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Selected episodes from the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s sci-fi anthology series 21 Black Futures: What Is the Future of Blackness? are now streaming on CBC Gem. For example, there is “The Prescription,” which is about a miraculous future in which a Gorilla Glue-like product dismantles systemic racism:
Open Your Big Black Mouth, a brand-new treatment designed to help Black women affected by racism, bigotry, microaggressions, white supremacy, exotification or unwanted hair touching, has just been rolled out. Acute or severe, this specially formulated treatment of endless doses of time and space allows Black women to speak their mind and be heard. The first recipient of this revolutionary treatment has just been given her prescription… and she’s skeptical, to say the least.
PLAYWRIGHT: LISA CODRINGTON, DIRECTOR ALISON DUKE
DIRECTOR’S NOTE:
The year is 2042. There have been technological advances in the field of medicine, especially in the area of mental health and wellness. Chantal Thompson, 30, also known as Recipient 1, is the first to be administered an innovative treatment called Open Your Big Black Mouth. The technology is marketed as the cure for chronic depression and anxiety in Black people overwhelmed by everyday microaggressions, oppression and anti-Black racism. Never before has a Black woman been given the space to say what’s on her mind and not have to deal with white fragility. The monologue follows a skeptical Chantal coming to terms with what this new treatment means for her life. Will it work? What are the side-effects? And is she willing to take the risk and accept the consequences?
Directing Lisa Codrington’s monologue is a creative highlight for me because it conjures so many emotions that Black women feel today. This is the first time I have worked with text that unapologetically propels an unfettered internal conversation from a Black Canadian woman. It’s a tour de force about language that plays with how we receive Black women’s stories. What we hear, between what is said and what is not said, is raw and familiar. And I equally enjoyed the process of discovering how deeply we could explore the feelings with actress Akosua Amo-Adem, who is just magical with her delivery. I marvel at how she can bring emotions to life while staying true to Lisa’s prose, layered as it is with intricate poetic formations. I have often reflected on what life would be like if I, like Chantal, could say what’s on my mind about racism, oppression and sexism, without having to reflect on the consequences. I am drawn to this idea, which is both raw and new.
— ALISON DUKE
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last to speak truth to power to Becky and Karen for touching our hair!
Other episodes include:
Cil Brown loves her work. Her job as a Sender on a global racism-elimination project has resulted in a peaceful, logical and sustainable world. However, she encounters technical difficulties when a Sendee objects to restrictions on the lives of residents of White Supremacist Island.
Facing the justice system alone, Adrian’s future is in jeopardy. But what if there were a corporation that set out to amass Black wealth, knowledge, strength and hard work for the betterment of Black society? A corporation that exploited capitalist systems, normally used as tools of suppression, to uplift and care for Black causes and Black people? What if that group stepped in to ensure Adrian’s talents wouldn’t be wasted in prison? This is the collective. This is Umoja Corp. …
“We were conquerors when in concordance. We bathed in Gold and birthed the boldest battalions. Wakanda is not a wish. Pharaohs are not fictitious. Our empire is not erased. Black is King. Black has been King. Black will be King, but only if Black joins Queen.”
And then’s there’s the post-apocalyptic Emmett, in which Medgar Evers and Emmett Till are proud black gay lovers:
Seven years after the Fall, Medgar makes his way along the shores of the Great Ontario Sea and remembers his lost love Emmett. Every day is very much the same on an Earth still plagued by viruses. But on this day, everything is about to change.
How fascinating it is for Obsidian to consider the future of Blackness through so many pairs of our own eyes. It has been such a truly beautiful experience collaborating with Syrus Marcus Ware and Prince Amponsah on Emmett. From the first time I read the piece, I was struck by its beautiful and stark imagery. What is Blackness when humanity is all but a memory? What energy does Black love, and Black love lost, leave behind? In Emmett, a Black man who should be dead is somehow still alive. That simple statement is the story of the Black spirit itself: it — we — are not gone. In the face of all that would seek to erase it — and the bodies inhabited by it — it remains unbreakable, indomitable, wounded but glorious, and defiantly Black.
A bride motors down a highway in her wedding dress, struggling to make sense of what led her to this moment. Her veil lies crumpled on the back seat. Her cellphone keeps ringing, and the car in her rear view appears to be following her. Could it be Mathiew, her groom?
WRITER’S NOTE:
In the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, when race-based incidents are investigated in the media, it is common practice for journalists to examine the motivations of the perpetrators. We see it happening in the news today in reports about the Capitol insurrection. We saw it when a Canadian “Karen,” Amy Cooper, called the police on the birdwatcher in Central Park. “Why did (insert name of a Karen here) feel forced to attack (a description of a person of colour here)?” But do we know the name of the man she victimized? His last name was Cooper too — Christian Cooper. Another frequently asked question is “What is behind the rise in race-based attacks on people of colour?” Or “what drove (insert the name of a “Kevin” — a wannabe fascist — here) to want to be a Proud Boy?” If the injured party is Black, the news story will typically focus on the white attacker.This short play was inspired by real events. It was also prompted by a two-decade-old study by clinical psychologist Maya McNeilly out of Duke University Medical Center which suggested that “racist provocation” could lead to damaging physical and emotional symptoms. As McNeilly put it, “It is well-documented that racism has negative social, economic and political consequences on African Americans, but the direct effects of racism on physical and emotional health have only begun to be explored.”
This story continues that exploration and contemplates the effects of the terrorism of overt and implicit white supremacy on the physical and emotional life of one particular Black woman: Georgeena.
In summary, in the future, there will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a megaphone shouting critical race theory at a white servitor’s face – forever.
