The dialogue killed me at times. Like, one can describe “being woke” in terms other than saying “woke.” Mostly, I couldn’t tell if it was the dialogue being a problem or the actors not being able to sell it/make it their own

Our good friend Katie Bakes has compiled an oral history of the 1997 Knicks-Heat brawl. It’s a reminder of an era when bad basketball was good. [The Ringer]

Brother I am SO SORRY. Lean on me. I got you.

“As a government employee, I’m granted health care. And I see firsthand that for one, to have health care, you need to have jobs, so therefore we need to continue to cultivate this environment so that we’re given the opportunities to have healthcare as well as jobs for all Americans worldwide,” she explained.

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If I was looking to injure the other team’s star player who I know has a bad ankle, sticking a foot underneath him on a jump shot seems like a pretty obvious way to go. So I doubt many people are going to believe any assertion that it wasn’t intentional.

I am not a doctor or anything but he gets KO’d, then goes home and is nauseous and delirious? Sounds like the poor kid got concussed. That can take you to some very, very dark places. Terrible. Just terrible.

he’s tried desperately to be known as his real name, Shad Moss. He even did an ‘official name change’ a la Diddy, but he’s not Diddy, so nobody cared.

Yes! I’ve been in Joelle’s shoes. It makes you wonder if people don’t see you because you’re dark skinned but they’ll pay lip service to wanting a dark skinned woman. And I’m like, medium-dark. Like middle of the pack black.

Since it seemed like Sam and Coco were rediscovering their friendship in the end, I hope it goes into how the three of them would potentially get along. Coco’s all about self-preservation while Joelle is much more activist-minded like Sam. But both Joelle and Coco are dark skinned women and I wonder how they could…

True.

Joelle deserved more from this first season.

Only the main character in Dope was obsessed with 90s hip hop culture. The rest of his friends were just average kids. I didn’t think it was bad at all. It was a coming of age movie, and the beginning of a success story about a black guy who doesn’t become a product of his environment.

Joelle is my favorite and she deserves way more than Reggie.

I think the only thing worse than being called Lil Bow Wow when your 29 is no longer being called Lil Bow Wow when you turn 30.

excellent point, lol. I was going to respond that the show isn’t that different from the movie in terms of the criticisms presented. More than one of my friends were upset with how the movie treated the interracial relationship.

The movie has a lot of meh executed great ideas but the show waste so much of its time on things that aren’t important. It also reduces some characters to props. Kurt is a legit villain in the movie. In the show he only shows up to say something offensive once an episode. I love the movie despite it’s flaws but the…

This is interesting (acknowledging that I skimmed around potential spoilers). I really support Dear White People, both the show and the movie. But I’m not sure I want to watch it. A lot like Masters of None and Dope (I’ve heard, but haven’t seen it) the commentary is essentially about POC experiences contrasted with…