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The Black Culture Thread

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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
The Faceless Master said:
damn, those toys make me feel old...

i was rocking gijoes, transformers, centurions and gobots!

and a thundercats sword. couldn't tell me 'nothin when i had that!
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The sword of omens? Hell yeah! That was my favorite toy as a young one. It had some weird ass edges though.
 
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perfectnight

Banned
The Faceless Master said:
oh man, i forgot about my legos!

day 1: build what's on the box

day 2: modified designs

day 3+: all sorts of random awesomeness
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My legos experience was something like this:

day 1: the fuck is this?

day 2: the fuck is that?

day 3: start throwing legos at my brother until mom took them away.

She bought us legos like 5 times and it was the same exact result each time. We were too addicted to the N64 to really give a shit about the legos lol.

We also had a bunch of RC cars that we never bothered to set up. Fucking video games, man.
 
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Slayven

Member
Kind of get frustrated with explaining something? But the other person doesn't get it because their life experiences?

Insured by MWs Natural. I understand bro.
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Slayven said:
Kind of get frustrated with explaining something? But the other person doesn't get it because their life experiences?

Insured by MWs Natural. I understand bro.
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I had a dude tell me he didn't understand what it meant to be black, does that count?
 
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Black Republican

Member
gotta love hollywood pretends to be liberal but wont promote films like red tails, its not like its on some malcom x ish heh.

oh well cant wait to see it whenever it hits the UK
 
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Good Job Bob

Member
Parallax said:
wow. its getting heated as fuck this morning....
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Necromanti

Member
Slayven said:
Talking bout the bus thread. We are about due for a 101 discussion on race.
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All "race" threads are so fucking exhausting. You can only argue the same thing so many times before you get sick of it. I feel like the OT is mentally fatiguing me more and more lately.
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Necromanti said:
All "race" threads are so fucking exhausting. You can only argue the same thing so many times before you get sick of it. I feel like the OT is mentally fatiguing me more and more lately.
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i feel that. arguing in circles with saty is making my head hurt
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Usually dreams and himuro did this sort of thing... I don't give a damn most days anymore. But the whole white plight thing just makes my eyes roll dangerously hard
masud said:
VR troopers > Power Rangers

Come at me
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You're not wrong

But you're not right either...
 
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masud

Banned
Naw I'm just kidding, didn't really watch either of them. Power Rangers was the first major kids fad that I was too old for, so I hated on it intensely. I was all about gangster rap and scrambled porn by then.
 
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Kreed

Member
SmokyDave said:
I was pleasantly blazed and watching some old Tom 'n' Jerry cartoons when an interesting thought struck me. Thought you chaps might find the cultural difference interesting.

Basically, when I was a kid and I watched T&J, I always assumed that the black housekeeper was actually the owner of the house. It never struck me that she might in fact be hired help. I had no concept of how unlikely it was that a black woman in the South would own a huge house like that and nor did I have any experience of the mammy stereotype. It's only when I watched it as an adult that I clicked that she was the housekeeper.

Anyway, just thought you chaps might find that interesting. Stereotypes, and regional ignorance thereof comes up often on GAF.
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Really late on this, but was this consistent in every cartoon featuring Mammy Two-Shoes? Because I remember at least one episode where she's sleeping in the bed room of the house late at night and Tom and Jerry are trying not to wake her up (Tom was intoxicated). No one else is in the house, just Mammy Two Shoes.

And then there's an episode where she is playing cards with friends late at night and gets a call that Tom is having a party at the house, so she comes home early to stop Tom.

Neither of these are consistent with her just being the house keeper.
 
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PhoenixDark

Banned
Black Republican said:
gotta love hollywood pretends to be liberal but wont promote films like red tails, its not like its on some malcom x ish heh.

oh well cant wait to see it whenever it hits the UK
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Hollywood had always been prejudice on one thing or another. But in this case let's not forget white people dominate box offices and overall they prefer and are used to seeing white casts in films and television.

I'm not going to defend Red Tails as it looks horrible and has no bankable stars though
 
The Faceless Master

The Faceless Master

Member
Kreed said:
Really late on this, but was this consistent in every cartoon featuring Mammy Two-Shoes? Because I remember at least one episode where she's sleeping in the bed room of the house late at night and Tom and Jerry are trying not to wake her up (Tom was intoxicated). No one else is in the house, just Mammy Two Shoes.

And then there's an episode where she is playing cards with friends late at night and gets a call that Tom is having a party at the house, so she comes home early to stop Tom.

Neither of these are consistent with her just being the house keeper.
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when the house owners are away, mammy will play!
 
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