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We can't even make it to 200 pages without one of you niggas getting got

Niggas get banned every day, B.

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Welcome to the Black Culture Thread. This community is focused on the discussion and experience of daily life for minorities. GAF is a rather large forum, and these unique experiences can get lost in the noise. But while this thread was created to ensure certain topics relevant to the black community could be discussed reasonably, people of all skin color and walks of life are welcome. It's a community thread, so it can be intimidating for newcomers to jump in considering all the in-jokes and general cadence of the thread. If you are unfamiliar with anything, ask. We are always looking for more decent folks to bring into the family.

Enjoy your stay.

The Community

Previously in BCT...

Are you new to this community? Introduce yourself by filling out this quick questionnaire:

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Do you know your roots -
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BCT's resident podcast, maintained and curated by Moris. It's updated pretty much whenever he gets around to it.

• Episode #21: Narrated By Sinbad

DY, Moris, Angelus and Slayven talk Smoke Jumpers, Terra Formars, TV, Asian actors, Pop stars, Degrassi and more.


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Resources

DreamyDrop's official topic on Black History Month.

Angelus' explanation of cultural appropriation.

Amirox's comprehensive thread on institutional racism.

Mumei has an exceptionally long book list on interesting topics dealing with black history and racial identity.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

Video Games' Blackness Problem

Black Excellence vs. White Mediocrity

The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates​

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Let's go!

 

[User 73706]

 

[Malyse]

Eh.

 

[Sou Da]

 

[Gordon Shumway]

What? LOL

 

[Jackben]

Wow @ how close that king crab post count was.

Eh.

Labor interned at a suicide hotline and just left the parts of SWS where Dreams speaks on repeat during his shifts.

Couldn't let this gem get buried in the thread switch.

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

Once more we rise.

Spoiler

Accidentally posted in the last thread...

 

[chertipros]

It's what I keep trying to tell people

 

[User 73706]

that's the face of a man who got pantsed during his class portrait and had everyone staring at his Michelangelo's Statue of David dick

 

[Trey]

If you could do me a favor, post any relevant links to articles or definitions that you think should be in the OP for the edification of any people unfamiliar with black culture, racism, etc. I started with good recent threads/posts made on this forum, but the resource section could stand to be bolstered. Considerably.

 

[CountBlack]

slay you just gonna let DD beat u like that fam

 

[User 73706]

slay you just gonna let DD beat u like that fam

slay's going to revert to his primordial Giant Enemy Crab form and throw claws

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

slay you just gonna let DD beat u like that fam

2 posts. The difference between King Crab and Ain't Shit.

 

[Trey]

Eh.

DD, you've finally taken the coveted King Crab spot. What are you gonna do now?

(Leading "When You Wish Upon A Star" music begins to play silently in the background.)

 

[MHWilliams]

That damn RPS interview has people thinking that what journalism is like on the regular.

 

[CrazyDogg77]

Man ya'll still ain't shit

 

[Malyse]

My N3DS should be arriving tomorrow, unfortunately Amazon France have not been clear so either I've paid what I expected, they've converted the price at £1 = €1 or they've charged me twice for VAT.

Only one of the above is acceptable.

I preordered one, only to find it in stock at Walmart.

 

[User 73706]

DD, you've finally taken the coveted King Crab spot. What are you gonna do now?

(Leading "When You Wish Upon A Star" music begins to play silently in the background.)

"I'm going to Disneyland!"

Spoiler

come on, man, that's way too easy

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

I preordered one, only to find it in stock at Walmart.

Over here it's Nintendo, Amazon or nobody. Amazon should have been cheaper unless they decided to fuck me over.

 

[DY_nasty]

That damn RPS interview has people thinking that what journalism is like on the regular.

I'm glad you've been making those posts man lol. I knew about the fall off back around 2008 or so but I don't really think I weighed things properly when I was considering hopping back into school for a journalism degree. Not to say that I'm dissuaded or anything but I'm starting to line up my interests with what I want to do (and what I'm able to deal with) better because of it.

