I honestly wanted to say mainstream but I was like nah... Slave movies get the mainstream push while you have stuff like Meet the Blacks barely getting $2 mil to produce.
Im Sorry But the LAST Thing the Black Community Needs Is Yet Another Slave Movie
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I honestly wanted to say mainstream but I was like nah... Slave movies get the mainstream push while you have stuff like Meet the Blacks barely getting $2 mil to produce.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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Ya'll really think the Coli is a macrocosm of the African American community. MOST people don't give a fukk about being self conscious or history, let alone black people. And hell at least Marie Antonette was in a fukking school book, and the oft quoted "let them eat cake" so I'm sure she's known more than you think. I don't have a low opinion of my people I'm being truthful. Just because a couple nikkas on an internet site is "illuminated" don't mean, the hood is getting become hotepd out and we should put an end to slave films
BelowTheMasonDixon
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Man 12 years a slave took YEARS before it got enough money to be produced. Ya'll acting like Hollywood producers are all like OOH Slave movie I smell 500 million in profit. They don't even wanna come up with the money to make them shyts.
Again it's not because they dont know the fukking historical character, its because there are people THAT LOOK LIKE THEM doing POSITIVE things and not like some spear-chuggers of yesteryear.
That would be the major draw REGARDLESS of if they actually knew the historical character or not because its POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT of their own people.
U think the average hillbilly or cac know or care about Richard the Lionheart or whoever Brad Pitt played in Troy? Nah, they dont they wanted to see a white man kick some sand-c00n/Turk ass on film, see how that empowers cacs??
BelowTheMasonDixon
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I get what your're saying.
i never watch any of these slave movies and never will.
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
They got Free State Of Jones.
Roots is coming back.
I think there is one called "Underground" our right now.
I ignore these shyts.
White people think they are slick. Black people complaining about diversity in film and television? Oh okay. We'll give them some roles. As slaves....
Roots is coming back.
I think there is one called "Underground" our right now.
I ignore these shyts.
White people think they are slick. Black people complaining about diversity in film and television? Oh okay. We'll give them some roles. As slaves....
Larry Lobster
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I agree but Underground is surprisingly a good show.
how'd you miss that hbo one? it JUST came out
Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha
Superstar
the problem isn't so much slavery tv shows/ films, its the lack of balance, if they have the same amount of slavery shows but then also had movies and tv shows about when we were kings/queens in africa, or how black people invented maths, and rules supreme in eygpt it would'nt be so bad, but all we get is whip whip whip slave slave, its nearly like subliminal messaging. and its way worse that its well known hollywood won't even cast black people in good african roles such as gods of eygpt.
That's not good on the psyche.people actually watches those type of movies
honestly when I stopped watching tv i started exercising more and my self esteem increased. @PhonZhi the media is designed to make black peopoe view themselves as inferior to whites. After not watching tv i realize genetically they are weak and insecure and use rhe media to think they are great collectively when individually they are not. white society likes to project through the media. when they see black excellence in real life they realize they everything they have been taught is a lie.
you want proof of this? one up a white person in anything they think they are good at and see that hurt...
black people really need to stop mindlessly consuming so much tv and movies and media...and actually look into why things are the way they are.
Just another way to make black folks look up to the "white knight"
Y'all ain't slick
Y'all ain't slick
BelowTheMasonDixon
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It's a great film. based off a true story.
Solomon Northup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
as an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. A farmer and professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Hebron, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region ofLouisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained in slavery until he met a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens kidnapped into slavery. Family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.[3]
Now if you just don't believe this man's story needed/deserved to be told then...
the lack of balance/diversity in black film is the real problem.
