american blacks have enough pull and capital to fund, produce, and distribute movies like this. they would make their money back thrice over at least. oprah, tp, spike, cosby, etc (most of which i can't stand) could easily make a movie about the maroons, the real history of the slave trade, how it has impacted blacks, how our own apathy is destroying our culture/communities, how the music/media targeting blacks is more destructive than productive...and meant to "keep us in our place". promote ideas that we can act on in our own everyday lives to make a real impact. some tragic, but uplifting and motivational sh1t.
the problem is they're scared. notice how almost every movie that shows the tragedy black americans or american indians endured, what ends up happening? a white person always has to be the protagonist. that's the only way it makes it to the screen. the movie becomes about them and not about us. the blacks with the capital, connects and know-how to make this type of industry shift happen don't want to risk alienating their industry connects or infuriating the media henchmen that put them on...aka their handlers. they've sold their souls, more or less.
white hollywood and media won't promote black upliftment unless it benefits them, but even then they don't want to see that happen because then we're not under their spell anymore. our people at the top need to stop being b!tchmade and take risks. stop worrying about what white hollywood will think. stop promoting lame azz movies like the butler and all this bullsh1t tp keeps putting out. it annoys the sh1t out of me that some of these same industry people like oprah and cosby point the finger at blacks for not doing our part, which is also true, but they need to accept that they have leverage and resources to do more than they do. i'm about holding all of us including myself to a higher standard, but we have to put pressure on them as well. they really don't have a good excuse. we can do this without white hollywood.
at "they can't prove that they can make their money back and trying to predict how "minorities" will view it." That's what marketing folks are for. Why do you think they're falling over themselves to work with Tyler Perry now?
@ cacywood.