Hell, I'm actually thinking of film school

 

[studyguy]

Gonna pop in here real quick to say So Well Spoken is dope.

 

[chertipros]

What's up with these disney related dreamy drop posts

Gonna pop in here real quick to say So Well Spoken is dope.

Word, caught up on a few episodes last night it's good stuff

 

[Slayven]

That damn RPS interview has people thinking that what journalism is like on the regular.

That was shameful on so many levels. People wonder why you just get some PR robot statement on shit? That is why.

 

[Jackben]

If you could do me a favor, post any relevant links to articles or definitions that you think should be in the OP for the edification of any people unfamiliar with black culture, racism, etc. I started with good recent threads/posts made on this forum, but the resource section could stand to be bolstered. Considerably.

Article by Peggy McIntosh: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privledge

As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

Natural's Law: still see a few tagged members for this out in the wild. Here is where it comes from.

Natural's Law - is a humorous observation made by GAF poster MWS Natural in 2011 which is becoming an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving black people approaches 1. In other words, Natural put forth the hyperbolic observation that, given enough time, in any online discussion regarding any form of conflict someone inevitably criticizes some point made in the discussion by comparing it to discrimination faced by blacks.

This used to get posted in the older OTs and I think it deserves to be preserved. Captmcblack's thoughts on the imbalance between "blackness" and actually being black.

Everyone wants to be black. There's nothing more punk rock on Earth than being black. We stroll in, all muscle and sinew and cocoa, fucking the game up like dirty edge connectors. We laugh loud and speak bold and emit "I-just-don't-give-a-fuck" with every movement. We have been scrutinized and analyzed in every conceivable way, and still we are mysterious and exotic right down to the kink of our hair to those - surprising, still numerous - people who haven't been in contact with us before. We've created the rhythm and the blues, the rock and the roll, the hip and the hop. We brought in the noise and the funk. We put the soul in food, and pretty much everything else too. We built your pyramids, and we leap over them with our seemingly impossible collective athleticism, borne of mountains, jungles and plains that many of us still live in all across the world. Everyone wants to be black.

No one wants to be black. There's nothing more terrifying than the knowledge that we exist in every way but individually to everyone - even other black people. We can never be judged by our own merits; we carry the weight of the race's progression with every step into the future like Atlas, and even he shrugged...but we can't, because it's considered weak and selling out if we do. Every bit of slang, every bit of clothing that sits the wrong way, every head nod and hand gesture can and will be taken in the wrong way, a universal "there-goes-the-neighborhood" by everyone that can do so, which basically consists of everyone that doesn't want the social association with black people. That group, naturally, consists of everyone that is able to pass as "non-black". We live in a world where we were kings until we were cattle, and then we were weapons, and then we were like aphids, sprouting up where we weren't wanted, corrupting non-black youth, and the reason for everything from crime to lowered test scores or property value. Nobody wants to be black.

My blackness offends infinitely.
I want to be black.

Diet Racism: funny but also shows the "subtle" kind of 21st century racism that is prevalent today.

Also I think some of the discussion Opiate sparked up last thread should be linked to.

 

[Sou Da]

Gonna pop in here real quick to say So Well Spoken is dope.

You should stream an episode

 

[Malyse]

"I'm going to Disneyland!"

Spoiler

come on, man, that's way too easy

Never been.

 

[J10]

 

[FeenixRising]

I pop in here and the first thing I see is a charmander post, this ain't TLR brehs.

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

I will never not laugh at that.

 

[Jackben]

What's up with these disney related dreamy drop posts

"That boy loves his disney" -Slayven 2014. Nah but he has like seven blogs, four tumblrs, three livejournal accounts all dedicated to Disney or Kingdom Hearts and KH inspired magical girl stuff. He may love Disney more than Slayven loves white women.

