There’s a fantastic article in today’s WaPo about how the KenCen has really moved away from recognizing artists in favor of commercialized entertainment. As much as I love the diversity of this year’s class, I’d really prefer for the KenCen to go back to rewarding artists, not commercial successes.

Oh, I should probably summarize this and the gist I get from his answers farther down the threads: There was diversity, but not much among the group Nolan was interested in (anglophones engaged in combat). While it’s possible that the background and support characters could have been more diverse, it would have taken…

it is a well known fact that there was no color until the 1960s...

Glad I’m greyed out while the dumbest among us get replies and promotion.

Let’s check in with r/askhistorians:

Par for the course for Sphincter News

Kinja sites are fast becoming parodies of themselves...

It’s OK, the DVD release will splice in Cuba Gooding, Jr’s several action-packed minutes from Pearl Harbor.

This sounds similar to the founding of Liberia, but in north America.

Those reparations come in the form of “New Colonia,” a sovereign black nation made up of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama—states that are typically synonymous with Jim Crow and vicious racial violence.

It’s interesting, and possibly a bit indulgent, that the show doesn’t seem to be using Liberia as the inspiration or setting. I’m guessing that it’s a mix of not wanting to bring up Liberia’s difficult history and current status and the same reason the new country wasn’t placed on the western frontier, reticence to…

just rehash centuries of black trauma

This is close to becoming 500 days of “Confederate”.

When I was younger, I would have loved to have been able to attend something like this.

If this is the Coachella of political conventions, then what is the Burning Man equivalent?

Will there also be a how-to special explaining why we’re supposed to care about a royal?

Ya, I thought her treatment of Gotz went beyond the usual, hahaha you’re a bullshit artist.

StuGotz army!

Its the only “sports” show I can watch/listen to at this point. I love that through the show and Highly Questionable later in the day we have seen the careers boosted for Bomani Jones, Pablo Torre, Sarah Spain, Mina Kimes, Clinton Yates, Domonique Foxworth and others...basically all the thoughtful, informed writers…

It’s the natural path we’ve seen them heading down since the whole mess with Sanders campaigning for Heath Mello.