And then’s there’s the post-apocalyptic Emmett, in which Medgar Evers and Emmett Till are strong black gay lovers:
Evers (and Hosea Williams) were (AFAIK) the only notables from that set who’d had agreeable careers which they laid aside in order to engage in political agitation; they were doing what they were doing at some cost to themselves, and Evers was eventually shot dead for his trouble. His three children had to watch him bleed out. This is an obscene act of piracy.
Well now this is progress. Back in the old days she’d have been forced to use a car.
Hey…btw…are the effects of black crime upon everyone else ever going to be considered? Or even acknowledged? Even once?
It was bad enough before, but television has become completely unwatchable over the past few months with all this black shit.
If you wanted to instigate a race war isn't this exactly how to do it?Replies: @anonymousperson
"Is it March yet?"
“What Is the Future of Blackness? ”
The Future of blackness will resemble the Past of blackness prior to European influence, only then, it will be much worse.
Sadly, the average Canadian has zero idea his tax dollars (I say his because as a whole women do not add any revenue to the government) is funding this Value Village Black Mirror rip off Afro futurism nonsense.
At no point in its moons-of-Jupiter-denying worst did the church get this bad.
Sounds like satire: N’akeesha is not getting enough attention. She gets off the couch and up in people’s faces. Much better.… The homeboys quit balling for a few hours, conquer the world in the name of Blackness, solve all problems, go back to chillin’.
Actual example: Rebirth of the Afronauts: A Black Space Odyssey incorporates themes that are rarely explored in mainstream media: Afrofuturism, Afrofuturist music, reparations, space travel, destiny, language and technology in the future, identity and the African diaspora in North America. These themes and the storylines in the film are essential; they are rooted in history, while amplifying the voice of the next generation.
Yes, these themes are essential, and black themes are rarely, rarely! I tell ya, explored today.
Despite a few token StarFleet employees sci-fi is generally as white (and increasingly Asian) as any cultural genre I can think of — why imagine some dystopian future for blacks when they’re already such a hot mess right now?
Search black sci-fi writers and even google can’t scare up much. Gil Scott Heron’s 1980 is about the only piece of perceptive black sci-fi that comes to mind.
Nobody touches my hair – that’s cruel too; don’t you ever fergit this, folks. We live in a dark age and people have nothing but – black hair options on their way to infidelity? – Yeah, right. Absolutely unhair.
Their every preposterous fiction is presented as fact. Our painful facts aren’t even presented–they’re erased. 24/7/365. Just as our people are being erased. And we’re not even permitted to mention it.
The mass media is the mechanism by which all of this is happening.
Control of the mass media is everything.
They won’t be giving that up.
Not without a real fight.
An ugly, bloody fight.
I can’t imaging why my “fellow Whites” are broadcasting nothing but anti-White propaganda and encouraging a group of people already prone to violence that (1) Racism is worse than murder, and (2) All Whites are Racist, and (3) Black people are morally superior and any of their actions are justified.
If you wanted to instigate a race war isn’t this exactly how to do it?
I’ve NEVER seen any white person ask a black person if they could touch their hair. It simply doesn’t happen in the real world. Who would want to touch a greasy pile of Brillo Pad fur anyway?
In 2016, Canada counted 22% of the population as visible minorities. Surprisingly 3.5% of Canada is black.
The rest are either European or Aboriginal (who are 5% of the population).
My ding-dong liberal parents watch at least 2 news stories every day–sometimes more– about some black or woman overcoming oppression and being uplifted. They’ve been watching and listening to these stories for many years now. For the last 4 years, the news has consisted of nothing but sermonizing Hate Trump propaganda intermingled with minority overcoming obstacles stories. The news is almost nothing else.
I’m amazed the boredom factor never kicks in. They never get sick of hearing the same old tale with slight variations over and over again. I guess the same mentality makes people go to church and listen to boring sermons because they think it’ll do them good. You can understand how the Puritans stuck to their boring church-going so long.
Insanity is doing to the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you’re the same person after listening to a cluster of these stupid stories, listening to more of them won’t change your personality.
If you watch TV news today, you’re pretty pathetic, a classic inadequate personality who lives a colorless and boring life.
Dated a black girl once (ONCE). Black women shouldn’t really complain too much about exotification, as it’s pretty much all they bring to the dating game. Anyway, I did touch her hair, wasn’t that great, certainly not worth all the baggage that went with it. Toll paid, as they say.
In regards to the first episode, clearly the playwrights have never heard (or experienced) one of the numerous ratchet b’s that abound. Watch some YouTube or WWHipHop fast food place episode. There’s a real good Burger Kong vid where a patron went ratchet at a Florida panhandle BK restaurant. Guess she didn’t get it her way or sumtin.
Evers (and Hosea Williams) were (AFAIK) the only notables from that set who'd had agreeable careers which they laid aside in order to engage in political agitation; they were doing what they were doing at some cost to themselves, and Evers was eventually shot dead for his trouble. His three children had to watch him bleed out. This is an obscene act of piracy.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Anon
It’s for the best then that Till’s father was hung; he would have been embarrassed by a GAY son.
Manet foreshadowed this.
I’ll have the Bass Ale on the right.
Truly, that is a great photograph Steve is repeatedly using. Worthy of art. Art of our times.
I’d point out that Pharaohs enslaved Nubians by the countless thousands every single year, but that’s just the sort of thing someone like me would say, isn’t it.
Here, this is better. Everyone do the Wakanda Salute with me. Or you’re fired.
Still, I think we can all agree that it’ll be a much better world when black women are finally permitted to voice their various grievances, rather than remaining the silent, demure adornments to our society that they now are.
Who does this hair touching thing, seriously?
The rest are either European or Aboriginal (who are 5% of the population).Replies: @jcd1974, @bruce county
If you ever had the opportunity to watch Canadian TV, you’d think they comprise 40% of the Canadian population based on the commercials. Every single commercial features at least one black, usually as part of an interracial couple.
