UPDATED — 4:42 PM 07/03/2024 Columbus Quick has apologized for his feedback.
“I notice that I severely offended my black ladies,” mentioned Quick whereas saying {that a} clip from the podacst was taken out of context and calling it “clickbait.” “My reply was prolonged and that clip was scorching, I assume. I ought to’ve been smarter and never falling into these traps. The actual reply was, I used to be speaking concerning the new technology, on social media and entitlement.”
He then went on to clarify that absentee fathers pressured Black mothers to show their youngsters to be impartial.
“It was deeper than that reply, I’m actually sorry if that offended anyone. My opinion will not be at all times neccessary.”
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It’s time to defund podcast mics and Black males who make disparaging feedback about Black ladies all of the whereas being accused of domestically abusing ladies of varied races, even those they placed on pedestals.
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Defunct discourser Columbus Quick was a latest visitor on The Unqualified AF podcast (there’s a joke riiiiight there, however we’ll calm down) and mentioned a myriad of subjects. Issues bought particularly attention-grabbing and disrespectful, nevertheless, when the 41-year-old was requested a query about Black ladies.
Columbus’ rant started after host Azar Farideh, who has a Persian mom and a Black father, requested him to weigh in on courting Black ladies versus courting ladies of different races.
The actor has been linked to Britney Spears, Elisabeth Ovesen beforehand often called Karrine Steffans, his ex-wife Tanee McCall, and his present spouse Aida Abramyan who’s of Armenian descent.
“Now this a query, I’m gonna ask a query, it’s an attention-grabbing query, it’s a controversial query, that I need you to reply truthfully,” mentioned Azar Farideh in a since-deleted YouTube video of the dialog. “Within the media there’s this fixed dialog about Black males courting exterior of their race, there’s a dialog about how Black ladies are troublesome, aggressive, imply, offended, bitter; a few of it I take accountability for as a Black girl and having Black associates.
She continued,
“So I wanna speak about it as a result of I wanna know, what’s the distinction between being with Black ladies and being with one other girl?”
Whereas noting on The Unqualified AF podcast that the division of Black households occurred “throughout J. Edgar Hoover’s tenure on the FBI when crack and weapons had been distributed into the Black group to dismantle the Black Panther motion”, he then famous that in slavery eradicating the person out of the house was the “fast method to management, demasuclate [sic] the person and take management of the Black household.”
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“Now we come to the 2000s and these Black ladies had been raised by single moms, [and have] absentee fathers, fathers are both incarcerated, useless or simply gone,” mentioned Quick on the podcast. “Their mama mentioned ‘You don’t want no n****, you don’t want no man, you are able to do it by your self,’ that vitality comes into the house.”
“There is no such thing as a respect of the Black man by Black ladies,” he added. “I’m not speaking about all of y’all, there’s a majority of you guys that was raised with no father so you don’t have any respect for that. In order that’s the distinction.”
“That is what the Black ladies will say; don’t you blame the person for being an absent father?” puzzled Farideh.
The dialog then continued with the actor and Farideh speaking about how ladies of different races ladies had been taught to be submissive and subservient to their males.
”“That Mexican facet, that Asian—Korean, Japanese—that different facet… Culturally, these ladies had been taught to carry down but it surely’s greater than subservient, it’s don’t get it twisted; I understand how to cuss a person out completely however as quickly you completed cussing him out, you continue to making dinner, you continue to washing garments, you continue to cleansing the home; that’s simply what you had been educated to do,” mentioned Quick. “I’m not saying it’s all Black ladies,” he added earlier than happening to mock Black ladies with neck rolling. “That sort of coaching, It’s a special vitality.”
(***SIGHS***)
As you may think about, X previously often called Twitter, is letting Columbus Quick HAVE it by declaring his storied historical past of home violence and general oddball conduct.
Hit the flip to see it.
Columbus Quick Will get Dragged Over His Disparaging Feedback About Black Ladies
This is identical man who named his son after one other grown ass man bc mentioned grown ass man stored making him really feel like a “little nigga” and sonning him. So he of his personal admission named hin after mentioned man bc now “he’s my little nigga” https://t.co/BEnLqA6yF9
— The Head DEI In Cost (@Dreadful4Tymes) July 3, 2024
I want I used to be mendacity. Man wants a therapist. https://t.co/7nPFn8jes0 pic.twitter.com/z9bdGcVwxX
— The Head DEI In Cost (@Dreadful4Tymes) July 3, 2024
How would Columbus Quick know? He hasn’t been with a Black girl in 20 years.
He been beating the shit out them exoticals thou. 🤷🏿♀️ https://t.co/YHak19e9jP
— Cowgirl Seven (@TiphSeven) July 3, 2024
Columbus Quick’s character on scandal was killed off as a result of he, in actual life, beat the sh*t out of his spouse. He was charged in ’22 with home violence and baby endangerment, and that is after his TWO earlier wives accused him of DV.
We do not give a FUCK about what he says https://t.co/nYrRlFWDiK
— India Renae. MPH, MSW. (@India_Renae_) July 3, 2024
Columbus Quick Has A Historical past Of Alleged Home Violence With A number of Ladies
Columbus Quick’s shortsighted view of Black ladies reminds folks that he lacks judgment and particularly character, so his phrases ought to fall on deaf ears. In April 2014, PEOPLE reported thatShort’s then-estranged spouse Tanee McCall was granted a short lived restraining order after alleging the actor drunkenly threatened to kill her and himself and accosted her with a knife.
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She filed for divorce and that very same yr, Quick was booted from Scandal after being arrested for allegedly knocking a person out throughout an altercation at a West L.A. restaurant.
In 2016, PEOPLE reported that Shorts’s ex Karrine Steffans was granted a short lived restraining order towards him after he allegedly drunkenly kicked their bed room door down in a rage and threatened her 18-year-old son in separate incidents.
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— Columbus⭕️Quick.eth (@ColumbusShort1) February 13, 2016
In 2022, TMZ reported that he was charged with two misdemeanors for an alleged home violence incident involving his spouse Aida Abramyan.
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The fees towards him had been dropped in October of that yr. In 2018 he spent 34 days in jail after pleading no contest to abusing her.
Quick and Abramyan are nonetheless married.
Podcast Host Azar Farideh Responds To Backlash
Amid rising backlash over her query to Columbus Quick, host Azar Farideh famous in her InstaStory that her intention behind the query was to “ignite a dialogue about uniting Black males and Black ladies” as a Black girl herself.
From one Black girl to a different, sis, we don’t care.
This dialog may have (and may have) stayed within the vault.
