Blerd Senpai

Speaking of the double standards and racial discrimination in the Cosplay community, examples of Cosplayers effect by the overall issues. The issues surround Ken St. Andre Utah based game designers and fantasy author is in hot water for off added Twitter comments. 

Through a series of interviews, with a variety of people in all walks of life. We try to figure the question "What is a Blerd", beyond the heterogenous combination of the words Black and Nerd. Coming to terms with a deeper understanding of the turn of phrase and its place in American vernacular. The term owes it notoriety to main seem popularity to it being coined on the NBC series Scrubs in 2006, Season 6, Episode 2 the episode “My Best Friend’s Baby’s Baby and My Baby’s Baby,” in it Dr. Christoper Turk (Donald Faison) describes his cousin as "the worlds biggest Blerd".

On this episode we interview Writer, Director, Social activist, Artist, and all around Blerd Raafi Rivero. 

In 1967 in a secluded house near a cemetery in a small unassuming Pennsylvania town just north of Pittsburgh dark magic, of a sort, was taking place, a ritual where chocolate syrup turned to blood, roasted ham to human flesh, and a little makeup and mortician’s wax was all it took to make the dead walk the earth, and George Romero – a segment director for a little local production called Mister Roger’s Neighborhood turned cinematic necromancer – and Duane Jones – a 31 year old black teacher and to that point largely unknown actor from New York – became horror legends who changed the face of the genre and of pop culture forever.