Mo’Nique’s Husband Compares Her Defiant Struggles To MLK & Malcolm X


Speak a revolution will get tabled on the most recent episode “Mo’Nique & Sidney’s Open Relationship.”

Mo’Nique is not performed talking her piece about inequality, and neither is her husband it seems. For individuals who do not know, her husband Sidney Hicks additionally occurs to be her devoted supervisor, giving their family the auspices  a state-run enterprise. To not point out, they even host a podcast collectively, fittingly titled: Mo’Nique & Sidney’s Open Relationship.

On the most recent episode Mo’Nique & Sidney’s Open Relationship, the seemingly fortunately married couple mentioned her very public argument with Steve Harvey. As you may recall, Mo’Nique and Steve Harvey argued over their differing philosophies on inequality in Hollywood, with the comedienne drawing upon a number examples, together with her struggles with oppression, in addition to Whoopie Goldberg, whom she claims is beset with an analogous breadth inequality on the subject of her position on The View.

After their very own air dialogue, Mo’Nique claims that Steve Harvey tried to influence her to quell her “radical voice,” an alleged incident she and her husband touched on not directly within the newest episode their podcast. Sydney noticed match to check his spouse to notable Civil Rights leaders on the revolutionary spectrum – two specifically: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

“The identical people who we cope with now, in historical past, that’s saying, ‘Mo’Nique, you ought to be quiet,’ had been the identical ones who informed Malcolm,” he opined. “They had been the identical ones who informed MLK, ‘Y’all had been loopy for standing up on your rights.'”

Previously, Mo’Nique led a public discord towards Netflix, on related grounds. She additionally accused her “friends” colluding towards her, a listing Black Hollywood personalities she believes have consented to a course of trade tokenization. Whether or not or not her anecdotes maintain any weight, Mo’Nique is talking to a truism that goes unreported, far too ten.