Lawrence Otis Graham, Best Selling Author of Our Kind of People, dies at 58

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They cast two very good looking people.

Now, Let's take bets on what super high achieving backstory they are going to have to write for Morris Chestnut.

I say medicine. Dean of a top Medical School

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Chestnut (who will also continue on Fox’s The Resident) stars as Raymond Dupont, a top executive at a food conglomerate who has been struggling to revive the company after his white business partner’s mismanagement.

May be Haitian.

 

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May be Haitian.

Food conglomerate?


"Why should the AA characters have all the fun?"

Signed Reginald Louis

hehehehe

I lost the origin story bet about Chestnut

 

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This is my last update on this show. Officially not interested.



And why it look like her skin lightened?

 

[Mtt]

This is my last update on this show. Officially not interested.



And why it look like her skin lightened?

Wow.its to the point of what's the point of using the book as an adaptation of that particular elite group seems like typical storyline . It's better the folks doing this story stands on it's own ground minus the book to avoid constant comparison and that way it will lessen the criticism.Must Be make up ?

 

[saturn7]

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class



It's a long video but is OKOP in a nutshell.

- Debutante Cotillions
- The Girlfriends
- John Johnson
- Earl dikkerson
- Collier Heights
- Westchester Co., NY
- Oak Bluffs
- Percy Julian
- St. Clare Drake
- Howard University
- Omega Psi Phi
- Episcopal Church


Some of it is very cringe. For the first time, I can see why some black folks have reservations about this group. There was certainly a real element of detachment among some members of the OKOP set and the broader black largesse. I've personally observed the shockingly large social gulf between upper class blacks and the larger black underclass, but I've never heard anyone talk about it, where they do so in this film so candidly and even go on to say that they identify more with whites....basically the charge that many "boule haters", especially on this site, have levied against them.

Bro at 22 mins kept it honest and said some real stuff. Some funny shyt too.



Went to integrated schools, used to PAWG, said he doesn't hang around "welfare recipients" or unemployed people. Admitted that he looked at the non upper/upper-middle class Blacks as "those people".

 

[BuckFilly]

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Huge loss for the black community! RIP

 

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Joe Morton, Rhyon Nicole Brown Latest To Join Fox Drama Series ‘Our Kind Of People’
Jun 12
Written By Wilson Morales

Emmy winner Joe Morton and Empire alumna Rhyon Nicole Brown are the latest talent added to the Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star). They join a cast that also includes Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, LaToya Luckett and Alana Bright. Tasha Smith (911, P-Valley) will direct the first episode.

Our Kind of People is set in the Oak Bluffs enclave of Martha’s Vineyard — a historical stronghold for a set of elite Black families. The drama is inspired from the book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham.

Written by Gist, the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years. Our Kind of People follows strong-willed single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. But she soon discovers a dark secret about her mother’s past that will turn her world upside-down and shake up this community forever.

Brown will play Lauren Dupont, Leah (Luckett) and Raymond’s (Chestnut) daughter, a beautiful and ultra-privileged girl who rules the young social set of The Bluffs and is an established social media influencer. She takes an instant dislike to Angela’s (DaCosta) daughter Nikki (Bright), who has the audacity to call her out for her public rudeness. However, behind the scenes, she is trying to come to terms with her identity as a queer woman of color in her conservative community, and when Nikki discovers her secret, Lauren’s antipathy for the newcomer grows.

Morton will play Teddy Franklin, Leah’s (Luckett) “smooth as butter, smart as a whip” father. Born into money, Teddy grew his family’s sanitation company into one of the biggest holding companies in the world. When Leah takes him to task for buying out Black-owned properties on the cheap, he reminds her where her privilege and wealth came from. He also has an arcane connection to Angela’s past.

There you have it folks.

Can't make this shyt up.

 

[Cape Town JHB]

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class



It's a long video but is OKOP in a nutshell.

- Debutante Cotillions
- The Girlfriends
- John Johnson
- Earl dikkerson
- Collier Heights
- Westchester Co., NY
- Oak Bluffs
- Percy Julian
- St. Clare Drake
- Howard University
- Omega Psi Phi
- Episcopal Church


Some of it is very cringe. For the first time, I can see why some black folks have reservations about this group. There was certainly a real element of detachment among some members of the OKOP set and the broader black largesse. I've personally observed the shockingly large social gulf between upper class blacks and the larger black underclass, but I've never heard anyone talk about it, where they do so in this film so candidly and even go on to say that they identify more with whites....basically the charge that many "boule haters", especially on this site, have levied against them.

This documentaty is astonishing and thank you for sharing it.

The sentiments expressed still hold true, especially the identifying with being or with American/White.

It's just today they've refined these indentities and know how to express in a way that seems un-c00nish.

I think what causes divide is this, economically speaking these are the most enterprising and productive black men of the 20th century, but their motivations behind all that industry is a pathological obsession with wanting to attain whiteness.
Which is where they lose all respect.

 

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There you have it folks.

Can't make this shyt up.

Knowing Lee Daniels, it's about to be The Copping Pleas tour, volume 2

With Graham's widow replacing Ms. Bundles on the podcast/interview circuit.

Spoiler

 

[Cape Town JHB]

There you have it folks.

Can't make this shyt up.

Queer Kind of People

 

[get these nets]

Mar 29, 2021
Lee Daniels, Karin Gist Drama ‘Our Kind of People’ Given Script-to-Series Order at Fox

The Lee Daniels and Karin Gist project “Our Kind of People” has been given the straight-to-series treatment at Fox Entertainment.
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Karin Gist just publicly came "out" last year. With all due respect to whatever her actual orientation is, this is the "gay-spoitation" era in entertainment where claiming Alphabet Soup gang gives you a career boost. Look at the career of talentless hack Lena Waithe.

To paraphrase the man who gave LOG the idea that the public might be interested in learning about the Black elite.

Gist said " Why should LGBTQ people have all the fun?"

 

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Gist said " Why should LGBTQ people have all the fun?"

Lol. Why should Heteros have all the fun?

Spoiler

What movie was this from?

I just know they inserted that story line after he died. They probably rejoiced after they heard the news of his passing.

 

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but their motivations behind all that industry is a pathological obsession with wanting to attain whiteness.
Which is where they lose all respect.

Can the same be said for a person like Jay Z or athletes?

 

[Cape Town JHB]

Can the same be said for a person like Jay Z or athletes?

Rappers and athletes don't form part of my thinking when dealing with issues affecting the collective racial consciousness of black people.



However, I've spent too much time watching sports documentaries over the years. The common theme, whether football or basketball is always:

single mom rearing a broken family, white coach/scout plays father figure role and disciplinarian and young black boy accepts white men as the authority in life, he gets recruited by a white college coach who replaces his high school white coach as his new daddy and by the time he gets to the pros, all good things that have happened in his life have been the result of white agents, white scouts, white coaches, white physios, white NCAA officials etc etc

So to turn around and label an athlete that black men did not raise or nurture as a "c00n" would be like a dadbeat who didn't give a damn about his kids calling them "spoilt brats" when they're older.

Rappers tend to follow a similar path, some jew gave them their first major cheque, another white boy handles their accounting etc