Johnny Kilroy
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I don’t see how this show is any worse than calling yourself a descendent of slaves 
Wife is fine as hell tho
Wife is fine as hell tho
Jordan Peele-esque mini series “Them”
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Thats my thing, im tired of seeing black victims. Rather see a black spirit terrorizing racist
lol. i disagree with Tyler Perry. he has a lane that caters to older black women. my mom be laughing her a$$ off at all that madea stuff and i look at her like
but yea thank god we had spike & john singleton
I’m watching it now and I will say that I am finding useful educational themes. The issue is that in this society we gloss over white depravity too much. There’s too much hidden from history books, about the true nature of what was done to us. So much so that people do not recognize nor respect the African American Holocaust. People think our suffering ended with slavery or just a few isolated events of tragedies. But what they don’t see is the daily unending terror our people have endured unending.
I want these depictions of whites. I want them to be uncomfortable. I want people faced with how nasty and evil white women are and how threatened they are by blk women and black motherhood. I want white male terrorism shown unflinchingly so we can stop celebrating these a$$holes as heroes like Christopher Columbus.
Today we literally have school districts fighting to portray slavery as a mild practice of servitude, and people outright denying that any of it even happened, and even more people are willfully clueless.
I just keep thinking this. If the mere depiction of one short snapshot of our history is enough to make us recoil, then how did those who lived through this era day in and day out survive it. I don’t want those stories to not be told. And another part of me thinks it’s smart to contextualize these daily violations within a horror movie genre, because that’s exactly what it is. And the scariest part is that this was and is reality.
At the very least, I’m only on episode 2 and there’s already several teachable moments that people might pretend to be aware of but really have no clue about.
1.) Redlining and how African American housing crisis
2.) Experimentation on blks-sure people know about the Tuskegee Experiments but people don’t know about entire black communities being gassed in this country.
Im gonna dedicate a thread just to that shyt.
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
Something I learned about a few days ago . A declassified US Military Operation from the 1950s where they tested the potential use of Mosquitoes as weapons by releasing some in black communities
Black Savannahians Haunted by Memory of Mosquito Experiment
Something I learned about a few days ago . A declassified US Military Operation from the 1950s where they tested the potential use of Mosquitoes as weapons by releasing some in black communities
Black Savannahians Haunted by Memory of Mosquito Experiment
Yep. It’s shyt like this. Like not knowing black and Puerto Rican soldiers were experimented on with mustard gas to determine their viability for use as human shields for white soldiers.
So many more.
watched 2 episodes, formulaic tropefest...not for me.
I would be there day one
LightSkinYeshua
All Star
This shyt trash
Laidbackman
All Star
I saw Episode 1 the other day, and wasn't all that crazy about it. I hope the rest of the episodes aren't like this. 'Get Out' was good and thought provoking, but I wouldn't want to see it every week. But at least the movie had a good ending. Episode 1 of 'Them" clearly didn't.
They just had to kill their pet dog, and I knew it was coming
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Laidbackman
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I watched episodes 2, 3, and 4 back to back over the weekend. I wounded up having weird nightmares. I probably won't do that again. Drinking and eating a little too much that night before going to bed, probably helped those nightmares. Anyway, it felt like I was watching past racism mixed with present racism.
If anything, you'd think Episode 1 would have gave me a nightmare when I first watched this show a few weeks ago, because I actually had a strange dream like Episode 1 about a year ago. I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler, but it was the scene where all their White neighbors surrounded their house forming a circle. I had a dream that my old neighborhood had suddenly turned all White, leaving only two of my Black neighbors living there, who lived across the street from one another. My old neighborhood did get gentrified, and there are mostly Mexicans living there now. but it haven't gotten this bad yet. Sometimes, it feels like it will, which probably prompted this dream in the first place. At any rate, in my dream, we were at a party down in one of our remaining neighbors basement. Another weird thing was, a lot of my cousins were at this party in this basement...cousins who didn't even know the Black neighbors having this party, which was a little further up the street from us. I forgot what happened, but the party had to suddenly end. Btw, these neighbors had a walk-in basement in the backyard with steps. When we were leaving the party, going up the basement steps to the backyard, the first thing we saw was a bunch of White people, men and women, and they had surrounded the whole backyard. But they all looked friendly, even though you knew they were messing with us like in Episode 1. But in this dream, they had at least a little respect, because in real life this use to be the hood. I remember many backyard cookouts turning into fights back in the day. Anyway, these White folks in this dream looked just like those White folks in Episode 1, when they had surrounded the Black family's house.
Personally, I think we're still a little too deep in this psychological race war to be having a mini series on it. If I watch this show again, and I'll probably will, I won't try to binge watch it. I'm kinda interest in where those ghost and demons that keep popping up, fit in.
If anything, you'd think Episode 1 would have gave me a nightmare when I first watched this show a few weeks ago, because I actually had a strange dream like Episode 1 about a year ago. I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler, but it was the scene where all their White neighbors surrounded their house forming a circle. I had a dream that my old neighborhood had suddenly turned all White, leaving only two of my Black neighbors living there, who lived across the street from one another. My old neighborhood did get gentrified, and there are mostly Mexicans living there now. but it haven't gotten this bad yet. Sometimes, it feels like it will, which probably prompted this dream in the first place. At any rate, in my dream, we were at a party down in one of our remaining neighbors basement. Another weird thing was, a lot of my cousins were at this party in this basement...cousins who didn't even know the Black neighbors having this party, which was a little further up the street from us. I forgot what happened, but the party had to suddenly end. Btw, these neighbors had a walk-in basement in the backyard with steps. When we were leaving the party, going up the basement steps to the backyard, the first thing we saw was a bunch of White people, men and women, and they had surrounded the whole backyard. But they all looked friendly, even though you knew they were messing with us like in Episode 1. But in this dream, they had at least a little respect, because in real life this use to be the hood. I remember many backyard cookouts turning into fights back in the day. Anyway, these White folks in this dream looked just like those White folks in Episode 1, when they had surrounded the Black family's house.
Personally, I think we're still a little too deep in this psychological race war to be having a mini series on it. If I watch this show again, and I'll probably will, I won't try to binge watch it. I'm kinda interest in where those ghost and demons that keep popping up, fit in.
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Playaz Eyez
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Being racist has to be exhausting for these cave dwelling dog fukkers.