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BG said:
First thing I saw Renner in..

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anne25 said:
😟 Sidney Poitier age 94 died today.
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I was having a heated discussion on Facebook about the practice of calling people out as "Uncle Tom's" and today Poitier's name came up. My adversaries were full of phony outrage at my use of what they claimed is a racist term. But knowing them to be staunch right wingers I saw through that BS tactic. In truth they don't care if it's a racist term or not; they just want a way to be able to deny that Uncle Tom's exist.

Whatever that term used to mean from a racial aspect, today I would say that anyone from any oppressed minority group, be it racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender or whatever else, can be an Uncle Tom if they cozy up to the very people who hate them in a pathetic attempt at personal gain.

That idiot you see at every Trump rally wearing that "Blacks for Trump" t-shirt? That's an Uncle Tom if ever I saw one. Same goes for Candace Owens, who has been trying to normalize Trump for the last 5 years. And Republican goons like Lindsay Graham and Madison Cawthorn, who are both as queer as a $3 bill, pretending to be "family values" politicians who vote in favor of legislation that strips gay people of their rights. Both of them are "uniform tangos" in my view. Ditto for Ben Shapiro, the self-loathing Jew who supports and defends the very types of people who would happily throw him into an oven if given half a chance. They all sold out their people for personal gain. That, to me, is what an Uncle Tom is in 2022.

And then today, Sidney Poitier dies. I read his obit and this leaps off the screen:

"He said he felt a responsibility to represent Black excellence at a time when the vast majority of movie stars were white and many Black performers were relegated to subservient or buffoonish roles. He came to be seen as an elder statesmen in the film industry, celebrated for his social conscience and admired for his regal bearing. “I felt very much as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made,” Poitier once wrote about the experience of being the only Black person on a movie set."

This was a man who NEVER EVER sold out in order to pimp his own brand and get ahead and he never would have lowered himself to Donald Trump's level the way Kanye West and too many others did.

Rest in peace, Mister Tibbs.
 
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X-Men '97: Cal Dodd aka Logan/Wolverine Checks In From The Studio

With X-Men '97 set to hit Disney+ some time in 2023, Cal Dodd aka Logan/Wolverine checked in via Twitter from the recording studio.
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set to premiere some time in 2023, the new series will explore existing and new stories set within the '90s timeline of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series. But it's not just the characters and storyline that are returning. Series alums Cal Dodd as Logan/Wolverine, Lenore Zann as Anna Marie/Rogue, George Buza as Hank McCoy/Beast, Adrian Hough as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Christopher Britton as Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister, Catherine Disher as Jean Grey, Chris Potter as Remy LeBeau/Gambit, Alison Sealy-Smith as Ororo Munroe/Storm, and Alyson Court as Jubilation Lee/Jubilee are also expected to return
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So awesome.
 
Finished up Mayor of Kingstown. I really liked it. It's kinda like if Ray Donovan decided to move from celebs to cops/prison guards/prisoners/gangsters.
 
Anyone watch the whole season of Dexter?

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Can't say I was shocked by the ending, but I didn't love it. There was no real sense in him killing the cop and then him being killed off imo.
 
Habspatrol said:
Anyone watch the whole season of Dexter?

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Can't say I was shocked by the ending, but I didn't love it. There was no real sense in him killing the cop and then him being killed off imo.
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Yes, and for the most part it was fine, but at at the end of the day, mostly unnecessary
 
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