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http://www.afronerd.com/2020/07/afronerd-radios-grindhouse-airs-this.html

Hundalasiliah!....to our loyal Afronerd Radio "steam engine" listenership.  Welcome to the latest installment of The Grindhouse airing this Sunday at 6pm eastern.  Joining us this evening is Afronerd Radio's longtime favorite and erstwhile "west coast" (now southeastern) correspondent, Claire Lanay!!  So choose your favorite libation while you listen to your favorite blerd broadcast wax about the following topics:  word has it that the forthcoming HBO Max streaming service will be adding a TV spinoff based in the same universe as director, Matt Reeves' The Batman; and is the current zeitgeist allowing for another cop show in the aftermath of George Floyd protests and BLM prominence?; noted Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles causes a bit of a stir with her recent Vogue cover; Movieweb.com highlights the contributions of theoretical physicist, Dr. Clifford Johnson not only for his tutelage relating to real world scientific theory as applied to the MCU but also pertaining to his thoughts on how the Fantastic Four can be rebooted via The Black Panther; just what is  Amazon's Tales from the Loop series and why is it so mind-bending?; legendary actor, Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Mandalorian) makes an appearance in the trailer for the upcoming VG, Far Cry 6:



Why is Dburt just discovering Hero: Academia and its in season 4, already? maybe we'll pontificate on why we shouldn't discuss the Will and Jada live action soap opera costarring alleged R & B singer, August Alsina; with Keanu Reeves career rebound, is his version of Constantine what DC fans really want? (did Sting age out?); more on problematic Hollywood iconography, statues and monuments being put through the social justice strainer in the age of wokeness;  and lastly, TheMarySue.com ponders about LGBTQ representation in Disney's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.  Call LIVE at 508-645-0100.

Oh and what about those virtual comic cons?  Expectations for SDCC in two weeks.

All men have limits.  They learn what they are and learn not to exceed them.  I ignore mine-Bruce Wayne.


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https://www.themarysue.com/if-ice-doesnt-want-to-be-called-nazis-they-should-stop-acting-like-nazis/

ICE agents don’t want to be called Nazis, apparently. In a story out today from Newsweek, diving into the new Netflix series Immigration Nation, which debuts Monday many of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents that were interviewed and followed for three years for the documentary express how very very hard it is for them to get called names like “Nazi” and “racist.” They don’t want that to happen, to which we offer the following simple solution: Stop acting like racist Nazis!!!!

“To be called a Nazi, you know, a racist, you know, it’s just ignorant. It’s ignorant,” says one ICE agent, after lamenting that he loves his job—the job where he has to separate families, imprison children, and work for an authoritarian motivated by hate and racism … kinda like the Nazi soldiers did.

The story, and documentary, go into the practices of ICE under Trump, where they are encouraged to take more “collaterals” into custody—meaning when they make a targeted arrest or are there to take one specific person into custody, they are directed to take in everyone there that they can find who is also undocumented. This practice has resulted in a huge surge in undocumented people taken into custody.

Some agents in the series boast about how many people they arrest, while others refuse to take in collaterals. All of them, however, probably feel like those names they object to being called are unfair because they’re “just following orders” or just “doing their job”—which, as you may remember, was a famously rejected Nazi excuse.

“Now, the administration has changed, and we’re finally able to do our job,” one agent said. “To be honest with you, I honestly still cannot believe that he’s our president. It’s the best thing and the worst thing that could have happened to us.”

Celebrating that you have permission to “do your job” and round up non-white people? Sounds a lot like something a Nazi would say.

At the Nuremberg Trials of captured Nazis after WW2, several defendants used the defense “Befehl ist Befehl” (an order is an order).

Wilhelm Keitel: Executed
Alfred Jodl: Executed
Julius Streicher: Executed
7 others: Executed

It’s not a defense.https://t.co/2rXAD8D1rt

— JRehling (@JRehling) July 30, 2020

Nothing like the actions of our own government to get “Nazis” trending on twitter!

