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Voices by Jaden Smith, Tavi Gevinson, Desus & Mero (yeaaaah buddy), Amandla Stenberg, Willow Smith, Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, and Jason Schwartzman.

HotCanadianChick posted:

He just did an interview today with NPR about his new article on racism being the force that got Trump elected: http://www.npr.org/2017/09/07/549098169/ta-nehisi-coates-on-obama-and-trumps-election

Dexo posted:

Brand Status: Brolic

AggressivelyStupid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwc6fTnsdBI

Koalas March posted:

This should probably go in the OP

http://www.theroot.com/five-rules-for-black-cookouts-and-life-1798706295

Phone posting so no quotes but drat

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Nunna Yorz
Michael Harriot
9/01/17 1:33pm
I was invited to a white cookout once. Not a mixed one, an almost all white one except for me and a girl I was crushing on at the time. It was her adoptive family. There was no music. There was no spades. The potato salad didn’t have raisins in it, but the pasta salad did have nuts and berries. And the chicken... The chicken was the worst. They BOILED each piece, and THEN put it on the grill, with no seasoning, and just barbecue sauce on it. I only ate hotdogs that day.

sean10mm posted:

I can top that. Brace for MAXIMUM WHITENESS

A cookout centered on boiled baby back ribs that never hit the grill at all, covered in Heinz Chili Sauce instead of real BBQ sauce.

sean10mm posted:

I can top that. Brace for MAXIMUM WHITENESS

A cookout centered on boiled baby back ribs that never hit the grill at all, covered in Heinz Chili Sauce instead of real BBQ sauce.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

Wait, boiling meat is a thing?

I thought that was a joke about white northerners doing unholy things with their food like putting sugar on grits.

Gaunab posted:

What kind of monster would ruin potato salad by putting raisins in it?

sean10mm posted:

biracial bear for uncut posted:

Wait, boiling meat is a thing?

I thought that was a joke about white northerners doing unholy things with their food like putting sugar on grits.

Edit: Assuming they even know what grits are.

silvergoose posted:

Brits do it a lot. Actually there's some ways to cook ribs chinese-style where you boil shortribs and then do stuff to them, but that's a little different.

sean10mm posted:

I can top that. Brace for MAXIMUM WHITENESS

A cookout centered on boiled baby back ribs that never hit the grill at all, covered in Heinz Chili Sauce instead of real BBQ sauce.

Push El Burrito posted:

Here I thought I was maximum whiteness but drat not even a jar of lovely Kraft barbecue sauce on some ribs?

And there's some people that will boil ribs a little because it softens them up for the grill. Usually you put, like, spice in the water to make it more of a broth you're boiling it in. Boiled chicken is just... what is that?

Dexo posted:

I'll Boil chicken out of sheer laziness if I'm going to be shredding it for like a chicken salad or something. Boil them in some salt water.

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John David Washington (the son of Denzel Washington) will star in the adaptation of a memoir by an African American police detective who infiltrated the KKK.
Lee will direct and produce the movie with Peele producing via his banner Monkeypaw Productions.

Klansman tells the story of Ron Stallworth, a detective in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who in 1978 answered an ad in the local newspaper seeking new Klan members. He not only gained membership, but rose through the ranks to become the head of the local chapter. Stallworth, who is black, was able to gather all sorts of intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone or via other forms of correspondence but sent a white fellow officer in his place for any in-person meetings. During his undercover work, Stallworth managed to sabotage several cross-burnings and other activities of the notorious hate group.

Bust Rodd posted:

Hey so the new South Park video game adjusts your character's skin color based on your chosen difficulty.

Poly posted an article today where they make their little South Park dude and there harder the game is set, the darker your character's skin color becomes. The game explains that your skin color determines how other people in he game will treat you when they first meet you.

So basically reddit is screaming bloody murder and the official response so far has been "LoL if this bothers you then you are probably a racist."

zxqv8 posted:

Mr Interweb posted:

This may have posted, but it absolutely deserves to be posted again:

https://twitter.com/Choco_Optimus/status/906686851079180288

Holeeeee poo poo, this dude is loving AWESOME.

Push El Burrito posted:

Didn't they make a big thing about Cartman being an rear end in a top hat while in the background Stan was legitimately having confused thoughts about gender?

The last game was good. Hopefully this one will be too. They can miss the mark mostly but sometimes they land it so well like they did with the George Zimmerman episode.

Forceholy posted:

The last game has this as a remark. When you chose a thief and had darker skin, Carman would remark that your character looks dark enough to be a thief.

Morby posted:

Also there's a whole class called "Jew".

KirbyKhan posted:

That is one hell of a context, I don't know how else to describe this series. I played the first game about halfway through. I kinda like it, this sequel video game making the white child easy mode, the brown child medium, and the black child hard mode.

It makes a fantastic headline, I do feel like I'm playing life on medium right now.

Morby posted:

I beat the game. I won't spoil it for you, but with Matt Stone actually being Jewish the Jew jokes don't rub me the same way. He has a connection to the culture. It's not some rear end in a top hat making Jew jokes just because. I do not trust them to do that with this game with regard to race.

Panfilo posted:

How many other games out there use racial privilege as a difficulty slider?

Panfilo posted:

How many other games out there use racial privilege as a difficulty slider?

"Straight White Male: The lowest difficulty setting there is" posted:

So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word “privilege,” in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it?

Being a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it:

Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?

Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.

This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.

Now, once you’ve selected the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference. Initially the computer will tell you how many points you get and how they are divided up. If you start with 25 points, and your dump stat is wealth, well, then you may be kind of screwed. If you start with 250 points and your dump stat is charisma, well, then you’re probably fine. Be aware the computer makes it difficult to start with more than 30 points; people on higher difficulty settings generally start with even fewer than that.

As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.

Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.

You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore.

And maybe at this point you say, hey, I like a challenge, I want to change my difficulty setting! Well, here’s the thing: In The Real World, you don’t unlock any rewards or receive any benefit for playing on higher difficulty settings. The game is just harder, and potentially a lot less fun.