JAMES CAMERON DOSN'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE

So I got the 3D-Imax tickets (not cheap).
Got a date.
I settled into my seat and prepared myself for what had been hailed as the latest triumph in movie history. I was very pleased. The premise was unoriginal but, with a production price tag like that I wouldn't be taking any chances either. Halfway into the movie though........the little voice in my head whispered "there's no black people in this movie". I stuffed it down and tried to ignore it but the torrent of thoughts started swirling. "Can we get a Samuel Jackson in this mutha!?!?" "Anthropomorphic blue native americans ain't minorities goddamnit!" "That's right, it WOULD take a white man to save the day.....wouldn't it?"
After a while I even wondered if the movie was still in 3D toward the end. WTF. Did I ruin the movie or did JamesCameron? I really tried to like it. I even tried picturing black actors in the movie and placed Chris Rock in the starring role just so I could tell myself "It's cool, A black actor just wouldn't 'fit' in a picture like this"
......and yes my date was white.

I hate myself

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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on March 16, 2010 at 11:44pm

^^Good point. All they want to do is tear him down instead of coming half way and maybe sharing some of what they know. This back-biting, infighting is why we never get anywhere. Always ready to hate on the other because their way of going about things isn't "good enough". "Enlightened" negroes and upper "class" blacks have a lot of snobbery to work through.

Yes, snobbery.

"The whole, "it humiliates black men" bullshit is ridiculous. Men dresses up as women has been a long-standing staple of comedy and there are examples of it in several racial/ethnic groups."

Milton Berle, for one. What bothers me most about the black men who get bent out of shape over it is that they don't realize that it's 1) a tradition, 2)obviously inspired by some of those ballsy women we all have in our families and therefore a tribute to black woman hood (god forbid a black male do that.) and 3) it's really kinda a hallmark of how gender hooked black people are. Anything a male does that could be related as feminine is all of a sudden an assault on black manhood.

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Permalink Reply by Q.A.Bradford on March 18, 2010 at 12:50pm

A agree theatrical cross-dressing goes back to greece, rome, england and even modern day japan.

Actually, think they aren't snobs enough, they're fucktards. So stuck in NOI 1960s mock-white conservative rhetoric, they overlook the alpha black female cultural roots that Tyleer's stories come from in pre-colonial african societies. Matriarchal families are quite normal in various traditional cultures, but the hyper-paternalized black culture of the US tries to downplay that in order to give us politically low black men a self-esteem boost.

Madea is good for highlighting the cultural diversity of the black family. The problem inst snobbery per se, its African cultural denialism. It was strong black women, especially, who sustained our survival after slavery since a woman didn't "seem" as threatening as a man. (ie, Harriet Tubman)

Mlle d. Sade said:

^^Good point. All they want to do is tear him down instead of coming half way and maybe sharing some of what they know. This back-biting, infighting is why we never get anywhere. Always ready to hate on the other because their way of going about things isn't "good enough". "Enlightened" negroes and upper "class" blacks have a lot of snobbery to work through.

Yes, snobbery.

"The whole, "it humiliates black men" bullshit is ridiculous. Men dresses up as women has been a long-standing staple of comedy and there are examples of it in several racial/ethnic groups."

Milton Berle, for one. What bothers me most about the black men who get bent out of shape over it is that they don't realize that it's 1) a tradition, 2)obviously inspired by some of those ballsy women we all have in our families and therefore a tribute to black woman hood (god forbid a black male do that.) and 3) it's really kinda a hallmark of how gender hooked black people are. Anything a male does that could be related as feminine is all of a sudden an assault on black manhood.