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Why does the black community hate me so much :(
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I’m 70% Black and 30% white. I’m black passing, I’ve experienced racism just like a lot of other people of color but it hurts so much to feel shunned for something I can’t control. I’ve constantly been told I’m “not black enough”, “you’re not one of us”, “half breed”, “I feel sorry for you I wouldn’t wanna be white”, “the one drop rule don’t exist anymore stop claiming to be us”. I know I’m not fully black and I tell people that I’m mixed and I claim both sides but I get SO MUCH hate from the black community. I get demonized for my genetics I don’t understand why, it’s so lonely to feel like nobody wants you because you’re grey in a place that’s black and white. I just wanna belong somewhere without feeling judged or attacked :(
Edit: I’ve done some thinking and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll just have to live with the fact that there’s nothing I can really do about the people (black or white) who torment me for my genetics. All I can do is just kinda live life and try to not let it bother me as much, I can’t control other people’s thoughts, reactions, or opinions regarding my ethnic background. It helps to know I’m not the only person who deals with this I’ll visit this sub more :)
Top Comment: I hate when people insinuate they feel sorry for me because I’m not fully black or they’re better than me because they’re fully black or they’re not mixed with white. It’s honestly very pick and choosey when it comes to mixed people so I stopped looking in places for kinship and just appreciate it when I organically come across it. Also, most of these comments are from chronically online people so they’d probably never have the guts to say it in real life. They’d just see you in real life and THEN go complain on the internet about it
Just finished “Black Like Me.”
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What a powerful book! I can’t remember where I got the recommendation, but I had to go to the library to find it and it was totally worth it.
This is my opinion, but with a lot of the book bans going on there is concerns that our dark history will be swept under the rug. This is a great book from someone who was able to plant themselves firmly on each side of the topic of racism and segregation.
Sometimes people have selective amnesia and forget this was not long ago! My mom was born in the year this book takes place!
As a white man myself I always try to seek understanding. So this was a great book for that. I am having my teenage sons also read it.
Top Comment: I read that book back in the 60s as a young, impressionable pre-teen living in a small Midwest town with only a few black families. It changed my worldview entirely. Great book.
Ayo Edebiri answers a question about Me Too and Black Lives Matter after being deliberately excluded from the question during an interview in the “After the Hunt” press tour : popculturechat
Main Post: Ayo Edebiri answers a question about Me Too and Black Lives Matter after being deliberately excluded from the question during an interview in the “After the Hunt” press tour : popculturechat
What does parker mean by “dont paint me black when i used to be golden”
Main Post: What does parker mean by “dont paint me black when i used to be golden”
Top Comment: My guess is he’s telling the girl to not write him out of her life when he used to be so important to her Could be a more literal meaning, that’s just my two cents
60 Years Ago Today: "I Am The Night -- Color Me Black" premiered
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(See photos #1 and #2)
With this fifth season episode Rod Serling could no longer repress his thoughts and feelings about man's inhumanity to man. Serling had already gravitated towards ending Twilight Zone and wasn't going to fight with the network anymore to extend the run.
This was Serling's final chance to say what he wanted to convey years before with the story "Noon On Doomsday", which aired in 1956 on the program 'The United States Steel Hour', before sponsors and network censors rode roughshod over the script (which Serling had pre-censored himself as he wrote it).
The impetus for Rod Serling to write "I Am The Night -- Color Me Black" was two pronged: the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the children suffering the most as forced school integration opened the opportunity to push through civil rights with schoolkids taking the frontlines.
Rod Serling's daughter, Anne, noted on her blog:
“After President Kennedy’s BLOCKED, my father wrote something perhaps intended as a letter to a newspaper or magazine editor. It was written on his letterhead and clearly typed by him, not his secretary.” It read:
More than a man has died. More than a gallant young President has been put to death. More than a high office of a land has been assaulted. What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been BLOCKED is a faith in ourselves. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency, our capacity to love, our sense of order and logic and civilized decorum.
To the BLOCKED and the BLOCKED, to the Absolutists, to the men of little faith but strong hate, and to all of us who have helped plant this ugly and loathsome seed that blossomed forth on a street in Dallas on last Friday — this is the only dictum we can heed now. For civilization to survive, it must remain civilized.
And if there is to be any hope for our children and theirs, we must never again allow violence to offer itself as an excuse for our own insecurities, our weaknesses and our own fears. This is not an arguable doctrine for simply a better life. It is a condition for our continued existence.
A Rod Serling quote from an interview with the Los Angeles Times in the summer of 1967: "I happen to think the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself."
Key events in Birmingham Alabama throughout 1963 that weighed on Rod Serling's conscience 10-minute YouTube video
Abner Biberman began his career as an actor beginning in the mid-1930s picking up only small parts before picking up work as a director of film and television starting in the mid-1950s. By the late 1950s Abner Biberman became strictly a television director.
The series Abner Biberman directed the most were 'The Virginian' (25 episodes), 'Mr. Novak' (10 episodes), 'Tightrope' (8 episodes), and 'Ironside' (8 episodes). Biberman died in 1977 at the age of 68.
Born in 1901, Paul Fix began his long acting career during the silent film era. He appeared in well over 300 film and television credits from 1925 to 1981.
"Fargo Express" 1933 film prominently featuring Paul Fix 59-minute YouTube video but you can see Paul Fix early on as he flees gamblers and bluffs being the resident of a cabin if you just want a sample of a 32-year-old Fix
While often cast in Westerns as someone in authority, occasionally Paul Fix picked up unusual roles in shows like 'The Adventures Of Superman', 'The Abbott And Costello Show', and 'Battlestar Galactica'.
