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I'm watching this right now

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 06:45:14 +0000

I'm watching this right now on HBO so I thought it might be interesting to plop if here as a factoid:

Jay-Z was inducted into the Hall of Fame by comedian Dave Chappelle, who praised his friend and expressed how much he means not only to music and hip hop, but Black culture. ... That to us is what hip hop is.” The 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air on HBO Nov. 20.Nov 2, 2021

Jay-Z inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Dave Chappelle

p.s. and yes, he used the N-word

The internet did something

Orion — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:10:22 +0000

In reply to Black Like We

The internet did something weird to our minds. It possibly made us more empathetic than before by putting every bit of the world on display. This is maybe why progressive politics have gone a much farther distance than they did during the other times you mentioned. But it also made us much, much more miserable for the same reason.

Those events from the 1960s or 1980s. Look at the movie Forrest Gump to see how people processed such events way back when. Forrest didn't feel ashamed for escalating many incidents in his life. What people thought of him didn't seem to phase him as much in real life as it may have it was in text. He sat on a park bench to tell his story because there was no Dagblog, no Facebook, etc. It was part of the passing scene. "That's all I got to say about that."

Compare that with reality TV or a Netflix show. Everything is demonstrated in its most gorey detail. It's no wonder millenials are so depressed.

Philadelphia cream cheese is

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:07:05 +0000

In reply to "Heil Mann", eh? I see what

Philadelphia cream cheese is white, but:

TFW when you take a sweet bite of Philly and it tastes like pure satisfaction.
— Philadelphia Cream Cheese (@phillycreamchs) November 2, 2021

Even worse, HuffPost is run

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:26:35 +0000

In reply to yeah it's a really great

Even worse, HuffPost is run by ex-Root now - feel the excess

yeah it's a really great

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:51:26 +0000

In reply to Delano Squires - that's a

yeah it's a really great essay at a lousy publication; shows you how good independent writers like this have nowhere to go, he obviously left or was forced out of The Root when they changed, now he's stuck publishing at The Blaze with loads of conservative crap

love this more sophisticated

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:11:49 +0000

In reply to Black Like We

love this more sophisticated & thought-provoking analysis of Chappelle themes:

Chappelle: "Literally, if you look at history, recently, we have bombed the masculinity out of an entire continent. We dropped two atomic bombs on fucking Japan, and they’ve been drawing Hello Kitty and shit ever since. There’s a lot of lady-boys in the wake of our bombs."
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 27, 2021

He's not rubbing it in. He's empathizing with a specific kind of masculinist anti-colonial sentiment -- and lamenting that they punished Pacquaio for anti-gay speech when he was the champion vindicating the masculinity of a conquered nation. pic.twitter.com/J85htwGzGU
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 27, 2021

I want to ask Chappelle how he reconciles the Kaepernick ad campaign with his views here, from 2017. Perhaps they were right then, but things took a turn. How does he interpret?
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 27, 2021

From the 2017 Netflix special the Age of Spin https://t.co/qpn2X955rO
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 27, 2021

(pretty good discussion follows in replies)

Delano Squires - that's a

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:05:57 +0000

In reply to No it's your type, fan of

Delano Squires - that's a read

Condoleezza Rice said she wants black kids to feel empowered & beautiful. @michaelharriot & @Toure attacked her because they think progress for black ppl depends on white ppl feeling bad. That’s blk libs vs cons in a nutshell.@WhitlockJason @theblaze https://t.co/GUlGzWCzBq
— Delano Squires (@DelanoSquires) October 27, 2021

Wow Delano Squires has 32K

rmrd0000 — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:16:57 +0000

In reply to The is evidence that

Wow Delano Squires has 32K followers.

Meaningless,

All my skinfolk ain't my kinfolk

How many followers do Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have?

The is evidence that

rmrd0000 — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:52:18 +0000

In reply to No it's your type, fan of

The is evidence that Republican members of Congress encouraged the insurrection

If they gain control of Congress, we will be moving on to an authoritarian government

Cancel culture is not the issue, this is merely criticism of statements made by Condoleeza Rice

I don't care that someone named Delano Squires disagrees with me.

He appears to have connections to Jason Whitlock and the Blaze, which tells me a lot.

He seems to be taking her side on the CRT snipe hunt

Reading history is reading history, it is not about making white children feel

History should not demand that Black children have the truth hidden from them.

The goal of the nonsensical CRT assault is to prevent teaching of things like Ruby Bridge's story and teaching things like Toni Morrison's "Beloved".

Why are you mentioning NCD and Lulu?

No it's your type, fan of

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:06:09 +0000

In reply to She said what she said, so

No it's your type, fan of "The Root" etc., who is easy game. You're a minority of a minority. She was Sec. of State.Here's a fellow who shares skin color who doesn't agree with you. He's got 32,000+ followers on Twitter and some prominent friends and you are arguing with straw men on Dagblog:

Condoleezza Rice said she wants black kids to feel empowered & beautiful. @michaelharriot & @Toure attacked her because they think progress for black ppl depends on white ppl feeling bad. That’s blk libs vs cons in a nutshell.@WhitlockJason @theblaze https://t.co/GUlGzWCzBq
— Delano Squires (@DelanoSquires) October 27, 2021

Oh to be fair, I believe that NCD and Lulu on Dagblog might agree with you that Condi is evil and needs to be canceled, but probably not for the same reasons you think that.