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The Black Culture Thread |OT4| Learn to love the BBC
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Your weapon of choice would have to be a bass guitar.
Its Speedbump
black eye. good sniper who embarrasses everyone with his antics
The Faceless Master
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People called me Yin Yang in HS because I'm black, white and asian. They also called me Rush Hour in elementary. Kids be creative with those nick names...
Boss Riovane
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Massive Duck. C.M.
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One thing I never understood was why the rhyming cook was "Roadblock."
What's the connection? Unless roadblock is a higher level form of the itis...
What's the connection? Unless roadblock is a higher level form of the itis...
Boss Riovane
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I thought it was because he was a big motherfucker.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Kid slander ranks just under old church lady slander and gay male slander.
You know shit that can fuck you up for life.
MorisUkunRasik
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So tentative for tonight, Me, DY and Devo. No word on Immortal yet.Anyone wanna join?
Massive Duck. C.M.
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People getting twisted over a damn donut add from half a world away, that some white dude brought up.
If a naked, jet black woman offers me a donut, I'm all in.
If a naked, jet black woman offers me a donut, I'm all in.
I look at it this way. It is racist as fuck, but am I upset? Nah
so you take food from random naked people? huh
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Think about it like this-why would making a woman jet black, in this particular context, be racist? Donut=delicious. Jet black woman=delicious. There's no malice or mockery in making her black in this instance, unlike what usually happens with blackface.
jordan0386
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Black is still good, is a poor advertising technique.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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But see, that's on the person looking at the image, whether to see it as "black is good" or "black is still good." Admitted, I can't read Thai so I don't know exactly what it says on the poster, but it doesn't seem to be putting out that vibe.
If anything, I give the Thai people credit for going with "black is still good" over the American "nah, you don't really want black."
Anyway, trying to talk about the finer points of thing like this in the general OT with some of those cats is like trying to teach a dog not to take a shit ever again.
They made her lips pink to draw the black= black people parallel. Such a unneeded move. cause it is not like the donet is jelly filled from my understanding.
ViewtifulJC
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Alligatorjandro
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But they dont mean to be racist so its ok
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Yeah, I actually agree with the lip thing. I'm just not seeing the degree of malice behind it.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
The lip color matches the logo, but it's also what makes it skirt the line. I'd probably like the ad, if not for that.
jordan0386
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There is always a catch. Trick is to not accept the catch and just flat out call it out.
Hey, pink lips are not necessary. Lets do something else.
But that is literally a world with 'no' black people. The fuck do they care. lol.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Definitely.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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They should have just had the sense to get a real chocolate goddess, but who knows if there even is one in Thailand.
I wish every ad and media office had an old black man that sat in the corner watching tv all day. And any new idea for public consumption has to be ran through him. Either he gives you the nod, or side eye powered by dogs and firehoses.
The Butler would not have made it past script stage.
The Butler would not have made it past script stage.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Call Key and Peele lol
jordan0386
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Butler was fine. Tried way too hard to connect the dots though.
ViewtifulJC
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Seriously DC Comics: get a black friend. Male or female, it doesnt matter, just get one. Were easy to find. Get one and then ask him if its cool to have Africa ruled by a monkey. Just run it by them, real casual-like. Hey man, what do you think about this? If they give you the gasface or their eyebrows narrow change your plans.
How come Africa is always the one continent that someone gets to rule ALL of? No one rules an entire continent in the real world, and Africa has dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct peoples and cultures. I get that treating it as something other than a homogeneous Dark Continent would require, I dunno, opening Wikipedia or something, and that its just easier to make up a country with an African sounding name. I get that you guys dont actually care about colored folks. Theyre just action figures yet to be produced, a checkbox waiting to be ticked on the path to a diverse universe. Your track record has proven that, and as much as I wish otherwise, I cant really fault you for it. Youre in the business of making profit, and black people dont sell to the pet market youve groomed. It is what it is. This is the world we live in.
But for really real, though: you seriously need to get a black friend.
Cause youre looking real stupid right now.
Doesn't sound too different from gaf.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Dark Forrest is the best Forrest.
As for DC, they haven't gotten much right since McDuffie passed...
As for DC, they haven't gotten much right since McDuffie passed...
Byakuya769
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Yall are making me side with the usual suspects on this. Blackface typically has exaggerated outlines of big lips in contrast to the black background. That lady just has logo colored lipstick and a smile.
jordan0386
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Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Crash. That's why, and it still won awards. You can't get a movie about race that isn't extreme as all fucks or about slavery and the civil rights movement. Anything else would be to real.
Byakuya769
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Shit.
I just prefer discussing real issues and arguing for change, instead of wasting capital and credibility on dumb shit.
Give me the reasoning for willful blackface. I'd be happy to hear it.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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The closest we're probably going to get until around 2016 are sci-fi allegories at best. I don't know, how did Fruitville Station do?
That's what I was talking about before. What does a questionable donut ad from Thailand really have to do with what's going on here at home? If anything, a lot of Asian ideas about black skin are hand me downs from white culture. It's the same reason people are adamant that it's not even questionable in the thread.
I agree.
Now it'd be great if some black filmmakers would stop trying to pander to the known commodities and pitch something different for once. Even my grandmother thinks that The Bulter was played out.
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Alligatorjandro
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lol @ Dy's tag
Seriously DC Comics: get a black friend. Male or female, it doesnt matter, just get one. Were easy to find. Get one and then ask him if its cool to have Africa ruled by a monkey. Just run it by them, real casual-like. Hey man, what do you think about this? If they give you the gasface or their eyebrows narrow change your plans.
How come Africa is always the one continent that someone gets to rule ALL of? No one rules an entire continent in the real world, and Africa has dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct peoples and cultures. I get that treating it as something other than a homogeneous Dark Continent would require, I dunno, opening Wikipedia or something, and that its just easier to make up a country with an African sounding name. I get that you guys dont actually care about colored folks. Theyre just action figures yet to be produced, a checkbox waiting to be ticked on the path to a diverse universe. Your track record has proven that, and as much as I wish otherwise, I cant really fault you for it. Youre in the business of making profit, and black people dont sell to the pet market youve groomed. It is what it is. This is the world we live in.
But for really real, though: you seriously need to get a black friend.
Cause youre looking real stupid right now.
that is when I came up with "no black people work in that office theory"
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
That Pusha T art is dope.
I heard that it was excellent. Haven't had the chance to go see it yet... :/
I really wish they would too...
I heard that it was excellent. Haven't had the chance to go see it yet... :/
I really wish they would too...
Alligatorjandro
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I remember that thread when that city politician from NYC dressed up as a black basketball player and people said it wasnt racist.
Only way to win is not to play. I lost today.
It is the third highest opening of the year for a film in limited release (behind Spring Breakers and The Place Beyond the Pines)[31] and it is also one of the best openings for a Sundance festival top prize winner.[32]
Same. I should have known from two sides to every story.
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