Ha! The film 'Dear White People' is a farce. A big spoiler from someone who saw the movie. Knew it.

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The cartoon didn't do sh!t. All the magic was in the comic strips.
The cartoon was still building up before Aaron jumped ship

After season 2s non serious tone season 3 came in and linked itself to real life events

Season 4 could of been an extention of that under Aarons guidance
 

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This movie is pretty much my school.
They had an "African Party" thrown that ended with property damage.
Black students are generally in one tight group, and stay close by in the dorms.
We actually have a Black girl that fakes her eye colour and hangs around white people most of the time.
I was disappointed, but it seemed realistic for the most part.
Identity issues are pretty commonplace, and the White people don't really care and go about their lives.
It wasn't going to be a completely militant movie, but it wasn't too bad.
"You're more Banksy than Barack..." That shyt killed me though :mjcry: Barack sure as hell isn't revolutionary :sadcam:
 

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So they can't be for empowering black people "themselves" because their spouse is white

Donald sterling fukks with nothing but "black girls" and he's racist jew

so what does that change

you can have a white spouse

but don't expect to be at the forefront of black issues because your wife is a benefactor of a system that has systematically decimated black people

a good example is Van Jones, incredible lawyer and activist, but he gets very little love from black circles
 

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Just saw this today. I enjoyed it.:yeshrug: I think it complicates blackness and raised some interesting questions. :ld: I do think that some issues were minimized and that it became a little busy in places. But from a first time writer/director, I think this was way above a lot of movies about black folks.
 
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Why is it black peoples' responsibility to "hold up a mirror" and show white people how racist they are? They aren't imbeciles or unaware (even though some pretend to be).

White people know how racist they can be; many just don't give a damn to do anything about it.
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Why is it black peoples' responsibility to "hold up a mirror" and show white people how racist they are? They aren't imbeciles or unaware (even though some pretend to be).

White people know how racist they can be; many just don't give a damn to do anything about it.

did you ever experience any 'cism at OU?

U were there round the same time i was, i think
 

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Just saw this today. I enjoyed it.:yeshrug: I think it complicates blackness and raised some interesting questions. :ld: I do think that some issues were minimized and that it became a little busy in places. But from a first time writer/director, I think this was way above a lot of movies about black folks.

I think many blacks like to think that theu are militant but many are not it takes a certain level of courage that many of us do not have. And not everyone among us hate white people.
 

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you can have a white spouse

but don't expect to be at the forefront of black issues because your wife is a benefactor of a system that has systematically decimated black people

a good example is Van Jones, incredible lawyer and activist, but he gets very little love from black circles
so it's wrong because of the image it presents? or is wrong on principle?
 

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On topic:
I was really disappointed that she's a fraud that spent the whole film playing up her blackness.
Wearing all black, doing the natural hair thing, making salient and powerful points on racism in modern
day America only to fukking back track and treat it like she was "Going through a phase" at the end.

It made the "Pro Black" angle out to be pointless bellyaching and it didn't help that her most of her ideas of "Racism"
were of the "We aren't represented on T.V. enough !" variety. She complained more about how (white) people looked at Black
people over the affects it could have on employment, education or even empathy when they're murdered for seemingly
no reason.

Lot's of talk about MTV, Lil Wayne and the "Token Black friend" but not a single mention of AA benefiting white women more than
minorities or the "Violent Negro" rearing it's head every time a black youth's murder becomes a national sensation.

She went from Malcolm X to a Hipster by the end of the film.

I couldn't applaud such a character.
The whole thing at the end about moving off campus and getting away from the "Black Dorm" was like the final straw :snoop:

I get it, maybe the director/writers were focusing on identity and what it means to be "Black" but I think they could've avoided the "You're a black racist if you care about Black issues" angle or at least make Sam's "Pro Blackness" somewhat reasonable instead of having her border
on caricature.
And I'm being generous when I say "Border" because she was damn near an SNL skit.

Another thing I didn't like was the whole "Biracial people can't possibly relate to the average Black American's experience :troll: " angle despite Sam's character going through the whole film being identified as and treated like a Black young woman, she even justifies her heel
turn because she feels that being identified as "Black" caused her daddy issues.

Oh and Sam launches into this little diatribe about "Racism" and how "Blacks can't be racist" that'd make a man facepalm his forehead into his
frontal lobe.
 
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