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The Angry Black Person's Guide to Protesting Like Good White People
So you’ve experienced injustice and you want to change the system, bring awareness or just express your frustration about an unfair system you’re black and it’s Friday. As someone once said: “To be black in America is to exist in a constant state of…Oh shit! This motherfucker shot a dude right in front of me!”…
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How to Play Black Spades, Part 3: We Finna Play
Now that you have read parts one and two of our tutorials on how to play black America’s favorite pastime, it is time to learn the official way to play Black Spades. These rules have been adapted from Bicycle Playing Card’s version of white Spades. There are three objects of every game of Black Spades:…
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How to Play Black Spades, Part 2: The Glossary
Welcome back to The Root University’s tutorial on how to play spades. As we discussed earlier, this guide will not make you a great spades player. Its intended purpose is to introduce you to the basic structure of the game and prevent your relatives at the next family reunion from looking at you like you…
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How to Play Black Spades, Part 1
Wikipedia calls spades a “trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s” but that’s definitely wrong.