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Welcome to the Black Culture Thread, where everything from Little Caesars to 'what's hot on the streets' is up for debate. This community is focused on the discussion and experience of daily life for minorities. GAF is a rather large forum, and these unique experiences can get lost in the noise. But while this thread was created to ensure certain topics relevant to the black community could be discussed reasonably, this isn't a "Blacks Only" spot by any means. Any and all are free to hop in, regardless of skin color, ethnicity and walk of life. Consider it open mic: all are welcome to keep it real. It's a community thread, so it can be intimidating for newcomers to jump in considering all the in-jokes and general cadence of the thread. If you are unfamiliar with anything, just ask. We are always looking for more decent folks to bring into the family.

Enjoy your stay. Don't track dirt all over the good carpet.

End of an era in more ways than one. Last OT made by me for a while.
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The keeper of the BCT canon has compiled a dramatis personae for new users:

For your reference:

Slayven = Man born in 1776 who only likes Asian women and comics
Prototype Viktor/spindashing/double jump/Blasian Persuasion/BlackGhost/dskillzhtown = Selling mixtapes on the corner
Gordon = Alien from an ancient TV show. Eats kittens and stole Slayven's king crab crown while we weren't looking.
Shy = The nice guy TM.
Imm0rt4l = Swole
_***** = Died for our sins
Merc_ = _***** returns
DY = Doesn't pay child support.
Young Magus = DY Junior.
Furyous = DY's alt
EloquentM/FeenixRising/jmood88/LionPride/EdibleKnife/Black Republican/ArgyleReptile = Wild crabs. No home training and still out here wearing hoodies.
harSon = Drake
Jandro = Horse/Brony
EscoBlades = Works in a broom closet
JC = Keep him away from your mommas.
Moris = Permanent CPT
Numb = Quit GAF. We miss him.
Ironfist Sect = New guy, thinks he's Numb.
Bronx-Man = Silent L carrier. Has beef with TheKaeptain
TheBlackMarvel = Head of Black Euro GAF
MWS Natural = Writes laws
TheFlow/Kid Kamikaze10/Jacir/Kraftwerk/Face it Tiger../Kiddizzy/UnemployedVillain/Mizerman = Lil Crabs. Found books, a suit, and got a Lil home training
FyreWulff = Your white friend. Got to have him around.
Royalan = Got that good salad hair.
FreeMufasa = acclaimed author of the Niggas in Japan series
ManMadeMan/Parallax/ReiGun = Comic encyclopedias
Crocodile/zeemumu/Secret Fawful/Momotaro/Jackben = Anime encyclopedias
Sou Da = Cartoon encyclopedia
Village/Professor Beef = Sonic encyclopedias
HTown = Mark Henry/Nintendo Encyclopedia. Discovered a connection in racism and quantum locks.
Africanus/Nakazato/Yaphett Kotto/FadedRevolution/Gattsu25/bobbychalkers/MikeBreezy92/shingi70/ApharmdX = Smarty Art Crabs. Think they're leaving the bucket by picking up books, getting married and bettering themselves.
Devo/Satch = Alumni
Angelus = totes mixed with /s
Ishi = A Bear and former BCT Alumni
Rio = expert at getting drunk and strippers
Massive Duck, C.M. = Put in a lot of labor for black issues
Trey = Lost his thread making abilities to Subzero.
Subzero = Artist. Lost his thread making abilities to Malyse/DreamDrop
Malyse = The current Highlander
Kreed = Too much free time
captmcblack/Mrs. Manky/andthebeatgoeson/The Faceless Master/Big Baybee/soundscream = Sits on the corner and kicks knowledge.
akira28 = The guy that kicks knowledge but doesn't look like they should be kicking knowledge
The Adder = Has a lot of stories
Emperor_EL = Apparently rules over Ls. Not sure how I missed this one.
Vince McMahon = Owns the WWE
neojubei/Aiustis = I by Kendrick Lamar
Enzom21/Infinite/excelsiorlef = On the front lines
JeanGrey = Lives with an alien
jWILL253/Dai101/cdyhybrid/Dereck/RedSwirl/Crimson_Gold/hypernima/Bubba T/Afrocious/Kyledk05 = Black Belt Crabs. Have accepted the rules of the bucket.
Storm Chamber = Silky Johnson
MHWilliams/bish = Your local hood police.
XiaNaphryz = Chef that works part time in the hood police
Dreams-Visions = Mr. Steal your girl
Johndoey = Coming for Slay's king crab crown

