The Fits

For Colored Nerds

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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B & E take a look back at the 2015 movie, The Fits. Along the way, they talk about the interior lives of Black children, the spookiness of discovering your body, and who should be able to tell Black stories. Required reading: http://theundefeated.com/features/out-of-the-fits-and-into-formation/ http://www.vogue.com/13442440/the-fits-anna-rose-holmer-interview/ http://themuse.jezebel.com/black-movie-white-director-richard-tanne-on-the-obama-1785755757 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Eric.
0:09.4	And I'm Brittany.
0:10.9	And we are.
0:11.8	We're colored nerds.
0:12.8	The conversations that black people have.
0:14.5	White people are not in the room.
0:16.4	But we record them.
0:18.0	And we put them on the internet.
0:19.9	Yeah.
0:20.6	How's it going?
0:21.5	You know me, tired as usual.
0:22.7	Yeah.
0:25.0	I mean, usually, so, okay, so usually you seem like you've had about like six cups of coffee.
0:30.3	I know, and I've had none.
0:31.4	Yeah, but like, yeah, man, this, like, you know, I want some, I want to give you some of my energy.
0:42.1	Like, damn. this like you know I want some I want to give you some of my energy like damn I don't actually it's weird because it's true on Saturdays normally I come in there I'm like hey you're like ah what's going on what's happening you know and you're
0:45.7	like oh not to me but this morning you were so chatty and I was really like I told you
0:50.1	know what the first movie that I ever saw that had the F word in it I think it had I think it might have been Michael Douglas or you know some white guy
0:57.5	And it was like he was called falling down and I remember I couldn't sleep when I
1:01.9	My parents like okay well you can sit and watch this movie and I was just like this dude kept
1:04.6	Be like fuck this fuck you blah blah blah this dude lost his fucking mind he was walking around
1:08.9	Like his town with like like, a baseball bat,
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