Black Culture Discussion Thread

[sugafree]

We are obligated to uplift ALL our people.

That's where we can agree to disagree..

 

[sugafree]

Meh all of them got weave on in that video. Their ramblings don't even warrant a response

Exactly...

 

[trueprada]

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

Had no idea she wrote too. That's dope! Loved that show. Thanksgiving ep was pure lulz

 

[trueprada]

 

[trueprada]

Bob Motley, who died 9/14 at age 94, is the only umpire to throw Buck O'Neil out of a game!

 

[hand2handking]

1st Black Actor in 20 years wins Emmys Best Actor... and then CBS tries to cut his speech short
http://www.eonline.com/news/880690/...s-is-quickly-played-off-by-orchestra-for-time

It looks like that extra-long Nicole Kidman acceptance speech didn't leave much room for anyone else to say what they need to say at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

At least, that's what we're blaming on whatever the hell happened when Sterling K. Brown stepped to the mic to accept his much-deserved award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for his work in This Is Us when, after not much time at all, the orchestra began to play him off. Loudly.

"Before anything like this happened for your boy, I was a fan. First last and always, a fan. So my fellow nominees, I'm a fan. I love you all," he began with the eloquence we've come to expect from a Sterling K. Brown acceptance speech. "This one right here, like this one right here, when I think about it, like Walter White held this joint? dikk Whitman held this joint? I may have lost some of y'all, but you know, Google it. And 19 years ago, Detective Frank Pimbleton held this joint as impeccibly played by Andre Braugher."

"I want to thank my cast. Milo, Mandy, Justin, Kate, you are the best white TV family that a brother has ever had. Better than Mr. Drummond, better than then white folks at Webster. I love you," he continued, turning his attention to the This Is Us cast. "Susan Kelechi Watson, it is my pleasure to rep black love with you, sister. Let's keep doing it like Martin and Gina. Ron Cephas Jones, you just have to show up and the work is already there brother."

But it was when he began thanking the folks who work BTS to make the NBC his happen that things took a turn. "Our writers, you are our lifeblood," before loud orchestral music began trying to play him off. It didn't work exactly as they'd hoped. "You can play, you can play. Nobody got that loud music. Writers, I love you. You are our lifesblood. Our producers and directors, I love you. I'm good." By the end, he was standing in darkness on the stage, with the audience applauding him loudly in solidarity.

How you gonna play an Emmy winner like that, Academy?

(Note: Brown did get to finish his speech backstage while speaking to press, and was able to thank writers, producers, and creator Dan Fogelman.)

Brown beat out some pretty stiff competition for his honor, including Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), Liev Schrieber (Ray Donovan), Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Anthony Hopkins (Westworld), and his on-screen dadMilo Ventimiglia

 

[hand2handking]

 

[trueprada]

In case you forgot, Paramount wants to tell the story of the Muse brothers - black albino boys kidnapped into circus

https://buff.ly/2yk0uHG

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[trueprada]

'Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me' is an electric look at an enigmatic performer (TIFF Review)

https://buff.ly/2wEMuGt

 

[AEA18]

 

[trueprada]

'I'm Gonna Git You Sucka' Star Bernie Casey Dead at 78

https://t.co/uOGlWitUOx

 

[trueprada]

 

[trueprada]

Is Wearing the Courtroom Attire of the British a Potent Sign that Africans (and the Diaspora) are Still Colonized i…

https://t.co/CyEG2oXkKN

 

[gry60]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-c...-in-cameroons-anglophone-region-idUKKCN1BW2I8

https://qz.com/1084943/cameroons-an...nt-as-president-paul-biya-speak-at-unga-2017/

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[Nouss]

https://t.co/CyEG2oXkKN

I always found this weird and outdated, even more so for countries with a majority African ancestry. But funny nonetheless.

 

[d nice]

Black bodies, white minds.

 

[trueprada]

Following brutal beating of a black student, Cornell's Black Students United declares 'State of Emergency'

http://bit.ly/2jQWUS1

 

[trueprada]

 

[hand2handking]

Delete

 

[...So]

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[dreamer23]

Have only known a few details over the years.

the entire thread...

Wow...

 

[wavycrocket]

How Australi treated Peter Norman was utterly disgusting and disgraceful. Think they only recently apologized.

How America tested Jon Carlos and Tommie Smith was disgusting as hell. Hell, "white, western society" has treated everyone who faught for justice, equality and peace horribly.

They Jailed Ali
They Jailed Mandela
They Jailed Mandela
They Killed MLK
They Kiled Malcolm X
They Hated Rosa Parks
They Hated Barack Obama
They hate Colin Kaepernick

These are just the notable ones. Literally, thousands of people who fought for equality were either hated, jailed, ostracized, brutalized or murdered simply for standing for what is right.

Retroactively will they be remembered as heroes and their legacies whitewashed.