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The Black Culture Thread XX

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D i Z

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Confusion Illusion said:
Didn't really get into it. Other shows I enjoyed

Continuum
Eureka
Warehouse 13

Also all or most of these shows were made in Canada. We've been picking up the slack with Sci fi shows.
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Tax breaks like a mofo get those shows made.

Lightning_Roller said:
Son of a gun....it's scary movie, isn't it?
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Yes indeedy.

ShadowSwordmaster said:
I really missed Defiance.
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Malyse said:
Wasn't that a bad show tied to a bad game?
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Neither were actually bad. The show got into a groove after a while. And the game was really good before the devs switched to a jack you for your wallet system and fucked it all up with tuning to make you have to pay to even breathe. Before they got that mandate though, the game was a ton of fun. The crossover between the two was really stupid and it was really apparent that the TV people had zero respect for the game devs or their product. It was laughable how disrespectful it was and how fast it fell apart.
 
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Forearm Star

Member
Elegant Weapon said:
I recently watched it for the first time. As I watched the first season; I kept thinking/saying "this is so good", "this really is as good as people said it was" as well as generally tripping off how many talented and likable actors were in it. I didn't know Wood Harris was in it. Seeing a super young Micheal B Jordan is crazy.

My favorite season was the 4th season, it's great. I'm probably going to watch the series over again soon. Definitely go ahead and watch the Wire.
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So weird that no one else had an opinion on this.

D i Z said:
Speaking of the Wire, it's been all over HBO today nonstop. They are running through the first season right now. Not sure if they'll do the others throughout the week yet. I believe it's all on HBO Go anyway.
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That's what brought this on. I saw the marathon running and thought about giving letting it rock.

Most of the people I know who've watch it also claim seinfield and curb your enthusiasm are the best shows ever, and praise the Wire for is "accurate dipiction of street life." Just came off suspect.

I'll give it a go.
 
Phoenix RISING

Phoenix RISING

Banned
Mrs. Manky said:
Police Defense Force will never win against White Woman Defense Force.

Also, that Pumpkin Spice Tampon is a fake.
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Jim Crow dictates that they're supposed to be one-and-the-same. Gotta protect white women's purity from savage black sexuality.

That's why stories like these are so interesting now that we have so much video.
 
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Dereck

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Posting this again because you see a new reaction every time it loops.

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Faustek

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Where's the evidence saying it isn't?

Phoenix RISING said:
Jim Crow dictates that they're supposed to be one-and-the-same. Gotta protect white women's purity from savage black sexuality.

That's why stories like these are so interesting now that we have so much video.
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That has been really frustrating. if GG thought us anything is that when white women speak up against it they get the threats of different types of violence that the "white correct" side is trying to "protect" them from.
And the "moderate", the "booth sides", the "logical", the fucking asshole has still not been dissuaded from them.
 
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Professor Beef

Banned
ShadowSwordmaster said:
Where is this from? I keep seeing the face in different places on GAF and other places.
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Michael Jordan is infamous for denying Chamillionaire a photo op and autograph because MJ, and I quote, "ain't taking a picture with no nigga." I'm not sure why The Coli chose that pic though, but it's one of the more famous MJ smileys to use aside from
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Faustek

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Tbh that is the best quality to have if you wanna survive everything 😁

Anyone else coming to Antarctica? Already winter there so the nuclear one won't seem as harsh.
 
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Skittles

Member
Yooo, Kiara the Brave is the most wild shit i've ever seen. Yall needa watch this shit. It's on amazon video for free for prime
 
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excelsiorlef

Member
Jesus the level of "discourse" in threads like that one about not wanting to go out because of experiences racism are exactly why I don't bother talking about my personal life, be it as a trans woman or whatever, much.
 
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Johndoey

Banned
Federal government has long ignored white supremacist threats, critics say

On June 3, 2014, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. restarted a long-dormant domestic terrorism task force created after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. A former Ku Klux Klan leader had just murdered three people near a Jewish Community Center in a Kansas City suburb and yelled ”Heil Hitler" as police took him into custody.

For too long, Holder said, the federal government had narrowly focused on Islamist threats and had lost sight of the ”continued danger we face" from violent far-right extremists.

But three years later, it is unclear what, if anything the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee has done, despite expectations that its reanimation would better focus efforts throughout the Justice Department to disrupt and detect plots in a more centralized way, as was already being done by the department and FBI when it came to hunting Islamist terrorists.
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”The federal government has taken their eye off the ball, and it has allowed the far right to fester and grow for decades," said Heidi Beirich, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project and runs its Hatewatch blog. ”They are a real threat that has been underestimated."
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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the domestic terrorism task force was due to convene for a regular meeting. It never happened, and the group remained dormant for more than a decade.
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I ran Congress' 9/11 investigation. The intelligence committees today can't handle Russia.

Since the Justice Department named a special investigator, Robert Mueller, to handle the government's official inquiry into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, the weight of public expectation has largely fallen on his shoulders. While the two congressional panels, the Senate and House intelligence committees, continue to hold hearings and question witnesses, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, both are led by members of a party that is, with the exception of Charlottesville, skittish about criticizing the president. The greatest hope for an aggressive and impartial inquest seems to lie with Mueller, whose bosses have either recused themselves from the Russia probe (as Attorney General Jeff Sessions did) or volunteered that he would have autonomy to follow the facts wherever they led (as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did). The pressure, it seems, is off Congress to act as the primary body holding the president to account.
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This is a dangerous sentiment. The two intelligence committees should act as if their investigations will be the final (and possibly the only) ones — because they may be. President Trump has worked hard to undermine Mueller's effort, not only berating it as beholden to a partisan ”hoax" but also belittling Sessions on Twitter in a transparent attempt to force the attorney general's resignation. That way, the president could replace him with an appointee who would stymie Mueller's work. A central role for Congress is the only real way to guarantee a full report, with conclusions and recommendations, for the American people.
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...Right now, the Senate has 38 staffers and the House has 31 devoted to the intelligence committees, with budgets for the 115th Congress of $11 million and $12.1 million, respectively. Those personnel and funds are intended to cover all the legislative and oversight work of the intelligence committees, including the Russia investigation. Early in the inquiry, the Senate committee reportedly had only seven staffers working on the probe. It needs many more.

To complete the Russia investigation, the committees need independent staff members who are solely dedicated to this topic: forensic accountants and specialists in international law, financial crimes, counterintelligence investigations, and cybersecurity and coding. Those devoted to Russian meddling should not be regular committee staffers on overtime, unfamiliar with the tasks unique to the Russian inquiry.

After more than six months of separate activity, it is probably too late to merge the current congressional committees. It is not too late, however, to create independent, experienced and substantially larger staffs capable of fulfilling the committees' responsibilities, particularly in a post-Mueller era.
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