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Today we talk about the growing proliferation of murder-suicide meltdown, terrorists and MRA types among black male community. Also, what’s up with Tyrese?
Discussed in this episode:
Doug E.Fresh’s attempt in 1992 to cash in on the Hammer trend. If you read the comments to the video, people are still mad about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY36Iy1dt9g
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Today we discuss Antifa supersoldiers, are favorite leftist twitter hoaxes that the alt-right Infowars crowd has fallen for, and other conspiracy hoaxes the alt-right has believed or spread.
We discussed the NY stripper strike, the new Five Pillars of Hip-Hop, the new Cultural Mulattoes, swirling, getting invited to “the cookout, Bob McNair’s “inmates” comment to his football team, and recent developments with a branch of Black Lives Matter.
Show Notes
“MTO BREAKING NEWS: New York City Strippers GO ON STRIKE . . . They’re Fighting For EQUAL TREATMENT . . . With The BARTENDERS!!! #StripperWars #StripperStrike” http://mtonews.com/41193-2-nyc-stripperstrike-wars/
“NYC strippers are on strike and we should hear them out”. This link includes DJ Kay Slay’s strangely intense and involved rant weighing in on the subject https://kulturehub.com/nyc-strippers-strike-foh/
At the time of this episode’s recording the full article wasn’t online yet, but since then it has appeared in full so here it is: “Thank You God, for Black Thanksgiving: On learning how to be black, one family Thanksgiving in Atlanta at a time.”https://www.bonappetit.com/story/rembert-browne-thanksgiving
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We discuss Stranger Things 2, which oddly enough wasn’t even what we originally planned to discuss.
About the Ghostbusters manufactured gender war controversy 1: Why Being Honest about Ghostbusters is Important by Comic Book Girl 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_vAcFGTJU
Today we have Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles on to discuss their 2012 article “Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity”. This article is very dense and has a lot of different ideas making up its thesis, so we didn’t feel we could contain the discussion within a single episode. Therefore it’s a two-part episode, with this being the second part. Both parts are free and not bonus premium episodes. Subscribers to Patreon will have access to a combined version of this episode with the full two hour interview as one file however.
Dr. Kom Kunyosying completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon where he studied the overlap between iconic and ethnic representation in U.S. comics in relation to other visual and prose media. He has published essays on the rise of geek culture for Jump Cut (with Carter Soles) and on metonymy and ecology in Charles Burns’s Black Hole for Interdisciplinary Studies Literature Environment. His essay with Carter Soles, “The Walking Dead’s Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama, and Backwoods White Protagonists,” is in the forthcoming anthology, “There’s Us and the Dead”: Identity Politics in The Walking Dead (McFarland). He teaches Writing and Literature at Nashua Community College. He can be contacted at kkunyosying@ccsnh.edu.
Dr. Carter Soles completed a Ph.D. at University of Oregon. Carter Soles is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at The College at Brockport (SUNY). His research interests include geek studies, gender and identity studies, film authorship, and the comedy and horror genres. He has published articles on the queerness of the independent film Chuck&Buck (2000) for Jump Cut and on the figure of the hillbilly in 1970’s horror cinema for The Eco-Cinema Reader(Routledge, 2012). His profile can be found here: https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/directory/soles_carter.html. He can be contacted on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cartersoles
Contrast the scenes with Kyle the geek and Rhonda from Road Trip to Crumb’s “Whiteman Meets Bigfoot”. As Kyle becomes increasingly uninhibited and less geeky, he at the same time is shown embracing stereotypical blackness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3SOdEw0LY. This culminates with nerdy Kyle bedding a large, very sensual black woman, interestingly shown in animal print, as the final step in conquering his repression and reclaiming his manhood. Note the animal print the black woman is wearing (nature, animalistic). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281lLnMhKVI Like Crumb’s Whiteman, sex with the primal, primitive, hyper sexual black woman is transformative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ly36Bdmcw. This is taken further when we see how much more masculine Kyle is portrayed in the afterglow of the sexual encounter. Also note his friend explicitly asks if he had sex with an animal, a subtle dehumanization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjGj3rx1N0. The Postmodern Geekdom article has more examples of this trope of geeks using black slumming as a way to reclaim primal masculinity.
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond by Robin Wood, a collection where the essay “Mandingo: The Vindication of an Abused Masterpiece” first appears.http://amzn.to/2ysSeqI
Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott http://amzn.to/2ze4hGg
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr. http://amzn.to/2xLJUne
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Today Michael Brooks joins us to discuss various topics recently in the notes, including the ongoing debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and various figures on the left and identity issues vs. class issues in general.
Michael Brooks is host of The Michael Brooks Show https://www.patreon.com/TMBS, co-host of the Majority Report, co-host of 2 Dope Boys & a Podcast, his writing has appeared in Jacobin, Baffler, Open Democracy and the Washington Post. Follow him here https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks
