We Lost Another One: Anthony Mackie Talking About Respectability Politics

[afterlife2009]

On his nephew growing dreadlocks:

Turning to the topic of recent nationwide protests against racial profiling, Mackie offered a unique perspective.

“Like my nephew wanted to grow dreadlocks. I’m like fine, I’ll sit you down and I’ll watch The First 48 with you and everybody you see on that show, that’s doing something wrong, they’re black dudes with dreadlocks. So, do you want to be seen as part of the problem or do you want to be an individual?”

“Let’s just say you have locks and you walking down the street. The police pull you over and say you fit the description of somebody. You start yelling and arguing with the cops. Next thing you know you pressed up against the wall going to jail for something you’re not even involved in just because you look like somebody and you don’t know how to handle yourself,” Mackie said.

On Selma:

Mackie said that Selma is having trouble at the box-office and didn’t fare well with Oscar voters because people are turned off by the film’s subject matter.

“People are just tired of being bombarded with race right now,” Mackie said. “So everybody is shying away from certain topics and certain movies.”

http://thegrio.com/2015/01/20/anthony-mackie-selma-oscar-snub-black-white/

 

[iBrowse]

Dreadlocks?

This nikka just correlated having dreads with being a wild black thug.

If his name wasn't in the title or quote I would've thought it was Charles Barkley or Don Lemon.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Who's Anthony Mackie

EDIT: This guy

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I'm guessing the new scapegoat will be "Well, if he didn't have locks the police wouldn't have shot him "

 

[Premeditated]

The dreadlock part is one of the worst logic I've ever heard.
He does have a point on these black race theme biopic movies though.

 

[iBrowse]

I'm guessing the new scapegoat will be "Well, if he didn't have locks the police wouldn't have shot him "

This is the same nikka that played as the hyper-sexual black man impregnating half of New York in She Hate Me. To see him shunning Selma when his early roles that garnered attention for him revolved around race is the pot calling the kettle black to say the least.

 

[afterlife2009]

Stacey Dash huh

 

[↓R↑LYB]

This is the same nikka that played as the hyper-sexual black man impregnating half of New York in She Hate Me. To see him shunning Selma when his early roles that garnered attention for him revolved around race is the pot calling the kettle black to say the least.

Never seen that movie and what'd he say about Selma

 

[afterlife2009]

Never seen that movie and what'd he say about Selma

i just edited the OP. it's in there.

 

[NSSVO]

c00n him up breh

 

[↓R↑LYB]

i just edited the OP. it's in there.

Is he officially a #NewBlack ?

 

[Handsback]

I'm guessing the new scapegoat will be "Well, if he didn't have locks the police wouldn't have shot him "

Oh they've gotten pretty good about talking around it.

Bill O, Geraldo, Alan West, some racist-but-not-racist a$$hole on facebook: "If he hadn't sagged his pants/wasn't a wannabee gangsta(I hate how they pronounce this)/wore a hoodie/listened to that white hating hip-hop/had thug-locks/had an abundance of melanin/had a lineage from a certain continent right below Europe/listened to the police, he'd be alive today. The one time I was pulled over the officer gave me a high five and a lollipop! Blue Lives Matter! It's not about race. Al Sharpton. Jesse Jackson. Eric Holder."

 

[ReadOneBookAWeek]

another sellout happy to lick up cac scraps

 

[Sk3ptical]

Stacey Dash huh

c00n and the wench

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

He's right about Selma, but that doesn't mean that's acceptable. How many war movies they gon' do? Yet American Sniper just did $90M...how about calling them on that instead of just throwing out the reason like that's OK?

His dreadlocks comment is stupid and pussified. Painting locks as the problem instead of the stereotyping is stupid. How about instead of teaching your nephew how to be a p*ssy who's constantly trying not to 'fit the description', you teach him how to handle himself himself in those situations?