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Clipped Recap: Get Out
Doc’s first stint with the Clippers was also impossibly fraught.
Starting with Doc on the plane ride back to Los Angeles after the Clippers’ game four loss to the Golden State Warriors — too short a flight for sleep-induced flashbacks, really — Clipped unfolds in the brief dream space before he wakes up and reality asserts itself again. The video-rewind for Doc zips back through Barack Obama’s inauguration, Will Smith’s interview with Barbara Walters(who at one point asked him, “Do you think I’m ‘getting jiggy wit it’?”), Tiger Woods winning his first Masters (and fellow tour pro Fuzzy Zoeller making a racist quip about it), Michael Jordan refusing to endorse a Black challenger to Jesse Helms’ senate seat in North Carolina (“Republicans buy sneakers, too”), and the riots that broke out in the wake of the Rodney King verdict. Her friend Justine, newly divorced from her own cheating husband, encourages Shelly to drop her terrible man, too, but she can’t bring herself to do it, despite plays on her conscience, like testimony from the daughter of an elderly Black tenant whose death allegedly relates to the inhumane conditions of a Sterling-managed apartment.
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