Anyone else read/reading "The Sellout" by Paul Beatty?

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>>8785213
>tfw when to intelligent to read african american authors

>>8785213
i'm sellout-curious i guess, if i see an audiobook torrent i'll cop it, but when i actually have time to sit and read off a dead tree i gotta go with something more canonical

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>>8785241
Fair enough friendo. If you want to get a temporary email address and post it in the thread I'll link you the .epub at least (could probably find an audiobook as well if it exists), but I get that there's only so many books to read as well.

>>8785218
I've always found it funny that the only people who refer to black people as "african-americans" are either trying to hide their power level among the easily-(racially)-agitated or are socially "liberal" folks who have never actually had black friends and wouldn't want them.

>>8785282
i use the term african-american in real life because it's the politically correct term and i value my career, PoC is the term rich suburban liberals use for their one black friend who was actually the daughter of indo-caribbean bourgeois but is counted as black for affirmative action purposes and seems black to people who have only met other whites and mexican maids

>>8785295
That makes sense then, but I really doubt anyone would take issue with "black people" or "the black community" unless they already have a problem with the person using them. It's not the same as "them blacks" or "the Black." Also, I've seen PoC used mostly by white people either generalizing the various social environments of literally everyone but themselves (usually in order to say why they would lead every minority to agree with them politically) or by (also) whites to attempt to frame the struggle of invisible or not-significantly stereotyped ethnicities (European Latino, Slavic, white-North African, "Jewish" etc.) alongside that of blacks and mestizos for whatever reason. In either case the same type who think that they can immunize themselves from accusations of entitlement by displaying white guilt.

I can tell you right now that most black people would be cooler with a white dude who consistently says "nigger" with a hard r but isn't entitled than any of them.

>>8785346
i agree to a certain extent, but at my work we have this form everyone has to fill out to use our services and there's a race checkbox some bureaucrat came up with, it's probably mandated by the federal govt, and it says "black" and on the rare occasion anyone cares it's usually an african-american person getting buttblasted about it like "you ain't supposed to say that no mo, just sayin" but blacks from africa or latin america don't give a shit...one time i did have a irish-american man with very poor social skills go on a rant about it wasn't fair that he could be denied services for being white...i'm like who said anything about denying you anything? we just have to send that shit to the government, calm down fool

>>8785361
Oddly enough, Reginald D. Hunter once called Irish people "white people without the entitlement." Also some major magazine (no source so don't believe it if you don't want to) said something like "With JFK's election as president, the country has begun to see the Irish as almost white."

And yeah, I've never done salaried office work, that sounds like fucking shit. Not to mention that it seems like it'd be a bigger obstacle to continued employment for black people, like you mentioned in your post. What pisses me off is that nobody who isn't a fucking shill actually thinks that way; it's totally an issue of bureaucratic regulation of corporations that are too fucking big to handle themselves. Imagine starting your own company and hiring a middle manager you trust so little that you can't expect him to deal with open racism; that's just dumb business. So many companies give so little of a shit that they'll hire a manager that they can't trust to do anything without a handbook. It's the same bullshit in other industries; like I'd rather get my groceries scanned by someone who doesn't have the expression of a third-rate prostitute than someone with their shirt tucked in who's standing up straight.

>>8785404
It's true the Irish were discriminated against but like any big group of Catholics they used their numbers to take over various semi-governmental functions like police and fire departments, the same way Italians took over sanitation and shipping. So the Irish may never have had the work ethic to succeed banking or high technology, but they still did their fair share of discriminating in labor tier careers.

>>8785434
In America that's definitely been the case. Legit Italians for sure (as in, having been raised exclusively in Italian communities) are possibly the most openly discriminatory people in America, the Sopranos is pretty accurate in that regard really.

>>8785520
"This is", as in "this isn't really the right thread, pal" or "this is probably a shitpost, but just in case it isn't I'm gonna tell him to fuck off"

>>8785528
i think i didn't understand what he was asking, so i deleted

>>8785536
It's ok, this thread's been kinda slow anyway so it's not like he really derailed it.