Category: U.S.

Lovecraft Country – I Am (S1E7)

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Hyppolyta

Listen. If you have one. single. drop. of Black Girl Magic running through your veins, this was the episode for you! (Hyppolyta even said my name!) There were so many gems, I know I can’t touch them all. Settle in… this is gonna be a long one. Broken Fences and Mended Ones Let’s go ahead and get Montrose out of the way. He’s holed up in his apartment with his lover Sammy. Things start off sweet, but then Sammy mentions seeing one of Montrose’s neighbors. Montrose’s response to his fear…

Trump Paid $750 in Taxes and Now I Gotta Figure Out How To Become a Rich White Man

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Here is what I’m thinking. Ya’ll know how Steve Rogers became Captain America? You know, he got into some chamber, they injected him with some super human cocktail bullshit, and then boom, he can beat up helicopters and shit? Yeah, I need someone to develop that same cocktail, except it turns me into a rich white man. But not just a rich white man. No, I need a cocktail that would make my father a rich white man. And of course, he obtained this rich white man richness by conducting…

I Got 21 Questions for Daniel Cameron

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Daniel Cameron is Kentucky’s black Attorney General. He loves white people more than white people. And so, I got questions. 1. Where did it go wrong? 2. When you became a koon, did you start glowing like Sho’nuff from The Last Dragon? 3. Do you smile that hard to signal white people that you are safe? 4. Why do you have so many teeth? 5. Are extra teeth a prerequisite in order to become a koon? 6. Do you hate black women and why is the answer yes? 7. Do…

We Knew Breonna Taylor’s Life Didn’t Matter to Them and the Shit Still Hurts

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We knew her life didn’t matter to them. We knew it, going in. From the time they murdered her, to the time they announced the Grand Jury decisions. So, we weren’t surprised. America has trained us well not to be surprised, at this point. Long before the age of devices you used to record the actions of wicked state actors, black folks witnessed harassment, brutality and murder, followed by the lack of punishment done to law-enforcement officers. In the case of many victims of unjust brutality or murder at the…

Lovecraft Country – Meet Me in Daegu (S1E6)

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Or more aptly titled by Nicole N on the Black With No Chaser page as, “I got 99 kills, but Tic ain’t 1.” Ji-Ah the Kamiho This episode, while slower than the others, was quite revealing. We’ve finally met Ji-Ah in the midst of her existence during the Korean war. Initially, I felt like something was off about her. She’s child-like, socially awkward, and is obsessed with musicals. (I can relate to that last one. Don’t judge me.) Surely, this can’t be the woman Tic spoke to on the phone……