I’m not gonna lie, I watched it like 3 days ago. Still entertaining.

It’s relatively easy to control after treatment, but before then, WOW can it be terrible.

Ha! I meant that take was nonsense. CoR had its issues, but it had a decent amount of redeeming qualities unlike that steaming pile of a hot take from White. And there was some truly fantastic world building in CoR. I stand behind it!

“If they’re going to come up with some excuse for on the night of this murder he was home eating pizza with us, the community, the victims’ families and the State Attorney’s Office have a right to hear that,” Warren said.

One of my co-workers saw Get Out recently and thought it was just okay. But he did say that part of his reaction was because he was so late in watching it and had heard too much feedback about what he was supposed to take from it.

We can accept a negative review from a nonblack film critic as long as the words back up the grade.

I do love The Chronicle of Riddick, but I have to agree. That was some nonsense.

I’m fortunate to have very generous remote work rules, but I actually hate working from home. Most of my co-workers (including my boss who works from home almost exclusively) think I’m nuts. I live in a smaller apartment and I want all of that square footage to be about home comfort and goodness. I end up playing with…

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I don’t buy that one can claim to be a true liberator while solely seizing (and consolidating) power from the seat of a throne. Whatever kind of ruler T’Chaka or T’Challa was/is, whatever mistakes they make it doesn’t change that for me.

My second viewing was in a fairly diverse neighborhood with an overwhelmingly black/African audience, and we were pretty rapt throughout the entire movie—so many times you could have heard a pin drop because we were in the experience. I loved that intensity.

That’s not what I’m talking about—his aspirations were to use his position as king (which arguably he rightfully acquired) to be the head of a Wakandan Empire, not a consortium or council or parliament of liberation. He wanted that throne to wage war alongside liberation.

Yeah, I’m with this. Killmonger was wrong for all the right reasons. His liberation motivations for me were overshadowed by his thirst for power. Yes, he wanted to square the world’s wrongs...with himself as emperor. That’s not justice, that’s supremacy. And I don’t trust his arbitrary criteria for global equity,…

Yes, great examination! I was hearing N’Jobu on that point. The main reason I remembered that time-frame was because I had recently watched Let It Fall: LA 1982-1992 that got into the factors that led up to the L.A. Riots. I was mad after watching, but it dug deep into that time that I agree wasn’t too far removed…

That was a great exhibit they did for Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum. I’m amused by all the pearl-clutching over the beheading paintings. That was actually one of the first pieces I saw of his in a museum in Raleigh and it’s a stunning piece of art.

What struck me as much as the great content and intimacy of the essay is how effectively and beautifully written it is. You can see the playwright in those words.

It’s essentially the very least thing she could do as a responsible public servant at this moment.

I’m really looking forward to this book. Silver Sparrow was a book I didn’t think I would like, but it was fantastic and explored her characters in these lovely and unexpected ways. And if you get a chance to check out one of her readings, do it! She’s a lot of fun.

So true! They told me to get on it.

I think that’s a mostly true conclusion in modern US society, but not always. Class and education are significant factors. Mainstream attractiveness too. I’ve seen geography play a part having lived all over the US. All that is playing an increasingly more prominent role in the mix.