Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
I guess youtube/vimeo/any other online source is the only dependable outlet for original black stories and honest narratives about race that don't perpetuate played out stereotypes.
Ha! The film 'Dear White People' is a farce. A big spoiler from someone who saw the movie. Knew it.
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I guess youtube/vimeo/any other online source is the only dependable outlet for original black stories and honest narratives about race that don't perpetuate played out stereotypes.
The point is you can date a cac and still have a problem with white supremacyWhen I read the spoiler about her being biracial and also having a white boyfriend who she's hiding but also shyt talking about white folks. I wentbecause I don't understand what's the angle they're trying to pull. What exactly is the point of all that? You know what I mean?
I understand this about other black character's experiences but she's the lead here.
If this was some black man talking 'black' but sleeping 'white' I'd reservations cause to me it's overcompensation.
What, popcorn?just don't get worried if you feel something in the popcorn bucket
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Premeditated
MANDE KANG
I been peep game. This movie is the personification of New Black. Plus im willing to bet most of the cast in this movie has white spouses. How you gonna star in a movie called Dear White People and supposedly airing out the white bias and white privileged and y ets most of you have white s/o? Black Hollywood man.
CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
When I read the spoiler about her being biracial and also having a white boyfriend who she's hiding but also shyt talking about white folks. I went
I understand this about other black character's experiences but she's the lead here.
If this was some black man talking 'black' but sleeping 'white' I'd reservations cause to me it's overcompensation.
Its a satire about identity. The movie focuses on "blackness" and what that means to the individual.
I dont want to get into spoilers but I think all the black characters in the film worry that they are not black enough.
I don't think the movie is gonna end on some "colorblind" bs but more of a be yourself message.
The climax of the movie is when the white fraternity hosts a "black" party. So that touches on how whites identify blackness.
CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
LA Film Festival (2014) - Dear White People CLIP …:
This is pretty good concept of what the movie is about.
Are we supposed act as a representative of black people? Do we do what we feel is right even if it makes us look bad or if we get called a c00n? When do we keep it real? & when does keeping it real go wrong?
How do we balance between tap dancing for massa and perpetuating stereotypes?
White people don't have to deal with these issues but black people go through it
This is pretty good concept of what the movie is about.
Are we supposed act as a representative of black people? Do we do what we feel is right even if it makes us look bad or if we get called a c00n? When do we keep it real? & when does keeping it real go wrong?
How do we balance between tap dancing for massa and perpetuating stereotypes?
White people don't have to deal with these issues but black people go through it
I haven't seen the film of course. It's going to be interesting about that climax and towards the end of the film. I wonder how they're going to explain the white spouses. I'm sure the main character isn't the only dealing with that.
The white liberals love the film so that definitely means you have be careful when viewing this. They definitely don't get the same things we do when dealing with complex issues involving race no matter if a black man directed this.
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Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
There's a thread on Lipstickalley about the film and this is what was said spoilers as well. If you missed the trailer for the film here it is:
Some quotes:
It seems like the film is being marketed as a flick about the struggles black students go through at white universities, (just to get black people in the theaters to make $$$$) but apparently it's really about some tragic mulatto messthe star apparently is a biracial woman and it centers around her
After reading about how the movie is about the main characters plight being half white half black I'm not interested...isn't this the movie that makes reference to listening to taylor swift or some shyt because she is also half white?
How are black people - especially the younger generation - supposed to relate to this girl? It's funny because they present the film as very pro-black.
The irony of the lead girl being light skinned and biracial though. That trope never fails does it.
Yeah. I felt that way too... especially when I saw that b.s. about the one girl liking Taylor Swift's music and the white guy pointing out to her that because she was "mulatto", she felt like she had to choose sides. That clip was a major turning point in me wanting to see this movie. I wonder if the direction that the movie is going to go in is one in which it ends up where her whole character and any valid points that her character makes throughout the movie all get reduced to a tidy explanation that she is a biracial female who chooses to play the role of a race-baiting "angry black woman" but later realizes that "people are just people" and decides to "stop being so militant and angry" and to, instead, just "live life".
SPOILER AT THE BOTTOM:
Spoilers.
She a pro-black activist who has a secret white boyfriend and has (white)daddy issues. (the lead character is biracial).
Okay, that descriptions is a bit unfair, but that's the best way I can put it.
I knew there was a catch, her problackness has to be because of a mental issue, and not just because she loves who and whose she is. The white boyfriend just puts it over the top.
This was the only way this story was going to be told though, tbh. I have a fertile farm to sell you in the Sahara if you thought this movie would be made without putting whitey on a pedestal to ease the ofays.
Imma start working on my Nat Turner script ya'll. i know Hollywood won't touch it so itll be on YouTube. I'll tag all you guys when it comes out.
Knew it was some bullshyt. And they said this a an ode to Do The Right Thing. fukk outta here. Spike wouldn't put some bullshyt like that in there.
Thanks for the heads up.
I was only mildly interested in this before, definitely won't be seeing it now.
Shame that the focus is on the bedwench character. Maybe would have been an interesting side plot but to make the whole movie about it means that it was never for us in the first place.
What a fukking scam.
filial_piety
Banned
Who better to tell the story than those who sleep with them?
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
This is actually why I was never really all that interested.Can I just see a movie with black people in it thats not about race relations
We need a better balance in our film entertainment.
loyola llothta
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I been peep game. fuk that new black shyt
certain black women will cosign anything that have a black women in it, even if its a bad look
save my dollars. we have a black art/film independent thread check that out
@dcrutch15 let me get that LSA link
certain black women will cosign anything that have a black women in it, even if its a bad look
save my dollars. we have a black art/film independent thread check that out
@dcrutch15 let me get that LSA link
Right, cause you would know right?Who better to tell the story than those who sleep with them?