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Judge of Characters: Reclaiming My Time … and Energy
This week, I am confident the only thing that mattered was that we all gained a new mantra: “Reclaiming my time.” Once again, thanks to the amazing Queen Auntie Maxine, not only do we have our new mantra and viral sensation, but we also have a whole new level of love and admiration for her.…
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#NoConfederate: Let HBO Know Their Tone-Deaf Show Has Got To Go
By now you have heard about Confederate, the ill-advised, wildly-panned before it has even aired, and heavily-denounced HBO show that is the brainchild of Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It is an alternate reality where slavery was never outlawed and still continues in the modern era. They’ve admitted that it’s possible…
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HBO’s Confederate Will Be a Dumpster Fire. Here Are 3 Shows They Should’ve Made
Confederate, the new show by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, sounds like hot trash. Smelly, putrid, straight-from-the-piss-drenched-dumpsters-of-1980s-Times Square trash. While the concept isn’t finalized, Confederate will more or less be an alternative history in which the South won the Civil War (the first or the second; there are varying reports), slavery…
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Apparently, HBO Programming Chief Casey Bloys Is an American Hero for Making That Racist Show
I haven’t studied my black-history textbook lately, but I think the lineage of civil rights heroes goes from Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X to HBO Programming President Casey Bloys. Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Wednesday, Bloys said that the criticism surrounding HBO’s upcoming show Confederate—which imagines an alternate…
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Game of Thrones Creator on Confederate Series: We Might Mess Up, but We Haven’t Yet
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are responding to the backlash concerning their new HBO series, Confederate. The alt-history series, which is built around the fictional premise of the Confederacy having won the war and slavery still existing, was met with criticism after HBO announced the show Wednesday. Benioff, Weiss, and producers…