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Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:38:20 No.2563014 [Reply] [Original]

Quoted by: >>2563226

I need a liberal arts credit to satisfy "tolerance and intolerance in the US"

So I'm taking African-American Lit next semester.

What should I expect?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:43:20 No.2563021 I imagine you'll be reading some stories written by niggers.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:43:20 No.2563020 lol @ modern academia

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:52:19 No.2563026 Quoted by: >>2563033 >>2563301 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:53:19 No.2563027 you can start by killing yourself, op

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:57:19 No.2563033 >>2563026 Yep. When I took a similar class I also got "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin and "The Outsider" by Richard Wright. You probably will too.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 14:59:19 No.2563038 Quoted by: >>2563054 >Tolerance and intolerance in the US >African-American Lit Good luck getting anything related with 'tolerance' out of the course, especially if an angry PhD candidate is the instructor.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 15:14:19 No.2563052 Quoted by: >>2563301 Expect some of the best literature the United States has produced. Especially Richard Wright, fucking genius.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 15:14:19 No.2563054 Quoted by: >>2563056 >>2563038 The idea is that tolerance is the goal. I realize black people don't write much about how nice white folk are to them.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 15:16:19 No.2563056 Quoted by: >>2563124 >>2563175 >>2563054 Shockingly, in a lot of cases we haven't been very nice to them.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 15:55:20 No.2563124 >>2563056 typical white guilt liberal spotted

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:21:19 No.2563175 Quoted by: >>2563186 >>2563056 >I love black people >I never had one over for dinner >I engaged in wrongful actions before I was born >so sorry

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:26:19 No.2563185 Quoted by: >>2563187 Expect a lot of really hot black radical feminist types who have a secret fetish for their white oppressors.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:28:20 No.2563186 Quoted by: >>2563196 >>2563175 That's some cool race bait man. You get that at stormfront? They make quality stuff. Mhmm.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:29:20 No.2563187 >>2563185 but I'm chinese!

Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:32:19 No.2563192

Quoted by: >>2563198

this thread is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo badddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

the best part is where op should expect to find hot radical bitches with unrelaxed hair who secretly thirst for white guys in cargo shorts who made a thread on /lit/ to find the best translation of crime and punishment and then never read the copy they bought as a result

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:35:19 No.2563196 Quoted by: >>2563209 >>2563217 >>2563186 Don't be angry because you profess to love black people even though you want nothing to do with them in your personal life.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:35:19 No.2563198 File: 679 KB, 150x150, 1207513316464.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2563192 >sage on /lit/ That's cute.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:36:19 No.2563203 why are you taking liberal arts in the first place?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:41:19 No.2563209 Quoted by: >>2563273 >>2563196 Yes, leave it to a liberal to preach what everyone else should be doing for a "better world" while doing the opposite themselves.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:45:24 No.2563217 Quoted by: >>2563278 >>2563196 I don't love black people. I don't love any people. I'm a misanthrope. I do enjoy african-american literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:45:24 No.2563218 File: 565 KB, 1066x1600, 2014190_10-xl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Quoted by: >>2566101 I'm taking "Asian Thought & Behavior next semester to fulfill a similar requirement. >pic related, what I hope the class entails

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 16:47:19 No.2563226 >>OP >What should I expect? Have you taken an English class before? or whatever? Expect reading, expect writing. Fuck.

Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:03:19 No.2563273

>>2563209
To clarify, I'm a liberal but I don't subscribe to the ideology of white guilt. Do you know how repulsive black and Hispanic people find it when some white person is trying to placate them like a child? They hate it. I treat them based on the way they act.

I'm so tired of these guiltyfags telling me what I should do when they treat black people like deadly animals on the endangered species list--majestic but dangerous beings best admired in magazines, movies, and television. It's all shit. They're just people. They keep 'reminding' them how different we all are and prevent the healing process. It's like picking a scab.

These politically correct idiots walk around doing a disservice to everybody, including themselves, and embarrass the fuck out of everybody near them.

>150 YEARS AGO YOUR GRANDFATHER'S GRANDFATHER WAS ABUSING SLAVES (untrue in all cases I was able to find in my family lineage going back to the 1600s)
The black corallary to that is
>YOUR GRANDFATHER'S GRANDFATHER WAS A SLAVE

Now think about it, of I'm supposed to feel bad for slavery, how are blacks supposed to feel? Disempowered. Alienated. Distraught.

Fucking idiots.
Sorry, I mad.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:04:19 No.2563278 Quoted by: >>2563305 >>2563217 What is all this "we weren't so nice to them" business about then?

