.
04:29So she took it up with him about that and said that she thinks that it's particularly interesting that he's choosing Black when his white mother and white grandparents raised him and his father was nowhere to be found.
04:42So as you can imagine, people were not feeling that.
04:46Yeah, that's not her place to decide how he identifies at all.
04:49Exactly.
04:50Absolutely.
04:51I mean, that's ridiculous.
04:52Well, she's been saying a lot of stuff.
04:54Yeah, she has.
04:55Lately, and so-
04:56Do you think it's for attention?
04:57No, that's how she really feels.
04:59She's been saying this kind of stuff for a long time, but now-
05:01I didn't know her name until today.
05:03Well, because you don't watch sports like I watch sports, but, you know, Charisma, it's being reported that ESPN is,
05:11is, you know, responding to some of the things that she says, and there are reportedly some actions that's gonna turn out because of what she's doing and what she's saying.
05:20Not okay.
05:21I mean, as a biracial person, it is your choice on how you want to identify, but you cannot try to make someone else feel guilty because,
05:30apparently, when President Barack Obama looks in the mirror, he sees a Black man.
05:34Right.
05:35If it's not what you see when you look in the mirror, then that's something that, you know, that's your choice, but that's obviously what he sees.
05:41So, yes.
05:42And remember, it used to be a time when you had one ounce of black blood.
05:46It was the one drop rule.
05:47The one drop rule.
05:48The one drop rule.
05:49Whatever.
05:50Yeah.
05:51Right.
05:52Go on, Jeannie.
05:53I agree.
05:54All right.
05:55Now, in the world of social media, the drama is heating up.
05:56Facebook is under a lot of fire right now.
05:57So, tell us about it, Charisma.
05:58Yes.
05:59So, Frances Hagen, she is a whistleblower.
06:02Life too short.
06:03She has blown the top off of Facebook.
06:07She's a former employee who says that Facebook prioritized their coins over the best interest of the public.
06:14She says that they know that their algorithm prioritizes volatile comments and hateful speech and misinformation,
06:22and yet they let it go on because they know that that's how they're going to continue to get engagement,
06:28which translates to dollars, which translates to Mark Zuckerberg having $117 billion, but I'm just saying.
06:36So, Frances has blown the lid off, and she's actually testified on Congress now about the things that she's found
06:44because it seems like Facebook could be in a lot of trouble and that there could be some regulations coming soon.
06:50And I think that that had something to do with that little five-hour blackout that happened recently.
06:58I do, too.
06:59Yeah, that's worth hearing.
07:00I can't imagine that this girl didn't sign an NDA, though.
07:03Like, and also, why is she doing this, and does she expect to get a job somewhere else?
07:08Because once you whistleblow one company, I doubt you're gonna be desirable in the hiring.
07:13I feel like the way she's going about it, though, is she's probably gonna try to start a career off of being that whistleblower.
07:19I feel like we get, we're heard everywhere we go.
07:22There's cameras everywhere.
07:23If you mention something on your phone, next thing you know it's coming in.
07:27I think people are listening everywhere.
07:28As an ad.
07:29I don't think it's just Facebook.
07:30Yeah. That's right.
07:31Well, Charisma, thank you so much for stopping by and giving us all the scoop on what's trending on our social feeds.
07:37For more on the latest celebrity news and all things social, go check out Essence.com.
07:42We have to take a quick break, but stay with us, you're watching The Real.
07:45Thank you, ladies.
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