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We discuss the obsession of Black nerds and Blavity Blacks with the upcoming Black Panther movie.

The Champagne Sharks reddit:
The Black Panther toy commercial and commentary around it https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/951942622796431360
A thread I made on the proliferation of grassroots organizing and fundraising Black People have been doing regarding Black Panther https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/951230707845578753
A story about the Black Hogwarts hashtag and all the Black nerds obsessing over imagining a black version https://blavity.com/black-twitter-imagined-a-blacker-harry-potter-universe-making-magic-with-blackhogwarts
Y2Dre’s tweet about Harry Potter and representation-obsessed blerds that got the blerds pissed off: https://twitter.com/Y2Dre_/status/951988586542436352. More reactions to Dre’s tweet: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FY2Dre_%2Fstatus%2F951988586542436352&src=typd
An example of the entitlement Mike and I were discussing regarding blerds being included in white people’s creations: https://twitter.com/yungpharaoh1996/status/952629294286753798
A story by the Today show where they discuss the Black Panther fundraiser for poor kids and actually got child development experts to weigh in to say how important it is to poor black kids’ development: https://www.today.com/parents/man-wants-send-kids-black-panther-great-reason-t121104
The teacher who went viral for dancing with his black students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8edbBHUig
“Today’s Word is…Performative” A blog post describing Blavity Blacks https://stanoffewwords.com/2017/08/14/todays-word-is-performative/
A tweet that perfectly sums up how stupid the “We Are Not Our Ancestors” saying that Blavity Blacks like to say is so stupid https://twitter.com/NeezLouize/status/871354400698232832
Books on the suppressed history of Black armed resistance and militancy.We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja http://amzn.to/2rm20K6; This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. http://amzn.to/2EThBCr; Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams http://amzn.to/2DItTyr; The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill http://amzn.to/2FOsV48; Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom http://amzn.to/2DKqTld; Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James http://amzn.to/2FLc2Yh

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We open up discussing recent developments with the Michael Slager case, then we go into the topic of blerds (Black Nerds) in response to a question from a listener about why I always go in on them.

Discussed in this episode:

Recent Michael Slager developments http://www.postandcourier.com/news/as-michael-slager-sentencing-nears-demise-of-north-charleston-police/article_ca264d16-98b6-11e7-a700-f76ce6d98c30.html
Tariq Nasheed discussing the character Finn and how bad his character was in Star Wars: The Force Awakens http://ytcropper.com/cropped/t259c21e849e373
Twitter thread full of the type of black creator-owned comics full of black representation that your typical blerd will ignore: https://twitter.com/ChocCityComics/status/893929667257921536
The terrible T-Dog vs. Merle scene from Walking Dead, which was actually worse than I remembered. As the black thug gets beaten up by the white supremacist, the Asian guy and swarthy guy are looking on ineffectually and afraid and white women and a black women are also cowering, so basically everyone, including white women and men and women of color are all cowering before the white male supremacist until the other white alpha male comes in to take him down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpN3xl1pO3Q
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th http://amzn.to/2wFJVnG
“Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body” by sonofbaldwin https://themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/
A thread about GothamGirlBlue’s weird Hillary Clinton monarchy fantasy tweet: https://twitter.com/Bluepurplerain/status/909369406072827904
Luke Cage chasing down Dr. Doom for $200, “Where’s My Money, Honey?” http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-wheres-my-money-honey/
Thread by writer Myles Johnson about how a type of blerds, the Blavity Blacks (named after a website they tend to write for, Blavity.com) exoticize hood black people like Cardi B. in problematic ways, not too differently from how white people eroticize ratchet people: https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/895502317931438080
A twitter thread doing exactly what Myles Johnson was bashing Blavity Blacks for doing with Cardi B. https://twitter.com/prezmomobologna/status/909061698191073280
Harmontown fans reacting, largely negatively, to GothamGirlBlue’s appearance on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/6opl7a/episode_252_epeephany/
Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/
A video discussing a bunch of the problems with BBC’s Sherlock, including how he actually sucks at deduction as D. and I were trying to explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM

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