Insecure Recap: Racist AF

Season 1/ Episode 3/ HBO **I love recaps, you don’t love spoilers? What’s wrong witchu?**   Talk about kickin’ this ep off with the awkwardness. We see Issa in bed wrapping her head, as most Black women are known for, before we go to sleep. Lawrence walks in and turns off the light and there’s this ridiculously uncomfortable exchange between the two. It feels like this is their first bed time routine, not their fifth year. Issa wants to read. Lawrence wants to sleep. They try to appease each other. Lawrence goes for the snuggle and Issa hits him with the “cold hands, who dis?” These cats toss and turn all night. Waking up from nothing. Bruh. Fast forward to the work day and Lawrence is working with a job coach/hunter trying to get his life. Shit is so real for this dude. It’s nice to see him out of sweatpants, but damn. He can’t seem to win for losing. Jump hunting for two weeks to come up with nothing only to be told to lower your standards. Lawrence ain’t the settling type. He’s broke but ambitious. Then we head over to Molly meeting the new Black woman in the firm and let’s talk about the realness that happens when you go from being the only to the other. That feeling is written all over her face. Excitement, hesitation, feeling the need to protect your shit and the need to help a sistah out all rolled into one. Real. Slide over to Issa at work and she overhears her non-Black co-workers tryna read her beach outing for the kids. They’re doubting her, questioning whethe…