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The Black Culture Thread XX

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Kreed

Member
Shyega got that fight scene! It's not a light saber battle but I will take it over spending the whole movie in a comma.
 
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D i Z

Member
Rey going from all white, to white and black during training, to all grey. The longer I stay on it, the more I'm not liking the paint by numbers. I guess it worked before though.
 
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Faustek

Member
Just hit me that I'm going to get annoyed at one small little detail if the industry have learned from Insecure.
No one will be sweating anymore.
Always annoyed me to see people do acrobatics lvl 876 and not sweat a drop.
 
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D i Z

Member
The options of either being a Jedi, a politician or a Bounty hunter/ smuggler or a nobody is a shit way to represent an entire galaxy.
 
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Johndoey

Banned
I'm still hoping for that Boyega/Issac led spin-off that will never happen, cause I give a damn about the rest of these characters.
 
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Rayven_king

Member
Izuna said:
Jamaican Chicken burger at McDonalds has Mayonnaise in it.

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anybody puts mayo in my burger you best expect some furniture moving

Ron-Swanson-Chair-Throw.gif
 
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Kreed

Member
RedSwirl said:
Statement from the black girl in that Dove ad: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/10/i-am-woman-racist-dove-ad-not-a-victim
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Then the first Facebook ad was released: a 13-second video clip featuring me, a white woman, and an Asian woman removing our nude tops and changing into each other. I loved it. My friends and family loved it. People congratulated me for being the first to appear, for looking fabulous, and for representing Black Girl Magic. I was proud.

Then, the full, 30-second TV commercial was released in the US, and I was over the moon again. There were seven of us in the full version, different races and ages, each of us answering the same question: “If your skin were a wash label, what would it say?”
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Dove needs to throw their Facebook ad editor in the trash then, along with everyone that approved the edit.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

Junior Member
Kreed said:
Dove needs to throw their Facebook ad editor in the trash then, along with everyone that approved the edit.
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I can see how the snapshots that are circulating the web have been misinterpreted, considering the fact that Dove has faced a backlash in the past for the exact same issue. There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified in their initial outrage. Having said that, I can also see that a lot has been left out. The narrative has been written without giving consumers context on which to base an informed opinion.

While I agree with Dove’s response to unequivocally apologise for any offense caused, they could have also defended their creative vision, and their choice to include me, an unequivocally dark-skinned black woman, as a face of their campaign. I am not just some silent victim of a mistaken beauty campaign. I am strong, I am beautiful, and I will not be erased.
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I'm not sure how i feel about this. I'm sorry that i second guess her but she acknowledges the lack of trust about Dove so that last paragraph ignores the shit show trying to defend your intentions can be. Put a black is beautiful ad campaign out and talk with your actions.

I won't hold my breath.
 
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Lightning_Roller

Banned
That moment when a run of the mill catchy, upbeat instrumental accompanied by wind instruments crawls back from the depths of your head and back to the forefront of your mind and stays there to the point that you seek the internets assistance in finding out the name.


Damn you, catchy jingles...
 
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Malyse

Member
So, I'm wondering about the correlation of Weinstein getting outted and Trump being in office. Also, proud of Terry Crews for sharing his story.
 
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D i Z

Member
In a world that's got its boot on our neck already, DD out here making sure we smell the fecal matter left over from the street cleaners.

I ain't clicking them blind links. Fuck around and see you doing Lord of the Rings in your bathtub one of these days.
 
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