Talib Kweli filed an unusual and unrepentant lawsuit alleging that he was injured. “emotional distress resulting in illness”After the feminist website JezebelPublished a story comparing his Twitter suspension in 2020 with his online harassment of a female.
The article is entitled “Talib Kweli’s Harassment Campaign Shows How Unprotected Black Women Are Online and Off,” reported that Kweli, 46, was kicked off the social media site because he’d been obsessively tweeting at a 24-year-old activist named Maya Moody for hours on end “after a discussion aboutcolorism in hip-hop went left.”
In his new lawsuit, filed Monday in New York Supreme Court, Kweli — whose full name is Talib Kweli Greene — claims he “never harassed anyone”And that’s it! JezebelArticle “used him as a guinea pig to clarify how black men treat black women.”
That assessment didn’t fly with Moody, who tweeted Tuesday that she’s still facing harassment tied to the Twitter beef. “His fans are literally still harassing me to this day,” Moody wrote. “He has continued to mention me in interviews, live appearances, etc for over a year and a half. All because I vaguely mentioned colorism and never said his or anyones name.”
To this day, his fans continue to harass me. Over a year, he continues to mention me in interviews, live performances, etc. It was because I vaguely mentioned colorism, but never spoke of his or anyone else’s name. https://t.co/UMhO2yU9J8
— Maya Angelique👑 (@moneyymaya) August 9, 2022
Greene spends most of his lawsuit refuting the defensive position that he took when responding to Moody. The main focus of the JezebelThe story was about his relationship with Moody that turned into something that caused Twitter to ban him.
“[Jezebel] published an article as if Mr. Greene’s statements were false, and that he was some monster that didn’t like black women, when 500k plus of his fans are black women, his ex-wife and child’s mother are black women, and his employees are black women,”The lawsuit, filed by Greene himself, states.
Greene claims that the article has been turned “a minor conflict into a grand parade”That cost him his jobs and $300,000 in income for the past two years. According to the Black Star rapper, he “went into a depression state of loss of appetite, sleeplessness, edgy, anxiety, and discomfort around certain women.”
Names of the lawsuit Jezebel, its parent company G/O Media and the article’s author as defendants.
“Jezebel’s article fairly reported on the controversy which led to the permanent suspension of Talib Kweli’s Twitter account. This suit, filed two years after the story was published, has no merit and the company will be seeking our attorneys fees pursuant to the protections afforded to the press to publish stories about matters of public interest like this one,”G/O Media has published a statement. JezebelTuesday readings