the sunken place
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Candace Owens Is Big Mad at Netflix and Uber Eats for Having Black Categories, Calls it 'Segregation'
Candace “If Miss Millie Were Black” Owens stays trying it, doesn’t she? This housing complex negro (because sometimes a simple “house negro” isn’t enough to describe it) is so hellbent on getting “I don’t see color” white people to pat her white supremacist lapdog-ass on the head that she’s bringing in 2021 by resurrecting old…
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Diamond and Silk Call Out Fox News' Racism After They Got Fired as 2020 Continues to be Raggedy AF
The Amos ‘n’ Andy versions of The Simpsons characters Patty and Selma—you might know them as Sunken Place landlords Diamond and Silk—are apparently finally convinced that racism is real. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Damn, the Black Lives Matter movement is going so hard it even got through to Auntie Ruckus and discount Candace…
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Sentient Porkpie Hat Jason Whitlock Out at Fox Sports
Jason Whitlock, the Tomi Lahren of Clarence Thomases, is reportedly out at Fox Sports, after they couldn’t come to an agreement on a new contract. I first learned of this news on Twitter, where his name is currently trending. And his name is trending because he is so thoroughly loathed that news of him parting…
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Mural Depicts Dallas Cowboys' Dak Prescott in 'The Sunken Place' for Anti Protest Comments
Although Michael Jordan’s “Republicans buy sneakers too” (a statement he might not have actually said) is oft-cited as a juxtaposition to the very public activism from many contemporary athletes, he was definitely not the only star of the ‘90s finding oxygen and endorsements behind the both sides shield. Where a person like former Chicago Bulls…
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The Sunken Place Has Good Wi-Fi, so Now We Have (Not So) Deep Tweets by Kanye West
What is there left to say about Kanye West that hasn’t been said? If you’ve been living under a rock, or care enough about yourself to take social media sabbaticals, then you may not be aware that Kanye is out here tweeting everything he can think of. From theories on love to support of Donald…
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America Wasn’t Ready for Get Out’s Too Depressing (and Too Realistic) Alternate Ending. Neither Was I
A year after I first watched it—and a day after watching it again on HBO (which seems to have a networkwide mandate to show it 17 times a week now)—the part of Get Out that fucks with me the most is that after Chris discovers Rose’s collection of selfies with the black people she’s lured…
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Get Out Is an Iconic, Critically Acclaimed Film, but Writer-Director Jordan Peele ‘Didn’t Know It Was Ever Going to Get Made’
Looking at the success of Get Out, one would imagine that writer-director Jordan Peele knew what he was getting into when he started working on the project. But according to Peele himself, that was not the case. The story for the now-iconic horror flick started out as a “fun project,” something that he had wanted…
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Jordan Peele Says Tiger Woods Is ‘in the Sunken Place’
My question is: Has Tiger Woods ever not been in the sunken place? This is the man who was so non-black-identified that he made up his own race (including giving Caucasian and American Indian equal footing to black and Asian with an African-American father and a mother from Thailand). Then he turned out to be…
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Was Get Out More Funny or Scary?
That Get Out will compete as a comedy during awards season is not a surprise. Although packed with thrills and scares, it ultimately exists as social satire—which, while not always funny, is a form of comedy. Also, this comedy distinction makes it more likely to win within its categories. For myriad annoying-as-the-fuck reasons, comedies, when…
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Why Sage Steele Needs to Go Sit Down and Stare Longingly at the Stirring Teaspoon
At this point, I wish that sports announcer-turned-perpetual wagging finger of respectability politics Sage Steele would just sit, really sit, and stare at the stirring teaspoon. At this point, those of us with both feet firmly planted on the black side of things get her whole shtick. Steele is the military-raised mixed kid whose politics…