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The Black Culture Thread |OT9| More Priest, Less Hudlin

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jWILL253

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Alright. Decided to start watching The Boondocks again from the beginning..never really got past about mid second season. Where do I stop? Heard this current (?) season it's a bag of unclean rectums..
 
So I bought TEW.

it was $25.

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EDIT: It's for PC ishi.

People got on my shit when I gave it a 3.5 out of 5. It's a decent first shot, but it's not the messiah come back to heal us.

Is Dragon Age Inquisition worth a buy if you've never played any of the previous games? Especially as far as gameplay.

Honestly, Dragon Age Inquisition feels like it all but ignores the first two, with the exception of big moment.
 

Mumei

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The Pain of the Watermelon Joke

Jacqueline Woodson wrote an op-ed piece about that stupid racist joke Handler made at the National Book Awards. It's worth reading.

As I walked away from the stage to a standing ovation after my acceptance speech, it was the last place in the world I thought I’d hear the watermelon joke — directed by the M.C., Daniel Handler, at me. “Jackie’s allergic to watermelon,” he said. “Just let that sink in your mind.” Daniel and I have been friends for years. Last summer, at his home on Cape Cod, he served watermelon soup and I let him know I was allergic to the fruit. I was astonished when he brought this up before the National Book Award audience — in the form of a wink-nudge joke about being black.

In a few short words, the audience and I were asked to take a step back from everything I’ve ever written, a step back from the power and meaning of the National Book Award, lest we forget, lest I forget, where I came from. By making light of that deep and troubled history, he showed that he believed we were at a point where we could laugh about it all. His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance.
 
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