Sometimes I like to watch old videos on the Retsuprae YouTube channel. The idea is that two or three guys add silly commentary to footage of crappy video games.
One of the channel’s targets is the Canadian Ambition, a laughingly-inept but strangely-endearing Flash title from the early 2000s. The game is supposed to teach “negotiation techniques” but is so incompetently made that it becomes a kind of goofy comedy.
After many twists, turns, and non-sequiturs, the convoluted plot eventually boils down to this: a psychologist (Angie) is murdered by a corrupt policeman working for an evil business tycoon (Rolf) after she threatens to expose problems with an experimental psychotropic drug in which Rolf has a strong financial interest.
In some segments, the player takes on the role of an invisible advisor offering counsel to the characters. In others, the player becomes a character in his own right.
There are numerous side plots branching off from the main narrative. For example, at one point, Rolf’s girlfriend Bridget tries to gaslight her ex-husband Ted by injecting him with the drug, splattering fake blood all over his apartment (deluding him into believing that he has murdered their two children), and strapping a bomb to his body. When Ted (wearing the bomb) arrives at Rolf’s office and demands to see Bridget, the secretary calls the police. (The player must advise the cop as to how to proceed. Bad advice leads to an explosion.) Ted escapes arrest by jumping out the window and landing in the bed of a mattress truck (!). Angie is killed while Ted is still on the lam. Bridget then tries to frame Ted for Angie’s murder, but ends up incriminating herself and going on trial. (In the final segment, the player acts as her defense attorney.)
Ted’s lawyer is Yale, a black Mary Sue who is constantly described as brilliant and handsome. (He gives off a vague Obama-Oreo vibe.) Yale not only works for Rolf but is unhappily married to Rolf’s ball-busting daughter Helen. He’s desperate for a divorce but is loathe to alienate the old man.
Rolf is depicted as a literal fascist - at the time of Angie’s murder, he is giving an address at a “Fascist Party” fundraiser - but he has no problem with his daughter’s being married to a black man. So at least he’s not a Nazi.
Naturally, Yale is having an affair ... with Angie.
Yale’s problems are magnified when Helen finds out about his liaison with Angie. When he tries to break off the illicit relationship, Angie drops the bombshell that she’s pregnant. Then, less than an hour later, she is murdered.
Yale and Helen are such a dysfunctional couple that one wonders whether the creator of the game disapproves of interracial marriage. Even Angie is implied as having a few screws loose. In fact, just about every female character is depicted as a crazy harpy. Ambition is mildly pro-black-man but resolutely anti-white-woman.
Here’s a segment in which the player controls a policeman posing as a marriage counselor trying to trace Yale’s movements on the night of the murder. You can see that the game reeks of that peculiarly Canadian brand of lameness (seen in crappy syndicated TV shows such as Mutant X). The interracial aspect just adds another layer of cringe:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPCJO37v6o
Wait, doesn’t Canada already enjoy legions of black neurosurgeons? Just waiting for customers? Free healthcare and all.
What’s left to improve?
Who are more narcissistic, black males or black females?
Gee, didn’t Christian Cooper intentionally bring some candy to lure that poor Amy Cooper dog away from her?
Christian was the PERP, not the VICTIM.
The rest are either European or Aboriginal (who are 5% of the population).Replies: @jcd1974, @bruce county
Our prison system is over 25% indigenous and 8% black.. along with a large number of Middle Easterners.
I’d nominate all of these as actually being oppressive since they have somewhat coherent plots.
As always, it’s up to the queen to show them how it’s done.
“In summary … If you want a vision of the future, imagine a megaphone shouting critical race theory at a white servitor’s face — forever.”
Good stuff, Steve.
Catering to black fantasies is worse than discriminating against them.
It only makes them more violent and criminal.
You cannot fix stupid and 9 out of 10 are too stupid to live.
In the future, there will be no blacks.
China is already taking Africa away from these idiots.
The Dominican Republic is building the Great Wall of Hispaniola.
Nobody really likes them. They are a poor victim. They perp too much.
What is the fetish for these creatures?
Its a myth in a filthy lying book called The Babylonian Talmud.
You think blacks have magical thinking? This cruddy tome is all magical fantasy.
We must be mad, literally mad as a nation!
…the first to be administered an innovative treatment called Open Your Big Black Mouth.
Pretty sure such a “treatment” has been around for years and years and years.
No need to wait until 2042. At least that’s what my lying eyes and ears tell me.
Especially my ears.
Wow. I literally thought Steve was riffing with some over-the-top parodies until I went to the site and saw they were real. Some of these could be highly entertaining for intentional or unintentional reasons. I mean, a Medgar Evers-Emmitt Till gay love story! It’s like Mississippi Burning meets Brokeback Mountain. How could that go wrong? Especially since Emmitt is underage and it’s therefore also a gay pedophilia, time-travel, lynch victim, love story.
But I can’t believe Steve left out Rebirth of the Afronauts: A Black Space Odyssey. This is apparently Kubrick’s 2001 meets Chappelle’s Show 2002 Reparation Skit. The Director’s note states (unironically, I think), that “In mainstream media, I have not seen a film or TV show talking about reparations, reclamation of land and Black liberation in an Afrofuturist world. Especially from a Canadian point-of-view.” https://www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/21blackfutures/rebirth-of-the-afronauts
Luckily, he has finally corrected that oversight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhWisabXq4
It seems humor is now impossible, because every meaning must state the new orthodoxy, and humor requires ambiguity and unexpected. 1984 allusions are very appropriate.
Didn’t a private Black space crew try to claim Mars before Elon Musk?
Especially the commercials. The most egregious is T-mobile that starts off with a black guy and a blond white woman exclaiming, “We’re having a baby!’
2) Canada is far more cucked than the USA. They have job ads that require a “visible minority”.
