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ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:37pm
The Denver Post one doesn't seem all that racist to me. They probably made the pun in reference to escape velocity rather than escaped slaves.
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  zegotaʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
  3/05/14 4:38pm
  Agreed. At the very most, it's an unfortunate phrasing. But the pun is clearly meant to be "escape gravity" as opposed to "slave escape."
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  SplitAnotherAtomʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
  3/05/14 4:39pm
  It's a physics joke, not a racist joke! OH MY GOD, THE SCIENCE LITERACY IN THIS COUNTRY!
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Patcher PupTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:38pm
"12 years a slob." Aside from the heinous racism, what a shitty thing to say. I thought Ms. Sidibe looked lovely. Racist AND hateful to a bigger woman! He should win a prize or something.
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  DashleyinCaliPatcher Pup
  3/05/14 4:54pm
  As a bigger woman myself, I was so happy about how beautiful she looked on Oscar night - that dress was fantastic on her. So fuck them.
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  lunchcomaPatcher Pup
  3/05/14 5:02pm
  That was actually the best dress I've seen her in. It was in no way a "slob" look (I'd reserve that for...I don't know, Robert Downey, Jr. or Kristen Stewart or someone else who doesn't put much effort into looking good).
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Antonio Cromartie Jr The ThirdTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:37pm

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  LeelahJamesAntonio Cromartie Jr The Third
  3/05/14 5:01pm
  This came up more than once in the most uncomfortable way. True Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have a diverse family of adopted children. But, Brad Pitt was a producer and actor on 12 Years A Slave. Lupita Nyong'o comes from a very good family. They knows she's a full grown adult, and accomplished Yale graduate.
  
  I hate to ground this in so much reality, but those facts never seem to dawn on people when they make comments like this. It reinforces this idea that whites always desire to be the savior of blacks who apparently always lack their own ambition and personal agency.
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  thismixedgirlLeelahJames
  3/05/14 5:11pm
  I hope they are really good friends with her and they bring her around as a positive Black female role model for their daughter.
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Samuel L. DaschundTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:46pm

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  mllelacoquetteSamuel L. Daschund
  3/05/14 5:03pm
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  thatguythatothertimeSamuel L. Daschund
  3/05/14 5:05pm
  Lol, very appropriate response. Where is this from?
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SchweepsTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:48pm
I actually was impressed how much restraint I saw with the LACK of punny "Serve this at your Oscar's party" food items that were related to this film. I really didn't see any of them. There's nothing you could serve as a play on words, really, without it being a touch racist (or at least it's a short enough list that there's no real point in trying). Much like the bar near me that had a special drink for Martin Luther King Day. I was CRINGING so hard when I saw the blackboard and, against my better judgment asked what it was, expecting something terribly offensive. Turns out, it was literally, MLK Jr's favorite drink - quite frankly, the ONLY non-offensive MLK-day themed drink a bar could serve.
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  Rhetorical ImpulseSchweeps
  3/05/14 4:52pm
  So what was the drink?
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  SchweepsRhetorical Impulse
  3/05/14 4:56pm
  I was hoping someone wouldn't ask, because I honestly forgot. I think it was similar to an old fashioned, maybe with grenadine or lime?
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SamIam24Tracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:44pm
And comments like that one is the reason why I just couldn't get worked up about the bruhaha over Jason Biggs and his wife's baby controversy. He's a racist dick.
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  fortheloveofbeetsSamIam24
  3/05/14 4:46pm
  I had no idea he was such an awful person. I'm not really plugged into celebrity culture, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Bummer.
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  SamIam24fortheloveofbeets
  3/05/14 5:01pm
  Yep. They've done write-ups about him on Jezebel before. His wife also gets in on the action.
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LeelahJamesTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:40pm
Let's be honest here. A big legacy of slavery is not slavery itself, but the aftermath that continues to live in our culture: The idea that African Americans are not really citizens imbued with all the freedoms of being American. Further, how we feel about this disregard for our freedom doesn't matter. I'm just gonna let Jay Smooth explain it. He essentially says that when it comes to our racial interactions, we seem to think that coming closer together means we get to care less about how other people feel.

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  friend_of_hogwartsLeelahJames
  3/05/14 4:59pm
  If you look at the lives of the majority of black Americans, that is, where they live, what type of jobs they have and the salary they make, and where their children go to school, you realize that the "progress" is more about the reduction in state sponsored violence carried out against them in public.
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  emiliawasframedLeelahJames
  3/05/14 5:26pm
  Jay Smooth is the best ever. I use his videos in my classes a lot, and they're always so helpful.
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marydnTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:47pm

"celebrity eyebrow stylist" Joey Healy

This is a thing?!? Seriously? OMMG I don't even want to know how much he charges.
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  Winnmarydn
  3/05/14 5:09pm
  Trust me, whomever he is, he can't hold an brow brush to the great Damone Roberts.
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  CassiopeiaSDmarydn
  3/05/14 5:32pm
  Any "celebrity _____ stylist" is a thing (where ___ is ever potentially visible). It's like rule 42 for Hollywood.
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Galaxy ClawTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:33pm
That Gravity headline is a fucking stretch, seriously.
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  fiona.morríganGalaxy Claw
  3/05/14 10:02pm
  Yeah. But it's a profoundly awful physics pun.
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LizLemons-GymBagTracie Egan Morrissey
3/05/14 4:49pm
It seems to me like there's just an overall tone of mockery towards black people in film in general. I feel like African-American cinema is lumped into two categories by Hollywood and the general public: "The Black Hardship Film" (The Butler, 12 years a Slave, Precious.) and "The Stupid Romantic Comedy Farce" (Tyler Perry, Baggage Claim.)
With the profound increase of amazing black directors in the independent circuit it still puzzles me that studio heads feel like they can't sell a movie with a mostly-black cast that doesn't fall into one of those two categories. Until alternative films are given the chance at a wide release and the bulk of movie going audiences are given the chance to experience different aspects of black cinema, than there's still going to be an air of "LOLZBLACKPEOPLE" surrounding successful black movies.
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  KateLizLemons-GymBag
  3/05/14 4:56pm
  That's true to a degree. Rick Famuyiwa's films are fairly mainstream and don't really fall into those two categories. But of course I struggle to think of other examples at the top of my head...
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  beenLizLemons-GymBag
  3/05/14 6:55pm
  Have you read this? He makes some very good points about how the old movies we cringe at aren't so very different from ones being made now, at least by big studios.
  
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