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The Black Culture Thread XX

andthebeatgoeson

Junior Member
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/918431668658212865
"They are a necessary evil we use to keep the doors open."
"They're releasing the good ones that we use."
He doesn't sound like a slave owner at all...

And he stacks black people behind him just so you know he isn't racist.

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Jumped on my organized crime fandom again. Since the Godfather, Eastern Promises, The Wire, I've always been a fan of organized crime fiction. Gomorra is the latest one, a fully Italian-made TV series about a modern crime family in Italy. I was really good. Beautifully shot, well acted, complex reprehensible characters, and a good story with a lot of turns.

The one thing. The one goddamn thing I hate about crime fiction that seems especially present in Mafia fiction is the fucking anti-black racism. In this show, in particular, it was overt, intense and only served one episode. The black characters are introduced in the beginning of the episode, the boss and his soldiers call blacks "animals"; talk about how they "belong in the zoo and not with civilized humans like themselves", and in the end innocent black citizens are fucking slaughtered as revenge for the blacks of course "getting uppity/past their station".

And that's one episode and black characters never show up again. Hell, the episode is pointless and could have gotten to the change that happens at episodes end without black people involved at all. It was so fucked up and I'd be even more soured on the show as a whole if I didn't already know how this is an unfortunate trend in organized crime fiction.

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In lighter news, anyone excited for the New Mutants reveal? I'm really nterested in the idea that they're going a "horror-like" direction.
 

Skittles

Member
If we ever, uhh, learn "more" one day, certainly can't say I'd be surprised. Actually even before this thread, I always thought that Victorious was definitely pushing it when I was still a teen.



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This just puts more credence to all thpse reddit rumors
 

Slayven

Member
Thor Ragnarok, the third in the series, hit tracking this morning, and it's looking at a $100M-$110M start per industry figures with enormous strength among the four quadrants: Very strong with families, Hispanics and African Americans. A $100M start would be huge for the threequel, beating its previous chapter, Thor: The Dark World‘s, $85.7M November opening four years ago.

Brown folks do love marvel
 

Johndoey

Banned
Their homophobic ideals probably caused a drop in numbers. Did Girl scouts disappear?

Got to keep those numbers up.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/...scouts-now-allowing-girls-says-mormon-church/

This article says LDS is one of the biggest groups and they have been resistant to everything past 1960.

Yeah there numbers have been dropping yearly as far as I know. In January they opened up to allow transgender kids in the organization, so they've definitely been trying to catch up with the times to an extent. I'm not affiliated with the Scouts in anyway so I really don't know how any of this has played out.
 

Sch1sm

Member
don't have to worry too much on season 2 episode 1, it's just all set up

I mean in general, though, as it goes on, because I know there's a fair few of us in here who watch the show. Most of you are Americans, too, so. Spoiler tags are always nice. Take pity on my poor access to television in the following weeks.
 

Ross61

Member
And now we got video of Aquaman joking about raping beautiful women on GoT.
Justice League is the Trump of cape films.

We really don't want to get make it into that kind of thing. There are shitty people representing both DC and Marvel.

Survivor's Remorse getting the shaft sucks. Might hurt even worse than Carmichael Show getting cancelled.
 
That Alt Hero comic looks ridiculous. I'm disappointed that Chuck Dixon involved with that project.

The concept sounds ridiculous but it doesn't look any more ridiculous than the average comic book.

I am genuinely curious as to what their "anti-SJW" fantasy looks like in illustrated form.
 

Slayven

Member
Shy put it out of it's misery

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I almost preordered that game blindly, but they dropped that beta and I never noped out of something so fast
 

Johndoey

Banned
Shy put it out of it's misery

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I almost preordered that game blindly, but they dropped that beta and I never noped out of something so fast
Too bad how it went down, it's an enjoyable game.
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That Alt hero reminded me of those superhero porn comics a couple companies churn out.
 
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