Anyways, the future will be a lot more like Schindler's List with Jumbotrons. I don't see a realistic way around any of that. Or maybe there will be natural dieback?
I don’t know what the black future is. I do know we’re doing a great job of destroying ourselves. Total Sailer-bait:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classes
“White Supremacist Island”
It’s a great school district.
They forgot the one where Ms. Oumou (I’m beautiful when I’m angry) Kanoute edges Tracey (I’m beautiful when I’m fat) Abrams for Miss America. Ms. Gorilla Gluehair is 2nd runner up.
I thought this was Steve parody too!
It seems humor is now impossible, because every meaning must state the new orthodoxy, and humor requires ambiguity and unexpected. 1984 allusions are very appropriate.
Hey...btw...are the effects of black crime upon everyone else ever going to be considered? Or even acknowledged? Even once?Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Hammerjack, I thought black women were always fiances not brides.
Actually, I thought the original description ("A bride motors down a highway in her wedding dress") was a riff on Prince's 1980 smutfest Dirty Mind, particularly the triple-XXX "Head" (in which the Purple One seduces a virgin on her wedding day, as she was "on [her] way to be wed"). Then I realized Canadian blacks are too dull and boring to have dug Prince.
Johnny, try living on the border with the land of beavers and maple leafs to find out how bad TV can be. And, how come the liberal press doesn’t point out how badly trudeau is handling Covid and the vaccine? Ha ha, I know the answer.
To be fair, Slings and Arrows was also pretty good, although even they had to use Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall. If there were a Conservative TV Network, it would be fun to do a SCTV/Slings and Arrows style satirical series based on these woke sci/fi plots.Replies: @Ganderson
Here is the real shape of Canada, heavily influenced by Buffalo media. Toronto proper is more populous than five provinces, Greater Toronto than seven:
https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-canadian-election-cartogram-1024x456.jpg
So the director is a first generation African Canadian and he’s talking reparations and land reclamation? JFC…
First comment after yet another CBC black history month article:
“Is it March yet?”
Right you are, Hypno. I was a little more inclined to think them real even without checking the CBC site, since exposure to decades of the CBC would lead one to think this is exactly what they’d broadcast, and be proud of it.
“Unironically” indeed.
Someone mentioned to me today how vindictive the ascendant Left seems, and that this might be their downfall, as even “normies” will turn against them. These shows illustrate another characteristic: how downright childish they are. “Literally” as Joe would say. A happy lady doing her job preventing racism has to deal with mean people from White Supremacy Island, are you fucking kidding me? Are these adults writing for other adults? Stalin wept.
Speaking of which: “You’re The F**king Nuts” – Bill Maher Blasts New York’s “Insane” Woke School System https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/youll_never_believe_what_made_bill_mahers_audience_clap.html
Brits pay for BBC: Get Downton Abbey
Canadians pay for CBC: Get Schitt’s Creek.
Victoria has similar gratuitous silliness when the queen decides to adopt an African child.
Arguably, SCTV was the greatest thing ever on TV. Of course, that was premised on everything else sucking, so it’s literally an outlier. And the cast likely sucked up all the available talent.
To be fair, Slings and Arrows was also pretty good, although even they had to use Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall. If there were a Conservative TV Network, it would be fun to do a SCTV/Slings and Arrows style satirical series based on these woke sci/fi plots.
SCTV was fabulous: “Hey Giorgi”, “The Man Who Would be King of the Popes”, “Play It Again, Bob”, “The Great White North” and many many others!
I call BS on this meme that white women are constantly trying touch black women’s hair. It looks like a gross, smelly, sticky mess. Why would anyone want to touch it? And whites dance on egg shells around blacks. Not likely they’d want to unnecessarily interact like this.
Any white woman who actually wants to is likely a cloying, woke true believer ham handedly trying to curry favor with new black overlordstress in the work place.
I wonder how much of this “Don’t touch my hair” whining is just projection? People generally don’t just start messing with someone else’s hair in public – unless they are Joe Biden – so it cannot be a real problem. I don’t mean someone who is family or romantically involved, that’s diff – I mean the “random wypipo keep touching my Black Hair” fabulation. It’s not a thing. Yet we have these signs held up by seemingly normal black women…what? Why?
I think it’s a game of “You wanna touch my hair, don’t you! Oh, you do! Well, can’t touch this sucka!” in an attempt to get white people to actually want to touch black women’s hair.
But nobody wants to! Really! Fail!
Lisa Codrington = I, ignorant scold. Noodling racist. Doing contrails. Antic droolings.
As Harry S Truman put it, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
We don’t love Cil Brown’s work. We love Cilla Black’s work– Cilla Black, who was born White:
Gavin McInnes had a great observation once about how the Underground Railroad stretched all the way to a little town in Canada, which got a large black population as a result….and, for no reason whatsoever, the town became a crime-ridden trash hole.
Amazing!
Anyway, this crap is exactly the kind of screechy pabulum you’d get if you gave privileged, political high school sophomore girls grants to write whatever they wanted and never had an editor step in once to tell them it was crap.
Power fantasies, maudlin victimology narratives, self-beauty obsession, overwrought prose even in the titles, fleeting moment news stories made Relevant because They Happened When I Was Young And They Fit My Narrative—all wrapped up in crap writing and simplistic plotting. I’ll bet the narratives are chock full of references to Kim Kardashian’s fat behind and the latest empty-pop-singer’s ode for the ladies.
Lefties feel like the way to help blacks is to boost up any meager accomplishment, never criticize it as stupid or unworthy, and act amazed by it, celebrate it, fete it, and give it prizes. They think this will make blacks happy and satiate them. But instead it feeds blacks delusional egos into thinking they really are untouchable geniuses and the Only Reason They Are Held Back is Racism. Causes a lot more resentment and hate than if lefties merely demanded blacks meet the same standards and receive the same praise (and no more) than everyone else.
