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I wanted to do this before but couldn't finger out how to post this video of David Alan Grier:

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Had to read her Caged Bird book in 7th grade. Terrible :tdown:
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The Torsion wrote:Had to read her Caged Bird book in 7th grade. Terrible :tdown:
It sucked. I am not sure if I will ever be able to appreciate art that is almost entirely dependent on the creator's personal experience with very little craft applied beyond that foundation. I get that stuff can be historically/culturally valuable but maybe assign that in social studies instead of English class?
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toni morrison is aight. i read a couple of her things pretty young. angelou was just a totally shitty poet..
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does oprah know?
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Invisible Man was hard for me to get through in high school but at least Ellison was a real talker.
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Pisscubes wrote:Seemed to be mostly college white chicks who wanted to sway and talk like they were in a black baptist church (without, you know, actually going to one with real black people in them) who sang her praises.
I know this also goes for a lot of my Berkeley experiences, but holy hell some of the stuff you say is just so hard to imagine. This class of person really exists?
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Ha! That's a little bit different... pandering to a specific audience, right?

Reminds me of... (0:50)
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mzqahILpAs<
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Necrometer wrote:Ha! That's a little bit different... pandering to a specific audience, right?

Reminds me of... (0:50)
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mzqahILpAs<
To be fair, Tarantino grew up poor in a black neighborhood AND he's trying to sell some shit there.


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I was only talking about the Clinton case. No way does she do that shit if there aren't black people around! It's something totally different if a person puts on a persona in the absence of the people who they think might find that relatable.
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true story

ignorant ass friend working in a book store in ny in the late 90s didn't know who maya angelou was or what she looked like. maya is scheduled for an in-store. maya walks up to her at the info desk and wishes to be directed to where she is supposed to go by intoning poetically "Where aaaaare my books?" like the smooth chocolate bard she is. friend goes "I don't know! what type of books do you like?"

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FVBTVS wrote:true story

ignorant ass friend working in a book store in ny in the late 90s didn't know who maya angelou was or what she looked like. maya is scheduled for an in-store. maya walks up to her at the info desk and wishes to be directed to where she is supposed to go by intoning poetically "Where aaaaare my books?" like the smooth chocolate bard she is. friend goes "I don't know! what type of books do you like?"

the end
now imagine that story but with bill murray :theylive:
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Pisscubes wrote:I don't know anyone else with the balls to call themselves Doctor for honorary stuff.
I don't think she made that image...
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FUCK!

if she really did that... FUCK

but maybe that's just a stupid marketing account that she has/had little-to-no say in, whatever, bad move on someone's part

in my workplace, almost everyone has a phd or will soon, and even then it's the biggest fucking joke if you acknowledge your degree. like, one guy has firstnamelastnamephd@gmail.com and it was received as supreme comedy
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i know i'm pressing the anti pc angle on this from every direction but seriously

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everyone here knows she sucks, febby, but I appreciate the need to vent. I imagine your FB could be maddening right now?
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FVBTVS wrote:i know i'm pressing the anti pc angle on this from every direction but seriously

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Necrometer wrote:I imagine your FB could be maddening right now?

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she's no gwendolyn brooks.
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