Yes, we’re late. Sorry. Nobody could be bothered last week so we’ve blundered into February without a January episode. Even though this was recorded in January (just about). We’re here now and that’s all that matters, yes yes? Apart from the content of course, and oh boy, what content.
This episode, deKay, Kendrick, Orrah and Toby provide mouth trumpeting disguised as bafflement at the large sums of money both Microsoft and Sony have been throwing around, Six Days in Fallujah being delayed yet again, Chinese opera, and despite it not being Black History Month, it seems it actually is Black History Month for us as Kendrick explains. Look, it’s what you get with this podcast you know what you signed up for you can’t complain now, Karen.
Oh yeah, and games:
- Animal Crossing
- Spider-Man
- Summer in Mara
- All Of The Pokémons But Specifically Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Sea of Thieves
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Every Single BC Game On The Xbox Series X
- Shin Megami Tensei V
- Serious Sam 4
And your questions answered by our crack team of podcasters. No, I said “crack”.
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First!
In this month’s podcast we discuss the Black College Football Xperience for the Xbox 360, a game that depicts American football as played by Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. If you are interested in more information on this topic, the United States Government Education website has a brief primer and a list of associated institutions:
https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/one-hundred-and-five-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/
One thing that I did not get a chance to discuss during the recording was the notion of nominally fraudulent HBCU institutions. During the 1950s, when the United States was debating the finer points of the laws that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the very notion of “Separate But Equal” was being challenged because in most cases segregated services were either unequal, or completely nonexistent. In an attempt to prevent its schools from being racially integrated, the state of Florida established (at great expense) eleven colleges intended only for Black people which were not fully accredited and provided only questionable educational services. Florida spent a vast amount of money to demonstrate that separate-but-equal was an acceptable status quo, and the way that you know they didn’t believe in their own argument is that all eleven institutions were immediately shuttered as soon as the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Junior_College
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