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Explanation of Cultural Appropriation by Angelus

Institutional Racism: The Continued War on Black America by Amirox

Sexual Preferences and Racism by Sub (original article by Samantha Allen)

List of topics on black history and racial identity by Mumei

Nigga and You: A Comprehensive Guide to the N-Word by SENPAIatLARGE

The White Disenfranchisement Narrative by platocplx

What Should I Do: Resources for Making an Effort in Troubling Times by EdibleKnife

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Black Excellence vs. White Mediocrity by Arthur Chu / Salon, through Alternet

The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Video Games' Blackness Problem by Evan Narcisse (Kotaku)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

When you say you 'don't see race', you're ignoring racism, not helping to solve it by Zach Stafford

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Everyone wants to be black. There's nothing more punk rock on Earth than being black. We stroll in, all muscle and sinew and cocoa, fucking the game up like dirty edge connectors. We laugh loud and speak bold and emit "I-just-don't-give-a-fuck" with every movement. We have been scrutinized and analyzed in every conceivable way, and still we are mysterious and exotic right down to the kink of our hair to those - surprising, still numerous - people who haven't been in contact with us before. We've created the rhythm and the blues, the rock and the roll, the hip and the hop. We brought in the noise and the funk. We put the soul in food, and pretty much everything else too. We built your pyramids, and we leap over them with our seemingly impossible collective athleticism, borne of mountains, jungles and plains that many of us still live in all across the world. Everyone wants to be black.

No one wants to be black. There's nothing more terrifying than the knowledge that we exist in every way but individually to everyone - even other black people. We can never be judged by our own merits; we carry the weight of the race's progression with every step into the future like Atlas, and even he shrugged...but we can't, because it's considered weak and selling out if we do. Every bit of slang, every bit of clothing that sits the wrong way, every head nod and hand gesture can and will be taken in the wrong way, a universal "there-goes-the-neighborhood" by everyone that can do so, which basically consists of everyone that doesn't want the social association with black people. That group, naturally, consists of everyone that is able to pass as "non-black". We live in a world where we were kings until we were cattle, and then we were weapons, and then we were like aphids, sprouting up where we weren't wanted, corrupting non-black youth, and the reason for everything from crime to lowered test scores or property value. Nobody wants to be black.

My blackness offends infinitely.
I want to be black.

Natural's Law - is a humorous observation made by GAF poster MWS Natural in 2011 which is becoming an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving black people approaches 1. In other words, Natural put forth the hyperbolic observation that, given enough time, in any online discussion regarding any form of conflict someone inevitably criticizes some point made in the discussion by comparing it to discrimination faced by blacks.

Racism is weird. Everybody knows it totally exists, but when you look at any specific situation, racism is never involved. You can know that it exists, but when you look for it, it turns into something else.

Racism is quantum locked. It doesn't exist when it's being observed. The moment it is seen by any living creature, it freezes into a coincidence.

The Liberal Limit

And while we're at it, let's talk about another thing that has been pissing me the fuck off recently. Lately, in the pages of liberal bastions like Atlantic, Slate, and New Republic, there has been this movement gaining steam largely because nobody wants to give it a name. So let me name this mofo: The Liberal Limit. You know it— in fact it's been the view of many liberals and leftists, but particularly old white liberal men (yeah I said it), that progressiveness has gone too far, so far that even their privilege now feels attacked.

They're tired of learning new gender pronouns. Tired of hiding that nigger joke book. Tired of having to figure out how to respond to a Rihanna video. Tired of feminists of colour pointing out fissures in whatever wave of feminism we got right now. Tired of black kids on campus whining all the time. Tired of everybody being so angry because without their alliance all you coloured folk would be doomed. Liberal but up to the point where it scrapes on privilege.

