Dear Madonna,

On Monday morning, Tariq Nasheed, the left foot of Hotep-Twitter Voltron, tweeted the following poster from the upcoming movie

I don’t even have a proper response for this right now.

It’s a truly sad state of affairs when this is the way we have to think about things.

YO.

WINNER

The Root has many great writers, but I appreciate your appreciation of my work. <3

Wow.

Right?!

Why did you do this?

What? Beards rule.

I had to.

He gets a settlement, he gets his accrued personal time, and he’s still alive. Doesn’t seem fair.

That was mean.

We gon’ see, I guess.

I’m all the way here for this Black Excellence.

“Wait for me.” “Put some money on my books.”

Realest shit you ever wrote.

Wait. I might be into this.

I agree with all of this.