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HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ Star Jurnee Smollett Says the Show Reflects America’s Current ‘Quest to Bring Down White Supremacy’
breitbart.com ^ | 8/15/2020 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 08/16/2020 1:45:34 PM PDT by rktman

Actress Jurnee Smollett, brother of hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett, says HBO’s latest racially charged drama, Lovecraft Country, is a fictional reflection of a segregation and Jim Crow-era America that black people “are still on that quest today in 2020” to overcome.

“[Racism] is sometimes even more of a threat because it’s unexpected,” Jurnee Smollett said on a Television Critics Association panel discussing the HBO series, which is set in 1950s. The J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele-produced drama sees black characters face racism while battling the fictional creatures and monsters of Marc Ruff’s famous fiction novel. “It affects your livelihood and it affects you on every single level.”

“Our heroes essentially are going on a quest to bring down White supremacy,” Smollett said. “We are still on that quest today in 2020 as Black Americans. Racism is such a demonic spirit — it’s something that we are still fighting off.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackracist; hbo; jjabrams; jordanpeele; juiceessis; jurneesmollett; jussiesmollett; marcruff; racistgarbage
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Ummm, okay. Riddle me this assclown. If you're so oppressed, how is it your makin' beacoup bucks in an hbo series? Guess we'll be cancelling our hbo subsciptio...... Oh, we don't have one. Time to sit down and STFU ungrateful snot.
1 posted on 08/16/2020 1:45:35 PM PDT by rktman
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And, apparently the author knows something about jurnee we don’t or can’t tell them apart. Sister(?) not brother(?).


2 posted on 08/16/2020 1:47:28 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...a fictional reflection of a segregation and Jim Crow-era America that reflects unwelcome bright lights in the eyes of the remaining members of the Demagogic Party.

3 posted on 08/16/2020 1:49:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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So Jurnee Smollett is going to hire Black actors to don Whiteface and beat her up on stage?


4 posted on 08/16/2020 1:49:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: rktman

Democrat-Media Axis.

Smollets are operatives for Obama/Harris wing.

It’s coordinated propaganda.

Just like the fake lynching in Chicago.


5 posted on 08/16/2020 1:51:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: rktman

Gender fluidity.


6 posted on 08/16/2020 1:51:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: rktman

no one hands white people houses

paid a lot of money to live where i am

and i sure as hell cant live anywhere i want because of my skin color


7 posted on 08/16/2020 1:52:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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I look at that photo of Jurneeeee and I have one thought, I wish cows could fly.


8 posted on 08/16/2020 1:52:46 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: rktman

America is GREAT! What other country allows its “Slaves” to become millionaires, billionaires and President of the United States?


9 posted on 08/16/2020 1:53:26 PM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: ifinnegan

Isn’t it amazing how ordinary Americans had never heard of a “Smollett” until the race hoax, but 2 of the family have managed to get on big TV shows?
I’ve never had privilege like that!


10 posted on 08/16/2020 1:57:47 PM PDT by GnuThere
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She can only be black by the Jim Crow “One Drop” rule.


11 posted on 08/16/2020 2:01:43 PM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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I remember reading Lovecraft in Jr High and thought he was quite imaginative. But this is a total waste of time. The second sentence in the Premise section tells you all you need to know. Unwatchable !
12 posted on 08/16/2020 2:01:51 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Secret Agent Man

But they have sure destroyed a lot of them

formerly nice even great neighborhoods now sit graffitied unkept, vacant lotted

Trillions of dollars in property values that have been lost by dishonest, lazy people


13 posted on 08/16/2020 2:04:10 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See St George's Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: Secret Agent Man

A few years ago my son bought a house from a black family. Does he need to give it back?


14 posted on 08/16/2020 2:04:56 PM PDT by shelterguy
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[[[Lovecraft Country, is a fictional reflection of a segregation and Jim Crow-era America that black people “are still on that quest today in 2020” to overcome.]]]

What an absolute sick joke. These snowflakes have no idea what blacks went through in that era to act like it still exists today.

Fools.


15 posted on 08/16/2020 2:05:22 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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Is the opposite of white supremacy black inferiority?


16 posted on 08/16/2020 2:09:13 PM PDT by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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I find it fascinating how the left constantly tells us conservatives how we can’t live in the 50’s anymore and that is exactly what they are doing as far as race relations and the attempt to keep blacks on the Democrat plantation.


17 posted on 08/16/2020 2:10:20 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Reily
says HBO’s latest racially charged drama, Lovecraft Country, is a fictional reflection of a segregation and Jim Crow-era America

If I had just seen the title I might have watched, waiting for Cthulhu to rise.

18 posted on 08/16/2020 2:11:07 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: rktman

Just like her creep of a brother, she’s so desperate to find “racism,” she’s got to create it.


19 posted on 08/16/2020 2:15:19 PM PDT by libstripper
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I can’t understand how we’re letting 13% of the population lead us around by the nose. We have lost our spines.


20 posted on 08/16/2020 2:15:36 PM PDT by dljordan
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