But here's the news. You're a progressive. You're supposed to progress. You're supposed to be more liberal today than you were yesterday. Yes, we're supposed to passionately debate (not tear down) even the stance of our allies, even those who agree with us 60% of the time. You're supposed to keep changing your views on race because even the most positive view is inherently flawed and needs work. The whole point to being liberal, to being progressive is to continuously evolve, continuously question, continuously debate, even continuously knock down and build up, sometimes even ripping everything apart to start again. My views on trans people are different in 2014 that they were in 2004. And you can bet your ass it will be even better in 2024 than it is now, because that's what makes me not conservative. The point to being a progressive is to fucking progress.

After being beaten to the ground by Towering Black Football Player Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman reluctantly pulls the trigger in self-defense. Martin falls back and lets loose a mighty African laugh. "So it begins!" he cries (translated from thug language).

The transponder on his wrist contacts the White House, where Operation Caliphate sits waiting.

"Your majesty," cries an aide (likely homosexual), "Agent Martin, codenamed Fire of Allah, has completed his mission!"

Imam Hussein Obama clasps his hands and smirks, a "jazz cigarette" in his mouth. "And now the honkies will pay."

I live in Los Angeles, and the tension between police and blacks is still pretty thick. I always freeze up when I have to interact with a cop, or if one pulls me over for whatever reason.

My best friend, he's white and Persian (but looks white), was telling me about this one time him and his friend were driving on the freeway (his friend was black, my white friend was driving), and they got pulled over. When the officer got out of the car, he approached the black passenger and demanded that HE get out of the car, then proceeded to slam him against the car and cuff him, demanding answers to questions. My friend was like, "What the hell, dude, he wasn't even driving the car!" at which point he was told to shut the fuck up by the officer, and he continued to harass his friend. Fucking unbelievable, but it happens regularly.

My mom also has plenty of stories about how the cops used to harass her when she was younger, and she worked at Warner Bros. studios before I was born. Granted, that was in the 70's, but sadly, not much has changed when it comes to how we're perceived by non-blacks. We're always treated like wild animals that have been caged for too long and can pop off at any moment.

Most black kids in America have been grilled time and time again by their parents about how they should behave and act when around white people. It sounds awful, because it is, but it's true. I had more than a few sit downs growing up, where my mother would drill into me how important it was to "not give them a reason" to think less of you. I grew up trying to be the most perfect black guy I could be. I did everything I could to show non-blacks that we were nothing like the people they saw on TV, or read about in the newspaper. I had no idea at the time that it really doesn't matter how polite I am. How intelligent I am, how "well spoken" I am. To a lot of them, I'm just an uppity nigger with a chip on his shoulder.

Even then, I still continue to be the best person that I can be. Not because I'm afraid of white people, but because it feels good to not be a douche canoe to others, and ideally, I'd hope the same courtesy would be returned to me. Unfortunately, this country has a real fucking hard time seeing black people as equal humans. Centuries of dehumanization and demonizing has done a fucking wonder on our PR, so to speak. Even other countries are afraid of us because of what they've seen and heard in the media or news reports that choose to highlight the worst of us more often than the best of us.

I'm a short, light skinned black/Samoan guy that most people don't realize is black. The shit I've heard some of the nicest people in the world say about black people in my presence is disheartening. The look on their faces when I tell them, "Well, I'm black too, you know," is fucking priceless. And it wasn't just white people saying those things about black people to me, thinking I wasn't black. It was people of all ethnicities and backgrounds going on and on about how horrible, filthy, disgusting, and deplorable black people were, and how they were a hopeless race of people that no good ever comes out of.

Generally, they'd stammer a "Well, you're not like them" rebuttal when I'd out myself as a black guy. I was "one of the good ones." The sad thing is that, when I was younger, I used to wear that like a badge of honor. "I'm one of the good ones! The other blacks are bad!" I bought into the same institutional and systemic racism that leads to tragedies like this. The type of institutional racism that has black men and women that have managed to ascend higher than their peers to tell them to "pull their damn pants up." I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it's a shame that such a divide between our people has been allowed to propagate. I'm thankful that, as I got older, I realized how insulting and disrespectful being called "One of the good ones" really is. It's even sadder that, even to this day, it's still said to me by non-black friends, or family of friends. It's sad and frustrating that no matter what level of good blacks do in this country, we will always be judged by the actions of a few, and treated with the highest levels of fear and distrust.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

That's why I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started. Because I know our work has not only helped so many Americans; it has inspired so many Americans – especially so many young people out there – to believe you can make a difference; to hitch your wagon to something bigger than yourselves. This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I've seen you in every corner of the country. You believe in a fair, just, inclusive America; you know that constant change has been America's hallmark, something not to fear but to embrace, and you are willing to carry this hard work of democracy forward. You'll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good hands.

