be given a label or penalty
A speaker describes how black characters were routinely given racist names by white creators; the label lands like a slap.
was introduced, usually, by white artists and writers, they got slapped with racist names...Chasing Amy · 1997 — 第 2 / 20 章 · 2'59" · C1
Comic Panel Erupts Over Star Wars, Explained：chickens come home to roost
A comics panel turns into a fight about how black characters get named, who defends them, and whether Star Wars counts as progress. One voice answers with a quote: "They're tryin' to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!"
あらすじ
The scene is a convention panel on minority voices in comics. A speaker walks through the history of racist naming, then pitches a book whose hero is a black tribal descendant. Pushback comes fast: someone brings up Lando Calrissian, and the room splits over what Star Wars actually says.
注目の表現
slapped withsingled them outbullshitchickens come home to roost
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このシーンの表現
chickens come home to roost
bad actions eventually have consequences
After offering his hero as a role model, the speaker turns the line into a warning that old wrongs are due to return.
He ignored every warning, and now the chickens have come home to roost.
このシーンの他の表現
- slapped with
be given a label or penalty
- singled them out
picked out and labeled
- bullshit
nonsense; crap
- keepin' it real
stay authentic; don't fake it
- holy trilogy
the trilogy treated as sacred
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
picked out and labeled
The names pick the characters out from the group and label them as Negroes, turning a category into a target.
that singled them out as Negroes.no such thing; none of that
don't have none of that bullshit.Blend 'none of that' into one stream; 'of' almost disappears.
don't have none of that bullshit.bastards (very vulgar) — Extremely vulgar; avoid it in any formal or unknown company.
that established the flrst society on the planet, while you European motherfuckers were still hidin' in caves and shit, all terrifled of the sun.someone worth imitating
He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to, 'cause I'm here to tell ya: The chickens is comin' home to roost, y'all.admire and respect someone
He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to, 'cause I'm here to tell ya: The chickens is comin' home to roost, y'all.relative clause: The clause modifies 'role model'; 'to' stays at the end after 'look up'.
He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to, 'cause I'm here to tell ya: The chickens is comin' home to roost, y'all.perform a racist caricature for approval not a medieval singer, but a caricatured black role
The black man's no longer gonna play the minstrel in comics and sci-fl fantasy.by whatever means it takes
We keepin' it real, and we gonna get respect by any means necessary.Let 'gonna' blur and land the beat on 'respect'.
We keepin' it real, and we gonna get respect by any means necessary.a Black person seen as servile to white people — A charged racial insult; outsiders should not use it.
Fuck Lando Calrissian! Uncle Tom nigger!Link 'gotta' to 'invoke' and pause before 'holy'.
Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy.hold black people back brother man is a black male address term
Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down...embedded clause: The 'how' clause is the object of 'about' and states the film's argument, not a question.
Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down...the Star Wars universe a Star Wars tagline, not an astronomy claim
even in a galaxy far, far away.a derogatory term for a white person — A racial slur; not for casual or public use.
Check this shit. You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker...shut up (vulgar) — Aggressive and vulgar; not for strangers or work.
- What's a Nubian? - Shut the fuck up!obtain or get hold of
Then this cracker... Skywalker... gets his hands on a light saber, and the boy decides he's gonna run the fuckin' universe.In fast speech, 'hands on a' runs together; keep 'a' very light.
Then this cracker... Skywalker... gets his hands on a light saber, and the boy decides he's gonna run the fuckin' universe.smash or break up
And they gonna bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star.neighborhood or turf — Street talk for neighborhood; too casual for formal writing.
And they gonna bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star.force black people out black element means black people here, not a chemical element
They gonna drive out the black element...remove his mask
when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man.in one's innermost self
They're tryin'to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!that-clause: The that-clause spells out the message 'they' are pushing; 'wants' is nonstandard speech.
They're tryin'to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!「Comic Panel Erupts Over Star Wars」を読み解く
What's really going on
The argument isn't really about Lando. The panel's opening move is to establish that naming has always been done to black characters by white writers — they "got slapped with racist names" — so any defense of the industry sounds like a defense of that history. The counter-move is nostalgia: one guy is a black pilot, he flew the Falcon, so what's the problem? The reply reframes the trilogy as a story about replacement, ending with a mask pulled off to reveal an old white man. "They're tryin' to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!" The volume keeps rising, but nobody is arguing about the same thing: one side is talking about who gets named, the other about who gets to be a fan.
Theme
IdentityNaming decides who a character is; the panel argues over whether a black hero or a black villain actually counts as representation.
SatireThe Star Wars reading is deliberately over the top — gentrification, the Klan, a masked villain — and it lands because the room takes it seriously.
発音のポイント
- none of that — Blend 'none of that' into one stream; 'of' almost disappears.
- gonna get respect — Let 'gonna' blur and land the beat on 'respect'.
- gotta invoke — Link 'gotta' to 'invoke' and pause before 'holy'.
- hands on a — In fast speech, 'hands on a' runs together; keep 'a' very light.
He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to, 'cause I'm here to tell ya: The chickens is comin' home to roost, y'all.A black kid finally has someone to admire, and the payoff for years of being written off is arriving now — the old accounts are being settled.
We keepin' it real, and we gonna get respect by any means necessary.No more performing for white readers: tell the truth about black characters and demand respect however it has to be taken.
Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy.Every argument gets rerouted into Star Wars: the trilogy is treated as sacred evidence that can't be questioned.
They're tryin'to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!The claim is that the films' real message is assimilation — that even a black villain's story ends with whiteness as the ideal.
このシーンについての質問
Why does bringing up Lando Calrissian set people off?
It's offered as proof the genre was already inclusive — a black character who flies the Millennium Falcon — and the answer treats that as the same old defense of the same old naming.
What does "gentrification" mean in this argument?
It's used as a name for the trilogy's plot: white characters move in, drive out "the black element," and call the galaxy safe for white folks.
Why is Darth Vader's mask brought up?
Because the reveal is read as a letdown: "he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man," which the speaker takes as the film's real message.
Is the panel really about Star Wars?
Only after the history of racist naming lands. Star Wars comes in when someone offers Lando as a counterexample, and the argument shifts to what the trilogy says about race.
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