When One Message Yields Two Very Different Reactions
Over the past year, I've become a big fan of the sketch-comedy show Key & Peele. The bits are fresh and often decidedly politically incorrect. (The Obama meet-and-greet is one of my all-time faves.) As a result, K&P often makes many people just a little uneasy. A few months back, I asked a Black friend of mine, "Should I be laughing at the slavery skit?" (He said yes.)
One of the best skits from the show's most recent season involves the dangers of communicating via text messages. It dovetails nicely into a major theme of Message Not Received. I write about how mediums such as e-mail and texts often give us the appearance that others really understand our messages. It turns out, though, that that understanding is often false.
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