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop; in fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my days that remain. For now, whether you're young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president – the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.

I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours.

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written:

Yes We Can.

Yes We Did.

Yes We Can.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

 

[Izuna]

Beautiful thread

Thank you guys for the warm welcome last thread.

~~~

Two more days as Foxy Brown

 

[Malyse]

Beautiful thread

Thank you guys for the warm welcome last thread.

~~~

Two more days as Foxy Brown

You trying to make Slayven cry?

 

[Izuna]

You trying to make Slayven cry?

Hope

 

[EstoyBlackWaldo]

Ayyy, Thanks Obama.

Morning Fresh BCT

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Yup..

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Everyone enjoy it before they start making it illegal to have colored skin

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Hope

Just be careful out in the streets. Many on lookers will try and do shit with your pictures. One dude used to catalogue every picture of gaffers. And good cow had a backup of GAF threads; can't remember if it was the same dude.

And you'll get some peoples hanging in here and some friends. The 'friends' will roll up like, 'remember me from school?' and you'll be like, 'naw, not really'.

Tldr watch posting your face on the internet.

 

[Secret Fawful]

I think royalan's post on allies should be added to the OP.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Everyone enjoy it before they start making it illegal to have colored skin

It's not?

 

[Kreed]

Thought you guys voted for "Bish Please"? Not complaining thought, title was probably "too close to the sun".

 

[Alligatorjandro]

It's not?

Officially I mean

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Damn, I post that much in the last thread? Holy shit.

Good thread, friend. And the title hurts too much.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Didn't even realize we were near 20K.

 

[LionPride]

Why you tryna make me cry with that title

 

[Malyse]

Thought you guys voted for "Bish Please"? Not complaining thought, title was probably "too close to the sun".

Naw, it's

Spoiler

Thanks Obama.

I was never going to use Bish Please. That's just not a thing that was going to happen.

I think royalan's post on allies should be added to the OP.

Let's see if it will fit.

It doesn't fit by almost 1000 characters.

 

[Htown]

Thanks, Obama.

Gonna miss having a presidential president.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Thanks, Obama.

Gonna miss having a presidential president.

Man was a bright light in a dim ass world, man. Ain't never gonna get another president like Obama for a loooong time.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Thanks, Obama.

Gonna miss having a presidential president.

Indeed..

 

[LionPride]

Just be careful out in the streets. Many on lookers will try and do shit with your pictures. One dude used to catalogue every picture of gaffers. And good cow had a backup of GAF threads; can't remember if it was the same dude.

And you'll get some peoples hanging in here and some friends. The 'friends' will roll up like, 'remember me from school?' and you'll be like, 'naw, not really'.

Tldr watch posting your face on the internet.

Truth

 

[SENPAIatLARGE]

Great OT as usual Malyse.

 

[EstoyBlackWaldo]

Just be careful out in the streets. Many on lookers will try and do shit with your pictures. One dude used to catalogue every picture of gaffers. And good cow had a backup of GAF threads; can't remember if it was the same dude.

And you'll get some peoples hanging in here and some friends. The 'friends' will roll up like, 'remember me from school?' and you'll be like, 'naw, not really'.

Tldr watch posting your face on the internet.

How sad does someones life have to be, to do this. smh

 

[Malyse]

I think royalan's post on allies should be added to the OP.

Know what? I'm going to add parts of the Hall of Fame to the BHM thread. Roy's post will be there too.

 

[LionPride]

How sad does someones life have to be, to do this. smh

Think about what site your on, then think about the weird ass people who get attracted here, then think about how some of them have worrisome views, then remember when they get banned. Niggas are wild

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Think about what site your on, then think about the weird ass people who get attracted here, then think about how some of them have worrisome views, then remember when they get banned. Niggas are wild

Niggas are wild, indeed. I mean there were strange ass threads on OT sometimes. Especially last year. That was some defcon 5 kinda fuckery.