Because he lost the popular vote?
Here is the real shape of Canada, heavily influenced by Buffalo media. Toronto proper is more populous than five provinces, Greater Toronto than seven:
We could use a lot more Red Greens and a lot fewer Lisa Codringtons.
“Emmett” sounds like a decade-late urban-demographic version of “Brokeback Mountain”-esque slash fic that used to be popular among white and Asian women bloggers in the Bush-Obama years.
Similarly, the Shonda Rhimes and Stacey Abrams formula of High-Powered Attorney/Surgeon/CIA Lady In Peril is a bit of a throwback to what the Lifetime Channel used to produce in the late 90s; I believe the latter’s format has long since been optimized into cheaper reality-bride shows and dance -offs.
I can’t believe that is real.
Blackity, blackity, black for all eternity.
When I think of black women, depression, anxiety, and a reluctance to speak their minds are not exactly what comes to mind. To what degree is this sort of “entertainment” and the stuff like it the product of White projection of what they think being black must be like? Blacks who work in this medium are almost like minstrels, serving up a caricature of what goodwhites think of their black morality pets.
Taking the hint from Lisa Codrington, I have found that the most effective way to stimulate tactile sinistrotophilia is to go to a public place and hold up a placard saying DON’T TOUCH MY LEFT EAR!
“those of African origin rose from less than 1 percent of those not of British or French origin in 1971 to 3.4 percent in 1991.”
—Cultural Diversity in Canada: The Social Construction of Racial Difference– Changes in Ethnic and Racial Diversity
Canada got race right once. Making it the most civilized part of North America for a long, long time. But they’re clearly catching up to us in a hurry. As we are to them in following their example on bilingualism. Appuyez sur 2 pour l’espagnol. Presione 3 para francés.
I can only hope that future historians will look upon the current “woke” craze with the same puzzlement as we do today toward the Salem witch trials.
Richard John Neuhaus once said that every society gets sex wrong. Our country (at least in it's official aspect) continually gets race wrong. The closest we came to getting it right may have lasted from about 1945 to about 1963 in the northern United States generally, perhaps for a time earlier in loci like New England. (People in their mundane lives do a passable job; the problems arise when school administrators and lawyers begin harassing normal people).
The social optimum is approached when you have freedom of association, impersonal standards of performance and conduct, and intellectual interests driven by a search for quality and consequence. That's the last thing our professional-managerial class wants.
“In summary, in the future, there will be…the intoxication of power…the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.” – The essay
Agreed, the trampling is the future. But I must add this: The intoxication, the trampling, also describes the past, where it all began. I saw it first hand, because I was right there, at an elite New England university, during the late 60’s. Students like me, some faculty, and some deans could have done things to try to stop it. But we were lazy; and we were selfish, because we had too much to lose. We let you down.
Canada is lost.
50% of blacks living in Canada were not even born here. And only 5% have been here since the 1960’s. But our government acts like Canada was Brazil or the US deep south.
Getting real tired of blacks and their clown behavior.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a megaphone shouting critical race theory at a white servitor’s face – forever.”
That would be such an excellent meme, if only more people were familiar with 1984.
https://www.paintingmania.com/arts/edouard-manet/medium/bar-folies-bergeres-128_3851.jpgI'll have the Bass Ale on the right.Truly, that is a great photograph Steve is repeatedly using. Worthy of art. Art of our times.Replies: @Dieter Kief
Sigh. – If only he weren’t a second-rate artist (ok, just echoing the comments from last week for a bit of fun).
Then the black guy says “No, YOU are having a baby!”
Anyways, the future will be a lot more like Schindler’s List with Jumbotrons. I don’t see a realistic way around any of that. Or maybe there will be natural dieback?
It’s my impression that Canadian producers jumped on the diversity bandwagon even before Americans did.
Sometimes I like to watch old videos on the Retsuprae YouTube channel. The idea is that two or three guys add silly commentary to footage of crappy video games.
One of the channel’s targets is the Canadian Ambition, a laughingly-inept but strangely-endearing Flash title from the early 2000s. The game is supposed to teach “negotiation techniques” but is so incompetently made that it becomes a kind of goofy comedy.
After many twists, turns, and non-sequiturs, the convoluted plot eventually boils down to this: a psychologist (Angie) is murdered by a corrupt policeman working for an evil business tycoon (Rolf) after she threatens to expose problems with an experimental psychotropic drug in which Rolf has a strong financial interest.
In some segments, the player takes on the role of an invisible advisor offering counsel to the characters. In others, the player becomes a character in his own right.
There are numerous side plots branching off from the main narrative. For example, at one point, Rolf’s girlfriend Bridget tries to gaslight her ex-husband Ted by injecting him with the drug, splattering fake blood all over his apartment (deluding him into believing that he has murdered their two children), and strapping a bomb to his body. When Ted (wearing the bomb) arrives at Rolf’s office and demands to see Bridget, the secretary calls the police. (The player must advise the cop as to how to proceed. Bad advice leads to an explosion.) Ted escapes arrest by jumping out the window and landing in the bed of a mattress truck (!). Angie is killed while Ted is still on the lam. Bridget then tries to frame Ted for Angie’s murder, but ends up incriminating herself and going on trial. (In the final segment, the player acts as her defense attorney.)
Ted’s lawyer is Yale, a black Mary Sue who is constantly described as brilliant and handsome. (He gives off a vague Obama-Oreo vibe.) Yale not only works for Rolf but is unhappily married to Rolf’s ball-busting daughter Helen. He’s desperate for a divorce but is loathe to alienate the old man.
Rolf is depicted as a literal fascist – at the time of Angie’s murder, he is giving an address at a “Fascist Party” fundraiser – but he has no problem with his daughter’s being married to a black man. So at least he’s not a Nazi.