Most people know only like four things the Nazis said, and “I was only following orders” is five of them https://t.co/GduJjiwEGO

— Alex (@AlexFirer) July 30, 2020

In an effort to distance themselves from Nazis, ICE agents invoke the . . . checks notes . . . Nuremberg defense. https://t.co/nluCEfH6ra

— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) July 30, 2020

And for any agent that feels hurt by this comparison: tough. You may have a job, but you also have free will. At any point, you can avoid that comparison by no longer doing the things that make it a valid one, rather than relying on an excuse that just strengthens it. Yes, I get that you may have a family to feed, but I think it’s reasonable to expect you to figure out an alternative when the job supporting your family is tear apart other families.

If working for ICE is more important to you than human rights, then you might be a Nazi. And if your only defense for committing indefensible acts is “I was just following orders,” congrats, you’re a Nazi and a coward.

(via Newsweek, image: Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

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https://www.essence.com/news/herman-cain-dead-covid-19/

Former Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has died after weeks of battling the coronavirus, a statement posted on his personal website on Thursday confirmed.

“You’re never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning. But we have no choice but to seek and find God’s strength and comfort to deal with it,” the post read. “Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away.”

Cain was 74.

Earlier this month, the businessman and presidential candidate had been hospitalized due to the virus. When he was first hospitalized, his team noted that it is not clear how Cain contracted the virus, as he “did a lot of traveling” prior to his hospitalization.

However, before he tested positive, Cain, who is also the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, attended Donald Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla.

“We honestly have no idea where he contracted it. I realize people will speculate about the Tulsa rally, but Herman did a lot of traveling the past week. I don’t think there’s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected. We’ll never know,” Cain’s website editor Dan Calabrese noted at the time.

In the post announcing Cain’s death, Calabrese revealed that the former presidential hopeful had experienced trouble breathing and that “it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle”

Cain is survived by his wife, Gloria, his children Melanie and Vincent, and his grandchildren.

The post Herman Cain, Former Republican Presidential Candidate, Dies Of COVID-19 appeared first on Essence.

http://www.afronerd.com/2020/07/the-mid-week-in-review-mwir-airing-at.html

E nle o ("hello in Yoruba language), to our staunch Afronerd Radio listeners.  Welcome to another fact finding mission dubbed The Mid Week in Review-airing this Wednesday at 8pm, courtesy of BTalk 100.  Join your "ever lovin" AFROnerdist broadcasters as they unravel the following (mid) weekly mysteries:  we continue to decipher more pop culture blerdy/nerdy revelations coming out of this past weekend's first virtual SDCC Comic Con @Home event spurred on by current coronavirus circumstances; and as expected, it appears that "Hollywood East" dba NYC, is looking to create a virtual NY Comic Con too; picking up where we left off, there were still other topics we failed to address via last Sunday's Grindhouse show; an Atlantablackstar.com piece reports that investors are subsidizing African startups just not the ones created or helmed by black folk; Arkansas Senator, Tom Cotton has caused quite a stir with his remarks about US slavery being a "necessary evil":




thoughts about the shooting of rap artist, Megan Thee Stallion and how it really unpacks the notion of larger karmic issues in current corporate black pop music; more musings about the exhibition fight scheduled between retired boxing giants Mike Tyson and Roy Jones, Jr.; just what was behind the budding "comicsgate" controversy involving graphic novelist, Tom King (Rorschach) and illustrator, Jae Lee; yet another new comic hits the speculators market and it's Catwoman #23 (guess who the new character reveal is this time);



And lastly, maybe it was kismet that as soon as Dburt was revisiting a '17 Vulture article entitled, "Why Can't Black Witches Get Some Respect in Popular Culture?", legendary actress, Angela Bassett lowkey pitched a prequel for her portrayal of famed New Orleans priestess, Marie Laveau in American Horror Story via twitter.  Call in LIVE at 508-645-0100.


"Not long ago, I wondered if I'd lost my soul, even my identity, by becoming a machine-and maybe even a monster. But I wasn't a monster.  I was who I'd always been. And my soul is still intact.  In fact, now my soul needed the machine to embark on its journey to the next evolutionary step for humankind. It was a journey I relished taking, the only way I could-As Cyborg."-Victor Stone (Cyborg)


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