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ismnotwasm

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Mon May 8, 2017, 12:06 PM May 2017

American Gods Delivers a Powerful Black Lives Matter Message [View all]

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 he’s called in America—one of the old-world mythological gods competing for worship in the fantastical universe of Starz’s American Gods—agrees 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 men’s blank expressions, then remembers: “Shit!” he says. “You all don’t 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 black—and that’s the nice name they call you? Let me paint a picture of what’s 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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I have this on my machine to watch... Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1
K&R nt The Polack MSgt May 2017 #2
What's powerful to me about this adaptation ismnotwasm May 2017 #3
We watched one episode JustAnotherGen Jun 2017 #7
That monologue was incredible. sweetloukillbot May 2017 #4
Just started watching without having read the book. RandySF Jun 2017 #5
About Anasi RandySF Jun 2017 #6
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