Naturally, Yale is having an affair … with Angie.
Yale’s problems are magnified when Helen finds out about his liaison with Angie. When he tries to break off the illicit relationship, Angie drops the bombshell that she’s pregnant. Then, less than an hour later, she is murdered.
Yale and Helen are such a dysfunctional couple that one wonders whether the creator of the game disapproves of interracial marriage. Even Angie is implied as having a few screws loose. In fact, just about every female character is depicted as a crazy harpy. Ambition is mildly pro-black-man but resolutely anti-white-woman.
Here’s a segment in which the player controls a policeman posing as a marriage counselor trying to trace Yale’s movements on the night of the murder. You can see that the game reeks of that peculiarly Canadian brand of lameness (seen in crappy syndicated TV shows such as Mutant X). The interracial aspect just adds another layer of cringe:
They can’t say it was something that happened once or twice in their childhood, they have to pretend it’s a real issue that happens with adults all the time.
Samuel R Delaney was an unironically great science fiction writer, and he is black (you might not guess it from his photograph though).
" the novel’s narrative is intermittently incoherent (particularly at its end)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren
I see he's still alive and no, Delaney doesn't look very black.
When I reviewed the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature for “National Review” in 1997, I remarked that Samuel R. Delaney was the only author in the 2500 page book that I’d heard of but didn’t know was black.
There’s a black woman sci-fi author of the next generation who is supposed to be legitimately good, but I really haven’t read much sci-fi since 1975, and most of that was 1950s stuff, along with skimming sci-fi magazines like “Analog” at the library in the early 1970s.
OK, Octavia E. Butler is who I am thinking of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
She was a graduate of Pasadena City College along with Jackie Robinson and my dad, so I am biased in her favor.
You’re both wrong. They’re baby mamas, and damn proud of it. Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis, wit’ all this “fiancée” thang?
Actually, I thought the original description (“A bride motors down a highway in her wedding dress”) was a riff on Prince’s 1980 smutfest Dirty Mind, particularly the triple-XXX “Head” (in which the Purple One seduces a virgin on her wedding day, as she was “on [her] way to be wed”). Then I realized Canadian blacks are too dull and boring to have dug Prince.
I’m surprised it is still called Gorilla Glue after that latest episode of its misuse.
One day you should take a look into subcontinental Indians and trucking in Canada. There’s your Canadian future.
In a spare moment I really will look at “The Sender”. An island exclusively for White Supremacists sounds great. Of course, if they are finally among their own kin and distant from all that drama, they cannot be called “supremacists”, technically – but what’s in a name?
An island exclusively for Whites is a great idea. Can we have it as quick as possible, please?
Notice that it's about "restrictions on the lives of residents". That could go two ways- either the residents aren't allowed to use anything invented by POCs, and we get a lecture on how POCs have invented everything. Or the residents are treated like blacks think they're treated by yt in the real world.Replies: @Art Deco
Jewish nepotism runs deep at the CBC.
CBC editorial management has a system: throw a dart at a spinning wheel. The spinning wheel has words written on it: the holocaust, first black to do (fill in the blank), South African apartheid (but not Israeli), southern slavery, civil rights movement, white racism (but not any other kind), immigrant success stories, immigrant victim stories, neo-nazis, aboriginal residential schools, evil United States, muslims trying to reunite their families in Canada, Sikhs suffering bigotry, black authors, Jewish anything.
Wherever the dart lands is the story of the day.
Somebody in the comment sections here a couple of years ago suggested an origin in young black girls feeling left out of white girl bonding rituals of combing and braiding each others’ hair, spoken to with kindness but kept literally beyond arm’s length. So the feeling would be you whites are always touching each other’s hair so why don’t you want to touch mine. This might especially be the case for first generation African immigrants parachuted into suburbia, rather than black Americans with their own communities and habits of keeping whites at arm’s length.
To be fair, Slings and Arrows was also pretty good, although even they had to use Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall. If there were a Conservative TV Network, it would be fun to do a SCTV/Slings and Arrows style satirical series based on these woke sci/fi plots.Replies: @Ganderson
I enjoyed Schitt’s Creek until it became obvious that it was just gay propaganda. (I’m not that bright)
SCTV was fabulous: “Hey Giorgi”, “The Man Who Would be King of the Popes”, “Play It Again, Bob”, “The Great White North” and many many others!
Although, my nephew is Aryan Nation blonde, and when he’s in southern Spain or Mexico (More in Mexico, cuz of all the Scandies who vacation in Spain) lots of people want to touch his hair- mostly little kids, though.
The panic in Salem lasted less than a year and some of the perpetrators covered themselves with sackcloth and ashes later.
Richard John Neuhaus once said that every society gets sex wrong. Our country (at least in it’s official aspect) continually gets race wrong. The closest we came to getting it right may have lasted from about 1945 to about 1963 in the northern United States generally, perhaps for a time earlier in loci like New England. (People in their mundane lives do a passable job; the problems arise when school administrators and lawyers begin harassing normal people).
The social optimum is approached when you have freedom of association, impersonal standards of performance and conduct, and intellectual interests driven by a search for quality and consequence. That’s the last thing our professional-managerial class wants.
Getting real tired of blacks and their clown behavior.Replies: @Ganderson
That can’t be true- I watch “The Murdoch Mysteries” and every third person in turn of the 20th century Toronto is black. (Or gay)
Delany I recall was always much more noted for being gay than black. He was quite good, as you say.
So, 21 Black Futures says that Medgar Evers was a pedo? Till was only 14 when he was killed.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classesReplies: @Paperback Writer
If you analyze the percentages, these programs are a thinly-veiled way of keeping heavily b&H public schools from becoming 99% b&H. Getting rid of these programs will accomplish that job.
Definitely black women.
