Blessinggirl - this is obviously NOT the show for you. I find the show refreshing and funny and on point with the issues explored in this show. I applauld Isse Rae in creating such a great show.
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So - the lesson is that we should have a work vocabulary and a home vocabulary?
Have we learned nothing from Trump and Billy Bush?
Have we learned nothing from Trump and Billy Bush?
The lesson you say we should learn only applies if Trump was just talking and had not done the things he talked about.
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Issa Rae has pretty much NAILED the office scenes, with the race, class, and gender dynamics. Well done.
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This article demonstrates how much difficulty we seem to have as a society in distinguishing between racial and class differences. Does the author really think that all white people behave the same at the office as they do around friends and family? Everyone has to adjust their behavior depending on the social circumstances. Are we so allergic to the idea of class differences that we just pretend they don't exist, or do black people really believe that every conflict with white people is about race, and vice versa? We can't progress in regard to racism until we understand how class differences also influence how we see and treat each other, regardless of race.
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Boy, bye.
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Could not have typed it better myself.
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Aw, cut David some slack. It's not anywhere as readily apparent to others that race supersedes class in America - despite what Marx claimed. Yeah, I know that seems hard to fathom from over here. He doesn't get how this is about SO much more than running Premium Diction 2.0 in the office; so much bigger than "understand how class differences also influence how we see and treat each other, regardless of race." He doesn't understand the anxiety endured when you can tell that your competency is doubted by colleagues who often avoid giving you a straight answer because they fear your supposed volatility. He's never experienced being asked during a group meeting to fetch the broom because a potted plant fell on the floor, then being praised by my boss in front of his assembled colleague for having the "smarts" to bring the broom AND the brush - "Very good Ron! You brought the brush too!" - made all the worse because my white colleague/friends not only couldn't understand at all why I found that praise demeaning, but implied it was due to my acute black hyper-sensitivity.
David doesn't understand what its like to live under the prevalent narrative that if you scratch my polished surface you'll find trouble; what it's like being sees as a good one who could revert to type at any time. You know, like Tiger Woods did. And Bill Cosby. And O.J. Simpson. And Michael Jackson. And Muhammad Ali. And Paul Robeson. And really, why would David know these things? It's a lived-it thing.
David doesn't understand what its like to live under the prevalent narrative that if you scratch my polished surface you'll find trouble; what it's like being sees as a good one who could revert to type at any time. You know, like Tiger Woods did. And Bill Cosby. And O.J. Simpson. And Michael Jackson. And Muhammad Ali. And Paul Robeson. And really, why would David know these things? It's a lived-it thing.
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Ms Rae and the writer's generation believe they and they alone have created "code switching," and truly believe that only Afro Americans make accommodations to the workplace, but most disturbingly, that Afro Americans all express themselves in an ignorant and rude manner when we gather together. Again, youth and self-absorption ruin what could be interesting storylines.
The depiction of the nonprofit is accurate only in the majority white composition of the staff. What I find galling is that Ms Rae chooses to have the main character think only of herself and not the good she can do.
I had hoped for a better show, but there is nothing funny about a woman wailing about a "broken p****. I am not surprised, because Larry Wilmore is involved in this show and he lost his by calling the President the n-word to his face.
I hope both of these talented writers can brainstorm something worth watching.