Earn was in a tough situation on Atlanta last night. Instead of helping Van at a party hosted by her bougie friend, Monique, he broke out of character to say what he really thinks. “This is wack, this party is dumb, she is dumb, this is such a weird place,” he said as he left the mansion in hilarious (yet embarrassing) fashion, and possibly shattering any chance Van making professional connections with the people she met at the party. The latest episode of Atlanta began by exploring race identity, and then settled on the complicated relationship between Earn and Van, and how they understand each other.
Van asked Earn to pretend to be her husband at this party, even though he slept with another woman the night before. The incident has already created a layer of tension so thick you’d need an axe to cut it, but Van needed to go so she can network with the right people. The party is a Juneteenth affair hosted by Van’s fairly new friend Monique and her thinks-he’s-super-down white husband Craig. It’s not like it’s a bad thing for a white person to understand our history, but this dude does exactly what Earn later accused him of doing when he stormed out of the mansion: stunting on black culture. He tried to dap-up Earn, talk to him about visiting Africa, and explained the idea of cultural appropriation. But even with all of the black guests, black art, and even a black choir that sings Negro spirituals, Craig clearly doesn’t “understand” Monique. However, the house and stable income are more than enough reasons for her to marry him.
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