Here I am reminded that NYC has a position known as “corporation counsel.” There are cities around NY whose official names are “the Corporation of the City of Buffalo.”
An island exclusively for Whites is a great idea. Can we have it as quick as possible, please?Replies: @Catdog
That’s the one that interests me the most.
Notice that it’s about “restrictions on the lives of residents”. That could go two ways- either the residents aren’t allowed to use anything invented by POCs, and we get a lecture on how POCs have invented everything. Or the residents are treated like blacks think they’re treated by yt in the real world.
Blacks know perfectly well how they're treated by whites. Gentry liberals wander around with fantasies in their heads about how blacks are treated by whites. Some blacks amuse themselves with performance art built around these fantasies.Replies: @anon
Too many psychologists.
I haven’t read all the comments, but it struck me what was happening and I wanted to share my insight.
Every society appears to need a scapegoat, someone to blame for things going wrong. The scapegoat role is independent of any reality. It doesn’t necessarily contradict reality, but if it reflects reality, that is coincidental.
The Jews used to be scapegoats for village or region catastrophes in the Middle Ages. Communists were scapegoats for problems like uppity colonial possessions in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The scapegoat itself is a biblical concept where a goat is released with all the sins of the village on its head.
It’s becoming pretty obvious that white people are becoming the scapegoats of society. Every time a dysfunctional black fails at something, or shoots another dysfunctional black, or a Somali stabs another Somali, or a neurotic female can’t sleep at night, it’s put on the heads of whites. Since whites are the official scapegoat, it’s perfectly acceptable to revile them, ostracize them and persecute them.
This is leading to a dark place. There is really no philosophical reason, according to popular thought, why whites can’t be attacked, persecuted, or killed. This is typified by the Soros-sponsored states attorneys who routinely release blacks who commit assault or murder against whites. Since whites are to blame for all the dysfunctions of non-white populations, it’s simply payback time. They sincerely believe this.
I emphasize the scapegoat meme is independent of facts. It’s driven by emotion, and also serves as a device to unify the community that does the scapegoating. So grifters like Maxine Waters, AOC, Ilhan Omar and the rest unify their base on the scapegoating of whites, and get very rich in the process. Whites who resist this scapegoating in any organized way get the full crush of the law against them.
Ordinary non-exotic white people. Professional-managerial types are usually the ones doing the effective scapegoating. (An exception is at the Dalton School, where educrats are scapegoating the children of patrician and haut bourgeois whites).
Non-stop Negrophilia (to use an antiquated term, perhaps Afrophilia would be more PC) is a central (perhaps the central) ritual/dogma in the religion of Wokeness, the new de facto state religion of modern Western elites. Maybe call it the Cult of perpetual negro veneration.
Blacks are 3.5% of Canada’s population- so they must be the central focus of everything by at least a factor of 8 or 9.
Similarly blacks are 13% of the US population but they have to be 70% of the people you see on commercials.
Notice that it's about "restrictions on the lives of residents". That could go two ways- either the residents aren't allowed to use anything invented by POCs, and we get a lecture on how POCs have invented everything. Or the residents are treated like blacks think they're treated by yt in the real world.Replies: @Art Deco
Or the residents are treated like blacks think they’re treated by yt in the real world.
Blacks know perfectly well how they’re treated by whites. Gentry liberals wander around with fantasies in their heads about how blacks are treated by whites. Some blacks amuse themselves with performance art built around these fantasies.
Yeah, we've noticed that.
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/05/Minneapolis-scaled.jpgReplies: @Art Deco
Blacks know perfectly well how they're treated by whites. Gentry liberals wander around with fantasies in their heads about how blacks are treated by whites. Some blacks amuse themselves with performance art built around these fantasies.Replies: @anon
Some blacks amuse themselves with performance art built around these fantasies.
Yeah, we’ve noticed that.
Downton of course promotes miscegenation by having the drop-dead gorgeous young Rose fall head over heels for the only black guy in the entire show.
Victoria has similar gratuitous silliness when the queen decides to adopt an African child.
“The full Gem experience is not available outside of Canada.”
Never a truer word spoken.
That lady got Gorilla Glue confused with Moco de Gorila, or snot gorilla gel:
https://www.mocodegorila.com/usa/en/gel/punk
Never works out, though. lol.
Libtard McNeil just got a dose of what he's been pushing for years. He lived by the libtard sword, now it's cut him deeply. Poetic justice, but not really relevant. Because it's very unlikely he'll change his positions in any substantial way; old dogs don't learn new tricks very well.
Evers (and Hosea Williams) were (AFAIK) the only notables from that set who'd had agreeable careers which they laid aside in order to engage in political agitation; they were doing what they were doing at some cost to themselves, and Evers was eventually shot dead for his trouble. His three children had to watch him bleed out. This is an obscene act of piracy.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Anon
Don’t you people know that there’s Jon Stewart/Steve Colbert MM romance stories out there where all they do is discuss stilted, stereotypical liberal politics between bouts of gay sex?
Man, I shouldn’t have looked any further. There’s MLK/Malcolm X slash stories out there.
Middle-aged, libtard fangirls are incredibly silly in their delusions and obsessions.
https://twitter.com/LionBlogosphere/status/1366436548858773504
https://twitter.com/LionBlogosphere/status/1366438386953838595Replies: @anon
Cuckservatives like HouseCat get good feelze from guys like McNeil because it spins up their bow ties to imagine “hurr durr, now the big boyz are gonna be on OUR side!. Winning! MOAR Journo-lists like McNeil, yay!”
Never works out, though. lol.
Libtard McNeil just got a dose of what he’s been pushing for years. He lived by the libtard sword, now it’s cut him deeply. Poetic justice, but not really relevant. Because it’s very unlikely he’ll change his positions in any substantial way; old dogs don’t learn new tricks very well.