>>	Libertarians to the Gas Chambers !!uPKdrNrz+AI Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:10:19 No.2563291 Quoted by: >>2563292 haha I'm taking this to /pol/.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:11:19 No.2563292 >>2563291 link please

Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:14:19 No.2563301

>>2563026
>>2563052
these

invisible man is one of the most expansive and thrilling of the 'great american novel' genre, zora neale hurston's diction is masterly, toni morrison's prose is incomparably lush with texture, image and color. and then there is also langston hughes.

and that's just off the top of my head. there really is a fantastic, rich body of afro-american literature out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:17:19 No.2563305 Quoted by: >>2563312 >>2563278 They were dealt a pretty shitty lot for a long ass time. I don't have to love them to acknowledge that.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:18:19 No.2563312 Quoted by: >>2563316 >>2563305 >we

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:20:19 No.2563316 Quoted by: >>2563333 >>2565191 >>2567049 >>2563312 Yes, we. White people, more generally the institutions of power in the United States.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:30:19 No.2563333 >>2563316 >institutions of power Now you're thinking with your head.

Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:40:20 No.2563360

It's often a classist narrative. I don't know about you, but my ancestors employed no slaves; they were poor. The assumption is that 'we' are middle-class or higher.

In fact, 'they' do not find this narrative 'repulsive'. Many do, but you won't be encountering them, you'll be encountering the community of pious liberal mediocrities who earn a living working this circuit. You'll encounter the work of hammy poets whose delivery seems to be based on Mike Myers in So I Married an Ax Murderer, and people who have spent decades as 'community leaders' who stand by beliefs that are patently absurd. This is the only class, for instance, where you may have to listen to the work of someone who thinks that 'the J00z did 9-11' and that raping women is a political act. So... yeah. If you enjoy pretending to give a fuck and competing with your fellow students to see who can most extremely eat shit and remain convincing, this is the class for you.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 14, 2012 17:50:19 No.2563387 i ain't ever done read no nigger scribbles and i ain't gonna be startin now

>>	Anonymous Sun, Apr 15, 2012 06:48:19 No.2565191 >>2563316 go fuck yourself you anti-white racist, if you love niggers so much - you know, if you've got the jungle fever - then go fucking mate with them. Don't force us to mingle with the rest of your filth you multi-cultist jew

Anonymous Sun, Apr 15, 2012 07:03:20 No.2565214

Oh /lit/, I am disappoint. I expected better.

In any case, if you are reading about African-American lit, there was an important book just published titled, "the cross and the lynching tree" by James Cone. It's a pretty quick and easy read, and it'll give you a tone for what your semester will be like, plus it'll introduce you to some important African American voices. Plus, if you go into class looking like you know what you're talking about, you'll get the attention of the black chicks taking the class. Score with one of them, OP. Do it for the rest of us here at /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Apr 15, 2012 16:52:40 No.2566096 Quoted by: >>2567050 >So I'm taking African-American Lit next semester. >What should I expect? Some really depressing writing. The Black experience before about 1970 was seriously fucked up.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Apr 15, 2012 16:54:41 No.2566101 Quoted by: >>2567035 >>2563218 She's actually Swedish. Anyway, reported for nsfw on a blue board.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:28:41 No.2567035 File: 153 KB, 1456x872, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2566101 >blue board lol

Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:35:40 No.2567049

Quoted by: >>2567063

>>2563316
black president, non-whites the majority on the supreme court....
what institutions of power?
The jew run federal reserve?
The jew run media?

If it was so horrible to bring them to the new world for a better life, then obviously we should ship em back to africa.

Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:36:40 No.2567050

Quoted by: >>2567063

>>2566096
>The Black experience before about 1970 was seriously fucked up.

Typical brainwashed liberal.
You are aware that blacks are universally worse off NOW then 50 years ago? Imagine how awful it was when blacks worked, had families, and weren't criminal violent subhumans.
oh and had neighborhoods too.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:43:40 No.2567063 File: 55 KB, 290x288, let him rot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2567050 >>2567049

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:43:40 No.2567067 Quoted by: >>2567071 >>2567202 Is there particular reason why stormfags have been invading /lit/ the past few weeks? Or is it one solitary misguided fool who keeps starting battles he cannot possibly win?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:46:41 No.2567071 Quoted by: >>2567081 >>2567202 >>2567067 It's two guys tops.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:51:40 No.2567081 Quoted by: >>2567084 >>2567071 I'm not tired of fighting them, but I am tired of threads being derailed.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:53:40 No.2567084 Quoted by: >>2567090 >>2567081 I've fought them numerous times and won easily. They're neither a challenge nor an amusement.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 24:58:41 No.2567090 Quoted by: >>2567097 >>2567084 Hence my exhaustion at the derailing of threads. I mean, it's 2012, who still fucking believes in Holocaust denial? Get a new conspiracy theory!

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 01:00:41 No.2567097 File: 45 KB, 350x473, Beckettrieur.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2567090 >holocaust >real

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 01:07:40 No.2567108 sage

>>	sage sage Mon, Apr 16, 2012 02:16:42 No.2567202 >>2567071 >>2567067 I don't think it's just one guy. Right wing extremists are like rats, once they find some place where mods are lazy enough to let them stay, they'll come in masses.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Apr 16, 2012 07:25:41 No.2567423 Bump for more genuine discussion of the great works of African American literature in spite of stormfags seeping out of /pol/. Is there any good contemporary black lit? Or is its time pretty much done with?

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