Paul Fix as Dr. Piper on Star Trek before there was Dr. McCoy 2-minute YouTube video
Paul Fix is best remembered in his longest running TV role as Marshall Micah Torrance on the series 'The Rifleman' appearing in more than 150 episodes. Paul Fix died on October 14, 1983 at the age of 82.
Michael Constantine's big breakout role as the principal in the 1970s TV show 'Room 222' which earned him an Emmy win First 3-minutes of this YouTube video
Michael Constantine in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" 1-minute YouTube clip
Personal and professional history of Ivan Dixon 5.5-minute YouTube video
Personal and professional history of George Lindsey 8-minute YouTube video
Terry Becker was born on August 5, 1921. His professional acting career broke through in television in the 1950s playing one-off bit parts in shows that have largely been forgotten. By the 1960s, Becker picked up guest roles in shows like 'Perry Mason', 'The Asphalt Jungle' (TV series), 'Sea Hunt' and 'Bonanza'.
Terry Becker's breakout role came in 1965 as a second season replacement filling the spot of submarine security chief on 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' for more than 60 episodes.
Immediately after 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' Terry Becker angled his way into being an associate producer, executive assistant, and the director's chair for the ABC's new series 'Room 222' in 1969. From there Becker guest directed episodes of 'Mod Squad', 'The Brady Bunch', 'Mission: Impossible', and 'M•A•S•H'. Terry Becker passed away on December 30, 2014 at the age of 93.
"I Am The Night -- Color Me Black" has strong ties to the first comedy-drama focused on topical issues affecting teenagers in the late 1960s / early 1970s: Terry Becker was an associate producer when 'Room 222' was being put together. Becker was instrumental in getting Michael Constantine hired as the school principal (which Constantine won an Emmy). Terry Becker also directed 8 episodes during the first two seasons of 'Room 222'. In addition, Ivan Dixon received his spot in the director's chair helming four episodes. Actress Eve McVeagh ("Ella Koch" the sheriff's wife) played a PTA member in two episodes.
Ivan Dixon directed 'Room 222' episode 26-minute full episode on YouTube
Terry Becker directed 'Room 222' episode 26-minute full episode on YouTube
Historical background referenced by Rod Serling within the closing radio news alert of this episode
[NOTE: The bulk of the background on the cities reference in the episode's closing radio report had to be excised due to new restrictions about political content in posts]
The history inside Texas in the 1960s leading up to November 22, 1963 52-minute YouTube video discussion / interview with the co-author of "Dallas 1963"
What was happening in Chicago Illinois in October 1963 2-minute YouTube video
"The Intruder" 1962 full-length film drama starring William Shatner, in his first starring role, and written by Twilight Zone contributor Charles Beaumont focusing on the manipulation of society by exploiting fears 83-minute YouTube FREE video HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Top Comment: This was the fifth attempt to get the background on this episode posted. Each time I trimmed a little more out trying to make it past the automated censorship installed in this forum (I don't believe we actually have human moderators active anymore and haven't for at least a couple of years). I finally had to type the word BLOCKED a few times in material quoting Rod Serling.... the act of which actually sickens me somewhat having to censor text written by Rod Serling involving his thoughts. I left just a couple of links intact, but had to remove words that accurately described the video content. For those of you who might be offended by factual historical material within those links, it was not my intent to trick you into clicking on them. Key words giving you a heads up about the topics had to be removed to clear the automated censors. I actually spent hours digging for the most likely matches for the cities mentioned on the closing radio bulletin. One of the hardest to track down was Berlin. Google "Paul Schultz" 18-years-old. The incident occurred on Christmas day 1963. It's sad and angering. A lot of work was put in the initial four attempted posts for "I Am The Night -- Color Me Black", so if you find this entry subpar, it didn't start out butchered. I cut about 35% of the gathered data just to have some kind of entry for this episode's background and history.
A safe space for the black men of reddit.
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Laura Jane Grace- Black Me Out
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I saw her last night in Jax. Great show
Top Comment: She murders it. Also, I miss Against Me!
Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur - Does it taste like *Good* Coffee?
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This may sound only half-topical (and my apologies to those who don't do alcohol), but I do think r/coffee is my best hope here.
I'm a coffee snob trying to make a good espresso martini, and so far the results have been disappointing. I think I need a new coffee liqueur, because the current one I've been using tastes like over-sweetened, burnt gas-station coffee.
I keep seeing the brand Mr. Black on YouTube when I look up coffee liqueurs or recipes for Espresso Martinis, but A) these are all bartenders, not baristas, and B) all of the top cocktail YouTubers were shipped free Mr. Black booze and merch by the company in what seems to have been a huge marketing push over the past year.
Since this is technically a liqueur, all the reviews I find online are from a bartender's perspective and don't really address how the "coffee" part tastes. I was hoping that James Hoffman had done a video about it, but he hasn't yet, that I can see. Maybe this is a yummy liqueur, but I just want to know -- does this taste like *good* coffee?
Top Comment: Mr Black is definitely the least sweet coffee liqueur I've tried, and I didn't get any offensive flavors from it. No liqueur is going to taste like an impressive version of the original product, imho. When you're mixing with other flavors, especially alcohol, the subtle notes of the brew would get overridden anyway. You just want as many of the main good flavors of coffee without any off flavors, which I think it does well.
Black Myth: Wukong
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