Insecure Recap: Familiar-Like

Insecure / Season 3, Episode 2 / HBO Wowee! We kick off our second episode of this season with Issa at work. Seems Daniel’s been ghost since their last exchange, so she shoots him a text to make sure he’s alive and shit. In the meantime, she gets an email rejecting her for an apartment she’s applied to. Daniel hits her back that he’s fine, and she’s gotta decide how she feels about that. But since she doesn’t have anywhere else to live, she should definitely be nice. A hand out. Even though Issa’s boss Joanne shut her down with the quickness when she surfaced some of the reasons schools don’t want to fuck with We Got Y’all, Joanne is now willing to entertain’ redesigning their racist-ass logo. The rest of the staff points out that a white hand holding some Black kids isn’t a good look, and Sarah even calls out the organization’s name–“We Got Y’All” as a problem. (It is grammatically incorrect, after all.) Joanne’s still defensive af, though, talking about how it couldn’t be racist because it’s her hand–and it’s “not a handout, a hand out.” Whatever, girl. Finally, Patricia pitches Issa as The Black Voice of Record, saying they should probably just do whatever she suggests. But things with Joanne are already tense, and Issa’s bitter about the newly woke staff thinking they can rely on the sole Black employee to clean up their mess. She tells them they’ve all made good points and doesn’t offer her own opinion. In the meantime, she gets another rejection for an apartment. Dani…