Be real tho, Jarod is way too smooth to get taken down that easily.

During Early Interview Week in law school (where you get matched with a law firm ideally), I found that whenever I sat down to a screening interview with a partner who was black, especially if they had a white colleague with them, I wouldn't get the job. The black lawyer usually would come at me extra hard with the…

It's also possible that she got onto the Law Review for her 2L year and was an associated editor, and then was granted a good position on the editorial board of the Law Review for her 3L year. At all the firms I interviewed as a summer associate at, I sat down with higher up partners and I also was foolish enough to…

Fair point. Forgive me of the assumption.

Full disclosure, I didn't go to an HBCU, so there were already very small chapters of the Divine 9 where I went (and where I'm drawing my conclusions) so I'll take your point re the AKAs. I'd think she was Zeta material though!

I disagree, I think it is disruptive and unbecoming. It's white supremacy when you feel the need to tone down how you're acting at brunch, but it's not white supremacy when you're trying not to stand out at work.

"She should be dressing in rags, no wonder she's poor!"

I think the condescension was messed up, but I'd lie if I said I've never been in that position. I think those people were excessively bougie but at the same time, they probably had the party so they could revel in being that way.

If they did their background research on how your typical corporate law firm works, they'd probably have Rashida playing the role of a "summer associate" which is effectively an intern. It's a role you hold the summer before your last year of law school, and its how firms 'vet' you before offering you a full…

As much as no one wants to admit it, it is pretty rare to see an AKA who looks like Molly. I'd believe she was a Delta, an S G Rho or a Zeta, but AKA's do tend to have a very particular look… for a lack of a better word.

If you're a black female corporate associate, you're in the awkward position of making a ton of money and not having very much free time. It puts Molly in the position of being the career focused breadwinner, which doesn't seem to be what she really wants for herself.

Also, you can tend to thrift quite a bit of stuff if you know how to find deals.

As a black guy whose father started teaching him to swim at the age of 2, I'd really love it if they tackled this issue a lot more in the show.

Rita is the only one of them who seems like an actual person, everyone else seems like insane caricatures. Though I'd be very interested in seeing them develop the other brown girl who works there (have they told us her name yet?).

The brick joke is one of the best high-risk, high-reward jokes I know, so thanks for the comparison.

This definitely felt like a nod to the Eric Andre Show, and the music choice only made that more clear.

I hadn't really made that connection, but yeah it is interesting to see. I get the sense that Van is probably from much better circumstances than she lives in now. A big theme in the show that bothers me is that, I think many college educated people can see how easily they could end up falling into this rut.

Was that guy ugly though? I mean, he was probably short in classy black lady-speak (which would mean anyone under 6 foot is short) but ugly? He obviously wasn't the more attractive one, but he seemed pretty normal appearance wise.

Yeah definitely, the pasta dish with chicken is the cheapest dish on the menu as anyone whose ever been dragged to a fancy restaurant they didn't want to pay for can attest to!

But I think this is why the episode worked, it took what was an obvious premise but took it past the point we would have expected. It made sense for Van to try to use her daughters pee to pass the drug test, but to boil it out of a diaper was taking it to another level. It made sense she was going to spill pee all…