Red Ice generally does a good job of excerpting or summarizing genocidal or pro-purge media products, which are downright common, and worse than any of these. There’s a near-genre of “watch Nazi Trump supporters die like a Castle Wolfenstein level.” If blacks are assembling marihuana-induced fantasies of ability and importance, and not fantasizing about murdering huge numbers of white people, this is actually an improvement.
If you wanted to instigate a race war isn't this exactly how to do it?Replies: @anonymousperson
A lot of those “fellow whites” belong to a certain tribe of people.
Adam Sandler already made this movie. (“Click” – 2006).
My impression is that in a pattern he has in common with Heinlein, Richard Morgan and other authors he started off writing excellent stories, and moved on to self-indulgent but not entirely meritless long novels featuring his perversions.
Every society appears to need a scapegoat, someone to blame for things going wrong. The scapegoat role is independent of any reality. It doesn't necessarily contradict reality, but if it reflects reality, that is coincidental.
The Jews used to be scapegoats for village or region catastrophes in the Middle Ages. Communists were scapegoats for problems like uppity colonial possessions in the 1950's and 1960's. The scapegoat itself is a biblical concept where a goat is released with all the sins of the village on its head.
It's becoming pretty obvious that white people are becoming the scapegoats of society. Every time a dysfunctional black fails at something, or shoots another dysfunctional black, or a Somali stabs another Somali, or a neurotic female can't sleep at night, it's put on the heads of whites. Since whites are the official scapegoat, it's perfectly acceptable to revile them, ostracize them and persecute them.
This is leading to a dark place. There is really no philosophical reason, according to popular thought, why whites can't be attacked, persecuted, or killed. This is typified by the Soros-sponsored states attorneys who routinely release blacks who commit assault or murder against whites. Since whites are to blame for all the dysfunctions of non-white populations, it's simply payback time. They sincerely believe this.
I emphasize the scapegoat meme is independent of facts. It's driven by emotion, and also serves as a device to unify the community that does the scapegoating. So grifters like Maxine Waters, AOC, Ilhan Omar and the rest unify their base on the scapegoating of whites, and get very rich in the process. Whites who resist this scapegoating in any organized way get the full crush of the law against them.Replies: @Art Deco, @Malla
It’s becoming pretty obvious that white people are becoming the scapegoats of society.
Ordinary non-exotic white people. Professional-managerial types are usually the ones doing the effective scapegoating. (An exception is at the Dalton School, where educrats are scapegoating the children of patrician and haut bourgeois whites).
Any white woman who actually wants to is likely a cloying, woke true believer ham handedly trying to curry favor with new black overlordstress in the work place.Replies: @Malla
White people of course do not do it but there are many cases of (mostly working class and villager) Indians in India touching black people’s (Africans) hair because they find it strange and weird.
Yeah, we've noticed that.
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/05/Minneapolis-scaled.jpgReplies: @Art Deco
That sort of thing is not built around fantasies, but from feral impulses that exist apart from any fantasies about white people.
You sure it isn't just advanced performance art?
Doesn't everyone burn books as part of the grieving process? How much more efficient to just burn bookstores!
https://i.imgur.com/cBeE9k5.png
Burnt offering on the altar of George Floyd.
Every society appears to need a scapegoat, someone to blame for things going wrong. The scapegoat role is independent of any reality. It doesn't necessarily contradict reality, but if it reflects reality, that is coincidental.
The Jews used to be scapegoats for village or region catastrophes in the Middle Ages. Communists were scapegoats for problems like uppity colonial possessions in the 1950's and 1960's. The scapegoat itself is a biblical concept where a goat is released with all the sins of the village on its head.
It's becoming pretty obvious that white people are becoming the scapegoats of society. Every time a dysfunctional black fails at something, or shoots another dysfunctional black, or a Somali stabs another Somali, or a neurotic female can't sleep at night, it's put on the heads of whites. Since whites are the official scapegoat, it's perfectly acceptable to revile them, ostracize them and persecute them.
This is leading to a dark place. There is really no philosophical reason, according to popular thought, why whites can't be attacked, persecuted, or killed. This is typified by the Soros-sponsored states attorneys who routinely release blacks who commit assault or murder against whites. Since whites are to blame for all the dysfunctions of non-white populations, it's simply payback time. They sincerely believe this.
I emphasize the scapegoat meme is independent of facts. It's driven by emotion, and also serves as a device to unify the community that does the scapegoating. So grifters like Maxine Waters, AOC, Ilhan Omar and the rest unify their base on the scapegoating of whites, and get very rich in the process. Whites who resist this scapegoating in any organized way get the full crush of the law against them.Replies: @Art Deco, @Malla
You got it the other way round. Colonialism is the scapegoat (which contradicts reality) Marxists use to explain why a lot of the World is so screwed up.
Heinlein closely followed the career of Nabokov. If VN could publish “Lolita” and not only not get in trouble but make a fortune off it, RAH could now publish “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
That sort of thing is not built around fantasies, but from feral impulses that exist apart from any fantasies about white people.
You sure it isn’t just advanced performance art?
Doesn’t everyone burn books as part of the grieving process? How much more efficient to just burn bookstores!
Burnt offering on the altar of George Floyd.
I tried reading Delaney’s “Dahlen” a couple times but only made it 40 or so pages before I was completely lost in the weeds. I kept getting hung up on his description of a string of semen bejeweled on someone’s leather pants zipper, as if it was a normal, everyday occurrence. From wikiepdia:
” the novel’s narrative is intermittently incoherent (particularly at its end)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren
I see he’s still alive and no, Delaney doesn’t look very black.
I was visiting my adult niece who has 2 girls and a baby boy. We were sitting in the living room with SpongeBob SquarePants on the tv when this commercial came on. I was infuriated, this is one of many spots Nickelodeon is running right now.