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13415967, American Skin - A Spike Lee Presentation
Posted by Ron Burgandy, Wed Dec-09-20 04:11 PM
Sheesh....Spike said fuck it! Glad to see Nate Parker getting work. The response to this film should be pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1Mjqdj03M
13415977, Looks intense asf
Posted by The3rdOne, Wed Dec-09-20 06:36 PM
13415985, i'm here for the emerging Black Revenge Genre
Posted by Damali, Wed Dec-09-20 07:56 PM
its inevitable lol

this looks good tho..i'll watch

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13415989, ^
Posted by Ashy Achilles, Wed Dec-09-20 09:42 PM
13415986, The FB post had a lot of sandy vaginas.
Posted by JFrost1117, Wed Dec-09-20 08:13 PM
“More woke horseshit” was the first comment I saw.
13415993, tha fuck is this ashy hot take?
Posted by Damali, Wed Dec-09-20 11:05 PM
women have every right to have an issue w/him

i personally don't have any strong feelings about him but fuck you for trying to gaslight any woman that does.

i swear, men aint shit sometimes.

again, fuck you.

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13415994, I was quoting a white man.
Posted by JFrost1117, Wed Dec-09-20 11:12 PM
"Sandy vagina" is more personally entertaining to say and is 90% not referencing anyone's actual vajeen when I say it.

The FB post I was referencing didn't have any comments from women at the time I'm talking about.
13416006, nigga she owns the vagina’s
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 07:41 AM
13416027, thank you. that is correct information.
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 10:29 AM

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416028, still, no.
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 10:30 AM
i'll rescind the fuck you's only if you never say sandy vaginas again.

thanks,
Vagina Management



"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416013, bidens america.
Posted by Reeq, Thu Dec-10-20 08:31 AM
13415987, Going to see this
Posted by Musa, Wed Dec-09-20 08:21 PM
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13415995, I'm glad this is getting released.
Posted by inpulse, Wed Dec-09-20 11:29 PM
I thought it was going to be swept under the rug given it is Nate's comeback and the critics absolutely hated it.
13416007, That moment when the prisoners at the police station walked in
Posted by Airbreed, Thu Dec-10-20 08:10 AM
had me like......OHHHHHYEAH.

I'm ALL in for this.
13416008, I hope that jury of prisoners doesn’t go soft on those cops
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 08:20 AM
13416046, Yup.
Posted by Airbreed, Thu Dec-10-20 11:04 AM
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13416012, i went to school with nate parker.
Posted by Reeq, Thu Dec-10-20 08:31 AM
i think i was maybe a year or 2 before him.

his (white) wife was the roommate of the 1st girl i dated up there. we used to go home with her to erie sometimes (this was before she met him).

his wife always been cool as shit and mainly hung around black people. i believe she pledged either aka or delta.

its cool to see him pro black now cuz his image at school was def 180 back then. he was the typa brother that youd never see at the black parties at the hub/robeson but youd see partying on frat row or $5 pitcher night on a weekday at some bar.

the typa brother that nod down when you nod up.
13416019, what an interesting description
Posted by CherNic, Thu Dec-10-20 09:23 AM
I think his career is probably done and the fact that Spike is working with him makes me side eye Spike (even more)
13416022, Black parties have cops
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 09:55 AM
White parties have beer and one nighters ..j/k bjt not really

You peep how he slipped in that they all went home with the cool white girl.

Can’t wait to see this and also see Black twitter boycott him again.


13416043, i believe in redemption...especially for Black men
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 10:52 AM
he should not pay forever for what happened in the past...especially from his youth

to me, this is similar to the Michael Vick hate...let these men get on with their lives, sheesh

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416045, this is funny lol...
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Dec-10-20 11:03 AM

>the typa brother that nod down when you nod up.
13416049, 'johnson...'
Posted by Reeq, Thu Dec-10-20 11:11 AM
13416067, RE: this is funny lol...
Posted by JFrost1117, Thu Dec-10-20 12:42 PM
Aye, what’s hatnin? *nods up*
Good afternoon, friend. *nods down*
13416020, finally
Posted by Crash Bandacoot, Thu Dec-10-20 09:38 AM
>
13416040, I wonder if people will see Nate Parker differently in 2020
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Dec-10-20 10:41 AM
Remember you have the account of three black men (including the guy who didn't participate) were consistent. So the accusations against Nate are solely based on the word of one white woman who told inconsistent accounts. So this matter comes down to the word of three black men (all who have seemed to had no pattern or other accusations) versus an accuser who was dealing with a life long battle with mental illness and depression that pre-dates her involvement with Nate Parker. This accuser also accused ALL of the Black Student Union at Penn State's campus of harassing her. She also falsely accused her own family members of crimes such as kidnapping and had delusions she was Satan and God and thought god was talking to her through her radio. It just goes to show the power of a white woman's accusation regardless of underlying facts.

Nate Parker actually went to trial for what he was accused of, and an all white jury acquited him. Think about that. An All white jury looked at all the facts an concluded that a black man did not rape a white woman. Given the long history in this country of black men being falsely accused of sexual crimes against white women, its startling to me that an all white jury 20 years is given the brother more of the benefit of the doubt than Social Media in 2020.

