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The Black Culture Thread |OT6| Monica Enjoys Being Black

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JustAnotherMike

Member
What's good, BCT? Between illness and vacation I've missed like the last 100 pages.

I see I came back at a good time. WrassleGaf been hiding those treasures and there is a new podcast to listen to.


EscoBlades said:
Brehs



Thoughts?
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Trying to reference a Gibson book? Nah, son. Twitter ain't having that.

I'm a spy story junkie, so my mind immediately goes spook = spy. It took me a good 5 episodes of watching Spooks (aka MI-5) to even realize the other meaning.

edit: Oh, damn. I'm a member now. I hope I don't fuck this up.
 
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EscoBlades

Ubisoft Marketing
JustAnotherMike said:
Trying to reference a Gibson book? Nah, son. Twitter ain't having that.

I'm a spy story junkie, so my mind immediately goes spook = spy. It took me a good 5 episodes of watching Spooks (aka MI-5) to even realize the other meaning.

edit: Oh, damn. I'm a member now. I hope I don't fuck this up.
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Yup. I actually first saw the term in Ludlum and Clancy book that i loved reading. I think Sam Fisher drops it a few times in the early Splinter Cells too.

I only became aware of the racial meaning when i lived in America for a time.
 
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Gorillaz

Member
Also good podcast Moris, the whole gentrification talk reminded me alot of how much has changed in my hometown, Atlantic City. Watching families getting pushed out and seeing businesses and Casino owners basically run wild and taking up land, always hit home to me. In a way I can see what people in NYC are going through.
 
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Crocodile

Member
Kreed said:
I actually wandered into a online chat with the bone conversation going on once. The participants were trying to figure out weaknesses in black athletes and were discussing how weak our shins are/bone density. Surprise surprise when they realized a black man was in the room and took them to task.

The truth is since these people aren't black or a minority and don't care about black people in general, the issue isn't important to begin with outside of basic levels of "curiosity". You could say black men can't swim because they eat too much chicken and they'd run with it, because they have no personal qualms about the question or answer. So they have no interest in hunting down the "real answer" like black people do since it's about us, especially when the real answer might cause more "slavery/white guilt", which is something they don't want to hear since it falls back on them.
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Yeah I see what you're saying. So, so stupid but I see what you're saying :(
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
Htown said:
Alicia Fox would blow up the week I have no access to WWE content. What did I miss?
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Pretty much her best moment ever. Drank a couple PG Steveweisers and gave a brutal wedgie to a dude.
 
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harSon

Banned
Imm0rt4l said:
If someone told you they were in spook country would you assume it was racial in context?

Because Arthur Gies has a review up that's subtitled spook country.

Harson, check your boy pls
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Personally, my first thought would be the show Spooks (MI-5 stateside). I'm a bit conflicted on this one though. Spook is pretty far down the totem pole as far as popular racial slurs are concerned. It's pretty old fashioned, and not commonly used, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know that it was a slur.

Having said that, this is a good time to plug The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Criminally underrated and underexposed.
 
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Dabanton

Member
Unsure whether this is a meltdown or some weird attempt at being edgy

Moofers said:
A CoD game where you play as cops? You can't. It would piss off all the "hood" gamers who play CoD with sick tags like "Blunt Force Trama" and then Snoop would never agree to do the voice pack. No wait, he's a total sellout, of course he'd still do it. Nevermind.
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Slayven

Member
harSon said:
Personally, my first thought would be the show Spooks (MI-5 stateside). I'm a bit conflicted on this one though. Spook is pretty far down the totem pole as far as popular racial slurs are concerned. It's pretty old fashioned, and not commonly used, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know that it was a slur.

Having said that, this is a good time to plug The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Criminally underrated and underexposed.
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it wouldn't be so lol worthy if it didn't involve Chicago.
 
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Imm0rt4l

Member
harSon said:
Personally, my first thought would be the show Spooks (MI-5 stateside). I'm a bit conflicted on this one though. Spook is pretty far down the totem pole as far as popular racial slurs are concerned. It's pretty old fashioned, and not commonly used, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know that it was a slur.

Having said that, this is a good time to plug The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Criminally underrated and underexposed.
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The summary sounds amazing
 
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Slayven

Member
Labor said:
"A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution."

Picking this up
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There was a storyline where Black Panther reveals he spies on the USA using black cleaning folks. Cause no one pays the dude scrubbing the floor any mind.
 
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Boss Riovane

Member
Patrice O'Neal was a goddamn visionary and my top 3 comedians of all time. Not enough can be said about the cat.

I have yet to listen to the podcast but I will on my day off.
 
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RedSwirl

Junior Member
Just now realizing how long I've been out of black comedy.

Crocodile said:
Is this a thing people actually say/think? How does the obvious "most Black youth don't have access to pools or large enough bodies of water to practice/learn swimming?" not come to mind before "genetic predispositions"?
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I don't think that's very obvious to most white people.
 
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ViewtifulJC

Banned
Help me settle an old black argument ya'll

Boyz N the Hood or Menace II Society?

I think Boyz might be "better", but Menace just has that raw gritty feel man
 
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Slayven

Member
J10 said:
That fight scene is terrible though. Captain America Vs. Taskmaster would look more like this.

Silat is such a nasty style.
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They don't fight like bitches. Taskmaster comes at Cap with some Ali complete with foot shuffle, Cap counters with some American Judo, and Tasky mixes it up with some Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and George "the Animal" Steel.
 
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BHZ Mayor

Member
ViewtifulJC said:
Help me settle an old black argument ya'll

Boyz N the Hood or Menace II Society?

I think Boyz might be "better", but Menace just has that raw gritty feel man
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I wanna say Boyz, but Menace has this. I love just how unnecessarily excessive it is (really every scene with a gun fired is excessive as fuck).
Don't call the FBI on me.

"Aye homie you need some help?" *10 shots for no reason* "Punk ass nigga. Come on niggas!"
 
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NipplesAndToes23

Member
harSon said:
Personally, my first thought would be the show Spooks (MI-5 stateside). I'm a bit conflicted on this one though. Spook is pretty far down the totem pole as far as popular racial slurs are concerned. It's pretty old fashioned, and not commonly used, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know that it was a slur.

Having said that, this is a good time to plug The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Criminally underrated and underexposed.
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Thanks I need a list of 70s material to view when I restart writing my blaxploitation fantasy novel.
 
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NipplesAndToes23

Member
ViewtifulJC said:
Help me settle an old black argument ya'll

Boyz N the Hood or Menace II Society?

I think Boyz might be "better", but Menace just has that raw gritty feel man
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Boyz N the Hood, but after watching Fresh a year ago that's my favorite hood movie.

Just recently watched Boyz this past semester in one of my film classes. I didn't realize how many white people have not seen it.
 
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