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Welcome to the latest episode of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review broadcast airing every Wednesday at 8 p.m. eastern on BTalk 100.  Listen to your "Immortal" AFROnerdist hosts as they wax about these (mid) weekly topics: well the verdict is literally in-former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd; we will analyze, unpack and discuss per usual; my, how the mighty have fallen!  perhaps, just a bit.....streaming giant, Netflix missed first-quarter subscriber targets but aims to spend 17B on new content including delving into the videogaming sector;  two new and promising projects via Kickstarter to discuss-Noir is the New Black and MUTINY Magazine and both are available courtesy of Fair Square Comics;        

And then there's the new teaser trailer for Marvel's highly anticipated Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings film-

Revisiting our previous discussion regarding the notion of "black pain porn" cinema with the critically acclaimed Netflix short, Two Distant Strangers; Lastly, our thoughts about the 1700 word rant written by the father of a student attending an elite NYC prep school over its new racial doctrine that he believes is tantamount to brainwashing.  

Oh and then there's more Netflix goodies....the Chinese 3D animated film, New Gods: Nezhu Reborn, and the completely engaging S2 trailer for LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS that just hit the cyberwebs:

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As we all know, what’s considered “good” is purely and highly subjective. Even our own tastes are subject to change depending on our moods. But in this “best of” debate, there is one comic that has always been in my top 5 best comics/graphic novels of all time, from the moment I read it. It fundamentally changed how I read comics, how I viewed the medium, and it gave me a greater and more profound appreciation of what the comic form could do. 

Television adaptations of fantasy books tend to have a bad reputation. Many fans of such novels are so protective of their favorite characters and storylines that there is added pressure for studios to get the story right. So when Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling novel Shadow and Bone was first announced to be made into a television series for Netflix, all eyes were on showrunner and executive producer Eric Heisserer to bring this world to life in a way that would do it justice. Heisserer took on the difficult task to not only adapt Shadow and Bone into eight episodes, but to also include the characters from Bardugo’s Six of Crows duology, which is set at a different point in time in the novels. With Bardugo consulting on the script and phenomenal casting, Shadow and Bone is absolutely remarkable. 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pushing for a House vote to formally censure Rep. Maxine Waters over comments she made this weekend while visiting Brooklyn Center, Minnesota to show support for protesters.

“We’ve got to stay in the street and demand justice,” Waters told reporters, per CNN. As the country waits for a verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial, Waters said, “We’re looking for a guilty verdict” and that if that doesn’t happen, “then we know that we got to not only stay in the street, but we have got to fight for justice.”

When asked what protesters should do if the verdict does not come back guilty, Waters said, “We’ve got to stay on the street. And we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”

McCarthy claims that Waters’ remarks “incited violence.”

He also criticized Waters for breaking the city’s curfew, but as Waters pointed out, a police-imposed curfew to silence people protesting police violence is an unjust rule and doesn’t deserve to be heeded.

“I don’t think anything about curfew. Curfew means I want you all to stop talking. I want you to stop meeting. I want you to stop gathering. I don’t agree with that,” she said.

Still, McCarthy and other House Republicans are pushing for a vote to censure Waters, likely to happen Wednesday. It’s absolutely ridiculous for so many reasons. These are the same people who did semantics backflips to convince themselves that when Donald Trump told his protesters to “fight,” he wasn’t calling for violence, even though they immediately went and violently breached the Capitol building.

But when Waters says protesters need to be “confrontational,” they assume she means violence. The double standard is hypocritical, it’s racist, and it’s in total bad faith.

.@AOC on Republican effort to censure Rep. Maxine Waters: “For a bunch of people who care so much about alleged cancel culture, they’re out here trying to censure everybody in the book for anything they don’t agree with.”

— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) April 20, 2021

Moreover, it’s just incredible that these Republicans feel the need to condemn Democrats, given the state of their party–the party that includes Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and so many more toxic trash fires.

Wait, they’re going to censure Maxine Waters, but a guy who walked around showing pornographic photos on the floor of the House is just hunky-dory?

— Laura Lorson (@prairielaura) April 20, 2021

And that’s exactly what Waters’ colleague Rep. Hakeem Jeffries told McCarthy today.

Speaking to reporters, Jeffries said McCarthy “should focus on his own conference, because the Republicans in the House are a mess right now.”

“When you’ve got a situation where Lauren Boebert is a mess, Matt Gaetz is a mess, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a mess–Clean up your mess, Kevin,” Jeffries said.

“Sit this one out. You’ve got no credibility. Here, we support peaceful protests.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) slams Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for wanting to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA):

“Lauren Boebert is a mess. Matt Gaetz is a mess. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a mess. Clean up your mess, Kevin.” pic.twitter.com/OpenTDA9xx

— The Recount (@therecount) April 20, 2021

For the record, in an interview with The Grio, Rep. Waters clarified what didn’t really need clarifying for anyone but those interpreting her words in bad faith: that she is “nonviolent.”

“I talk about confronting the justice system, confronting the policing that’s going on, I’m talking about speaking up. I’m talking about legislation. I’m talking about elected officials doing what needs to be done to control their budgets and to pass legislation,” she said.

She also said that she is “not intimidated” and she is “not going to be bullied” by Republicans because this is just what they do anyway, all the time, no matter what.

“Republicans will jump on any word, any line and try to make it fit their message and their cause for denouncing us and denying us, basically calling us violent … any time they see an opportunity to seize on a word, so they do it and they send a message to all of the white supremacists, the KKK, the Oath Keepers, the [Proud] Boys and all of that, how this is a time for [Republicans] to raise money on [Democrats] backs,” Waters said.

(image: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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