Johann responds to this insanity by reasonably pointing out there are plenty of black atheists ( Ta-Nehisi Coates, for one, recently won the National Book Award for Between the World and Me, which offers a completely godless perspective on racism and black life, among other things). He concludes this whole atheism thing must be some white bullsh-t and rushes home to purify his house of the contaminating influence of stuff white people like.īow and Johan subsequently find Dre in the kitchen, desperately trying to flush the family’s entire supply of almond milk and hummus down the sink, preparing to issue a “no more Whole Foods” edict. In other words, the black workers believe in God, and the white bosses don’t. He’s realized the other “God-ies” (Leslie’s term) in the office are Charlie and Curtis (the latter of whom even takes off his shirt to show off his religious tattoos, ranging from a fish symbol on his chest to a full-back portrait of Jesus). Charlie helpfully points out that “there are no brown Skittles” to help his friend draw the slavery connection, but Dre’s already moved beyond this silly game. recently created a lot of controversy for retweeting a racist meme comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles (which might, in fact, originate with Trayvon Martin famously buying Skittles just before being killed by George Zimmerman), but no, it just happens to be an eerie coincidence. He chooses “Skittles,” and here again I thought the show might get into the weeds of current national dialogue, since Donald Trump, Jr.

In the world’s most awkward, racially charged version of the Wikipedia game, Leslie throws out a word to see if Dre can associate it with slavery.

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