The UFC glovesIssa in 20 years...
The Scandal DVD
The CryMJ with the septum ring and fedora?
Wait, is that Rampage Jackson's body??
Issa Rae's new show is black male bashing propaganda
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The Scandal DVD
The CryMJ with the septum ring and fedora?
Wait, is that Rampage Jackson's body??
That's a question better answered by the creators of Black media, your writing partner would be a great person to ask.
Who is forcing Black creators to add people they don't interact with into their art for mass appeal and why don't those Black creators simply refuse to compromise their art by adding these characters?
AkilinaArina
All Star
It isn't the typical humor that black people use in film.
AkilinaArina
All Star
It was made clear that this wasn't the first time his friend had said it to him, he didn't like it but he didn't say anything about it. Not only is he broke, homeless, and a semi deadbeat but he's also a coward.
Come on man positive black professional males don't exist. My self and all these black engineers (young and old) I know in Dallas married to black women (contrary to media they ain't all exoticals and high yella) don't exits and are just a figment of my imagination.
Off one ep this show is the end all be allExactly.
The "this is the everyday routine" for black males is laughably absurd. The irony is that Issa Rae herself was raised in a two parent household with a BLACK father who was a Doctor. He even moved their family back to his home country in Senegal with one of the purposes of passing down to his children their heritage. Her boyfriend is a black college graduate. The stereotypes presented in this first episode of the lazy, underperforming black male and the long suffering black women who "lower their standards" to be with them is proven wrong by the creators OWN life story. As of right now, you've got TWO television shows that I can think of that dont go out of their way to portray black men as interracial dating, thuggish, c00nish losers, unable and unwilling to become successful within society. Survivors Remorse and Black-ish.
Atlanta gets a pass because even though the three main male black characters are struggling and in poverty, the show goes to great lengths to add layers to them that both explain their situations, mindsets, and set forth a series of opportunities and situations for them to grow and mature. Atlanta does in 30 minutes what Insecure failed to do in an hour. There are no layers to either of the black men depicted in the pilot episodes. They simply exist to feed the notion that black women are better off without them, and that the larger African American community are better off without them. They are parasites who leech off the good will, love, and support of black women. Again I ask, there is not ONE black man in this meta world created by Issa Rae that isn't out to pump and dump? That manges to gain steady employment? That can even make it through a goddamn job interview without looking like a fool.
I was actually thinking about writing a review and putting all of my thoughts regarding these offensive and limiting portrayals of black men in television, and how it all culminates with this show and how I feel it's the final straw for the "fukk Black men" coalition. But I'm not even sure if it's worth my time or words....
Richard Wright
Living Legend
You're right. This show is the artistic equivalent of Charles Barkeley. Its no longer ok for whites to openly make fun of black people so they give Issa a show to do it instead.
Damn, all this shyt did was make me upset. I know the whole point of this thing is to make me say fukk it, like "Jamaal", and date "others" over black women.
No one is suggesting that Black professional males don't exist, what IS being suggested is that simply existing doesn't mean you should automatically be included in someone else's story.
Even though I got why, its still the only thing I didn't like.
Also....
PB should've beat that asian dude ass for using it all reckless 
Richard Wright
Living Legend
Ok. Well, what if you don't exist in anyone else's story? What if you are excluded from media narrative entirely?
Yes. We're aware of all of that. It's an underdog story. We don't know what led him here and we're not sure why he's in such a state we will find out though. I personally wish his character started out a success coming back home.
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
The whole point of that scene was white dudes think they have n-word privileges around their "nerdy" black friends but wouldn't dare say it in front of a group of "real nikkas."
The show goes out of its way to emphasize that point later in the episode.
need to be careful with this argument.
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
. You're obviously not familiar with 
Off one ep this show is the end all be all
Did you not see the preview for the "coming weeks"? It was the exact same thing. The black boyfriend being a lazy freeloader and her complaining about not wanting to waste her life sitting on the couch with him