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May 8, 2017
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/08/american-gods-delivers-a-powerful-black-lives-matter-message
American Gods Delivers a Powerful Black Lives Matter Message
American Gods is one of my favorite novels. I don't watch much TV--this adaptation is so far simply incredible.
It begins on a slave ship, in the cramped, fire-lit hull where stolen men sit chained by the hundreds. One man, face beaded with sweat and desperation, cries out to African spider god Anansi, the trickster: These strange men have tied my hands, he quivers.
Help me from this place and I will sing to you all my life.
The god appears, anachronistically dapper in a fresh-pressed purple suit and fedora. He laughs. Anansi, or Mr. Nancy as hes called in Americaone of the old-world mythological gods competing for worship in the fantastical universe of Starzs American Godsagrees to help. But first, he tells a story.
Once upon a time, a man got fucked, he begins. Now how is that for a story? Cause that the story of black people in America.
He grins impishly at the mens blank expressions, then remembers: Shit! he says. You all dont know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment these Dutch motherfuckers set foot here and decided that they white and you all get to be blackand thats the nice name they call you? Let me paint a picture of whats waiting for you on the shore
The god appears, anachronistically dapper in a fresh-pressed purple suit and fedora. He laughs. Anansi, or Mr. Nancy as hes called in Americaone of the old-world mythological gods competing for worship in the fantastical universe of Starzs American Godsagrees to help. But first, he tells a story.
Once upon a time, a man got fucked, he begins. Now how is that for a story? Cause that the story of black people in America.
He grins impishly at the mens blank expressions, then remembers: Shit! he says. You all dont know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment these Dutch motherfuckers set foot here and decided that they white and you all get to be blackand thats the nice name they call you? Let me paint a picture of whats waiting for you on the shore
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/08/american-gods-delivers-a-powerful-black-lives-matter-message
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