 

[studyguy]

You should stream an episode

lmao oh god, I should prob do something at some point. I had a good run towards the end of last year then shit went south again real quick with some deaths in the family so I dipped out of doing pretty much anything. No one wants to watch someone not having fun lol

 

[MHWilliams]

That was shameful on so many levels. People wonder why you just get some PR robot statement on shit? That is why.

Like, Molyneux needed some of those questions. Lord knows the man has done some wrong. But there's a way to ask those questions without being so... vindictive.

Walker had an hour with a completely open veteran dev currently working in the industry, potentially without a PR person around. That's unheard of. It's mythical unicorn. It deserved a better interview. He could've dropped a few questions and retained the solid core of it.

 

[harSon]

I'm glad you've been making those posts man lol. I knew about the fall off back around 2008 or so but I don't really think I weighed things properly when I was considering hopping back into school for a journalism degree. Not to say that I'm dissuaded or anything but I'm starting to line up my interests with what I want to do (and what I'm able to deal with) better because of it.

Hell, I'm actually thinking of film school

my nigga

 

[Malyse]

"That boy loves his disney" -Slayven 2014. Nah but he has like seven blogs, four tumblrs, three livejournal accounts all dedicated to Disney or Kingdom Hearts and KH inspired magical girl stuff. He may love Disney more than Slayven loves white women.

My livejournal is pokemon, thank you very much.

 

[Village]

My livejournal is pokemon, thank you very much.

what kind of pokemans do you like

 

[Malyse]

what kind of pokemans do you like

Shiny dragonair.

 

[Nakazato]

The tag line is bad you should feel bad

 

[User 73706]

The tag line is bad you should feel bad

nah breh it'll just be about 40 more minutes or so while i clean up this fade, here listen to my mixtape while i'm on it brehbreh

 

[Slayven]

Like, Molyneux needed some of those questions. Lord knows the man has done some wrong. But there's a way to ask those questions without being so... vindictive.

Walker had an hour with a completely open veteran dev currently working in the industry, potentially without a PR person around. That's unheard of. It's mythical unicorn. It deserved a better interview. He could've dropped a few questions and retained the solid core of it.

Any other industry folks would kill for that. You can be hard and not be an asshole. John Stewart does it all the time.

I don't know much about journalism, but I do know one rule that gets thrown around "if the story becomes about you, then you have failed". A lot of gaming journalist fails on that.

Whats Molyneux biggest sin? Promising the moon and delivering a mediocre game? Folks act like he sold baby food with lead in it or defective brakes. People take games too personal. Devs and Pubs are not your friend

 

[Trey]

The tag line is bad you should feel bad

I was originally going to go with BCT |OT11| Doesn't Matter What Title's Here, Bish'll Change It, but the people wanted the perm.

 

[AfroMW]

Yo first page, and folks already bringing the fuckery

Happy BHM!

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Those poor parents..

 

[FeenixRising]

Looking at OT1, man the difference is night and day between then and now.

It started off by a nice introduction to BCT and people introducing themselves and whatnot... now, it's just who didn't get banned yet and a post about small dicks by a coli member. Yall went from being shit in yalls lives, to a whole bunch of aint shit ass niggas... lmao

 

[DY_nasty]

that is some true shit slayven

my nigga

i'm clueless - which i think for me is 'good'

i know how to write when i want but storyboarding, working with others, all that visualization stuff... i'm babyweight

 

[Dreams-Visions]

*takes off shoes*

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Eww..put them stank things away!

 

[DrFunk]

* opens refrigeration without permission *

 

[Gordon Shumway]

You home, snoop..

 

[CrazyDogg77]

Looking at OT1, man the difference is night and day between then and now.

It started off by a nice introduction to BCT and people introducing themselves and whatnot... now, it's just who didn't get banned yet and a post about small dicks by a coli member. Yall went from being shit in yalls lives, to a whole bunch of aint shit ass niggas... lmao

Being on GAF so long does things to you man