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

I'm going to do my best to post more often this time.

 

[zeemumu]

Just be careful out in the streets. Many on lookers will try and do shit with your pictures. One dude used to catalogue every picture of gaffers. And good cow had a backup of GAF threads; can't remember if it was the same dude.

And you'll get some peoples hanging in here and some friends. The 'friends' will roll up like, 'remember me from school?' and you'll be like, 'naw, not really'.

Tldr watch posting your face on the internet.

I've only had to deal with this once but it was a picture from one of the times I hung out with bunny.

 

[Malyse]

SE Avengers Project sounds dope. Fuck the haters.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

I'm going to do my best to post more often this time.

Keeping that Korra hate in check?

 

[Lightning_Roller]

SE Avengers Project sounds dope. Fuck the haters.

I wonder if it's gonna be western rpg or action rpg like ultimate alliance. Either way, I'm pumped. Also PLATNIUM needs to make a black panther game. Just saying.

 

[spindashing]

How is The New Edition Story, folks? BBD were on The Breakfast Club and I almost forgot about the series.

Not only that, I forgot that BBD is actually going to release an album tomorrow at midnight lol.

 

[zeemumu]

Keeping that Korra hate in check?

Korra as a character is flawed due to her inability to learn but I blame that partially on Nickelodeon continuously screwing over the creators. Clearly they moved it to an online-only series because it wasn't getting those Fanboy and Chum Chum ratings.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

SE Avengers Project sounds dope. Fuck the haters.

lol..Big fan, are we?

 

[Malyse]

I wonder if it's gonna be western rpg or action rpg like ultimate alliance. Either way, I'm pumped. Also PLATNIUM needs to make a black panther game. Just saying.

Fuck no. Platinum is b tier at best with licenses.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Are we really pretending all of Korra was shit when it was really just season 2? Had some of the best antagonists in Avatar, and Korra (when she wasn't moping or being stubborn) was way cooler than Aang

 

[Izuna]

Can't wait for Black Panther man. Saw so much MCU to prepare

 

[Slayven]

Marvel won't diss BP by giving him to Platinum. They seem to value games now

 

[BitStyle]

It's been a week of Trump already I'm already tired of it all.

Luckily KH2.8 been keeping me busy as of late

 

[Malyse]

The Avengers project is being designed for gamers worldwide and will be packed with all the characters, environments, and iconic moments that have thrilled longtime fans of the franchise. Featuring a completely original story, it will introduce a universe gamers can play in for years to come. More details on The Avengers project and other games will be announced in 2018.

 

[spindashing]

Fuck no. Platinum is b tier at best with licenses.

Transformers was alright though. The other two are doo doo, I agree.

 

[EdibleKnife]

Perfect new topic!

Worked hard for this topic. Hopefully people stop asking "What can I do? Everything seems hopeless. etc."

 

[Malyse]

Transformers was alright though. The other two are doo doo, I agree.

Alright is b tier and one in three being "alright" is fucking terrible averages.

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

Keeping that Korra hate in check?

Damn right.

Why announce so early?

 

[Secret Fawful]

Know what? I'm going to add parts of the Hall of Fame to the BHM thread. Roy's post will be there too.

Good, it's an important message for everyone, including myself.

 

[Malyse]

Damn right.



Why announce so early?

Who's the fucking publisher?

 

[zeemumu]

Fuck no. Platinum is b tier at best with licenses.

Looks like this is the only Marvel world we're getting for now

I hope I get my Haunted Mansion World.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Fuck no. Platinum is b tier at best with licenses.

Okay okay. Then who would be good to do black panther Justice? Rocksteady? I think WB owns them. But they would be good though.

 

[Enzom21]

How is The New Edition Story, folks? BBD were on The Breakfast Club and I almost forgot about the series.

Not only that, I forgot that BBD is actually going to release an album tomorrow at midnight lol.

Michael Rapaport being in it kind of kills my interest. I hate that weaselly culture vulture.

 

[Sch1sm]

Morning, BCT. And thanks for yet another thread, DD.

 

[Malyse]

Man.
Kojima is so hilariously full of shit.