Its just crazy that black twitter is constantly in an outrage at the way the criminal justice system treats black men and Karens falsely accusing Black people of crimes but at the same time are incapable of believing that this dude might have been falsely accused of a crime.



**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
13416042, man.. you know how they do
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 10:44 AM
so don’t expect much to change with that group.

13416048, all white jury in centre county pa too.
Posted by Reeq, Thu Dec-10-20 11:09 AM
once you step off campus into places like bellefont and snowshoe...it gets really economically anxious.
13416057, Are movies theaters open nationwide?
Posted by Numba_33, Thu Dec-10-20 11:44 AM
For better or for worse, theaters have been closed since the spring here in NYC, and in my opinion, they should be closed nationwide to help stem the tide of the pandemic, especially since things are literately getting worse day by day.

Are theaters open on a wide enough basis for movies like this to see any degree of profit?

Would have been interesting to see what kind of reaction this movie would have garnered with movie theaters open nationwide given the currently toxic and divisive political environment mixed with some folks in this country that gave a damn about police misconduct mainly because of George Floyd.
13416059, The movie theater business is suffering overall and studios are...
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Dec-10-20 11:51 AM
looking at online options like Netflix & HBO Max.

13416060, salute spike i hated how they got nate out the paint
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Thu Dec-10-20 11:51 AM
13416065, nate got HIMSELF out the paint
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 12:18 PM
either he didn't listen to his PR team or they didnt coach him on how to contritely talk about what happened back then...how to assert that he didn't rape her & was acquitted WHILE expressing empathy and compassion for her and all victims. he failed at the 2nd part.

so no...you don't get to blame a 'they'..he did that shit to himself

i believe he should be allowed to redeem himself, tho...but it remains to be seen if he's learned anything from the first go round. His first media interviews will tell the tale.

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416077, Black man.. white woman.. he never had a chance
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 03:10 PM
there is no way to move in that space..

and Black women jumping on him didn’t help but its whatever...

13416080, fr a white girl tried to get him lynched but he needs to express empathy
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Thu Dec-10-20 03:29 PM
and compassion for something he didnt do.
13416083, no dumbass
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 03:40 PM
>and compassion for something he didnt do.

compassion for HER AS A PERSON. AS A VICTIM OF ASSAULT

again, i'm not surprised that trash men can't grasp that concept.

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416082, not true. you didn't read what i said
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 03:38 PM
>there is no way to move in that space..
>
>and Black women jumping on him didn’t help but its
>whatever...

like i said, he handled questions about it wrong. period. there's a right way and a wrong way. he chose the wrong one. he got defensive and indignant when repeatedly asked about it..if he hadn't done that, shit would have been different.

its not surprising that you don't understand nuance tho

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416085, Are we really saying that a black man shouldn't be too indignant about
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Dec-10-20 03:50 PM
being falsely accused of rape?

Or are you saying he should or could have gotten a pass on committing rape, if he were better at PR?





>>there is no way to move in that space..
>>
>>and Black women jumping on him didn’t help but its
>>whatever...
>
>like i said, he handled questions about it wrong. period.
>there's a right way and a wrong way. he chose the wrong one.
>he got defensive and indignant when repeatedly asked about
>it..if he hadn't done that, shit would have been different.
>
>its not surprising that you don't understand nuance tho
>
>d
>
>"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of
>people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing
>at how stupid you are." - bshelly


**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
13416090, just bend over and take your lashings black man
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Thu Dec-10-20 04:08 PM
you aint do nothing but she said you did so you have to act like you did.
13416138, what i wrote was clear. if you can't read i can't help you.
Posted by Damali, Thu Dec-10-20 08:28 PM
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13416139, it didn’t matter how he answered it. He’s Black, she’s white
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 08:41 PM
and no amount of empathy would help his situation with a certain segment of the population

13416218, while that's generally true, he still could have done better.
Posted by Damali, Fri Dec-11-20 12:17 PM
clearly, he is still working, which is good.

we'll see how he handles this next round of media interviews etc..i truly hope he can overcome this.

d


"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
13416239, I think he can.. the real question is can those other people move on
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Dec-11-20 02:13 PM
or do they want to keep him in the same place for their convenience?
13416061, lol...that dude seems to always play some type of...
Posted by Dstl1, Thu Dec-10-20 11:59 AM
shitty/conflicted cop.
13416071, Birth of A Nation was a great film that doesn't get enough credit
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Dec-10-20 01:46 PM
13416079, he plays that part extremely well
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 03:21 PM
13416088, lol, right...
Posted by Dstl1, Thu Dec-10-20 04:04 PM
ol Michael Rappaport, typecast lookin ass. As soon as I saw his face, I busted out laughing.
13416091, hope this film doesn't have a Spike ending
Posted by Dr Claw, Thu Dec-10-20 04:19 PM
but America could use some "Black Revenge" films. art is one way of putting that thought in people's heads.
13416140, I said the same thing..
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Dec-10-20 08:42 PM
but you know Spike gotta Spike.