In 1992, The Movie “Boomerang” Exposed White People’s Racism.

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Orrr people find it easier to relate to characters that look and sound like them which is why Sex & The City/Friends/SNL are big for white people while Girlfriends/Living Single/In Living Color capture a blacker audience

I'm sorry breh, but respectfully, that's bullshyt.

There's no excuses to how some white folks can't relate to black cinema.

• Boomerang= A man that's a womanizer, only to get dogged out himself while getting caught up with another woman whom he's actually falling in love with (White people can have such feelings as emotions are universal)
• Living Single= A bunch of women in a complex going through relationship woes and career choices (white people endure such things as well)
• Dead Presidents= Numerous heists that happened and PTSD is essential among any person of color especially white folks

Hell, I can easily relate to Seinfield and that's the whitest fukking show to hit the airwaves, all due to the fact that George was always struggling with women (like ya marsupial) and go on tangents about shyt (like the marsupial).

I loathed this concept of "I can't relate" when that's the biggest crock of shyt period.

 

[The_Truth]

Orrr people find it easier to relate to characters that look and sound like them which is why Sex & The City/Friends/SNL are big for white people while Girlfriends/Living Single/In Living Color capture a blacker audience

.....that doesn't change what I said though. Black people will look at movies and shows with a majority white cast with little to no issue relating to the characters. But white people can't do the same.

 

[Macallik86]

I'm sorry breh, but respectfully, that's bullshyt.

There's no excuses to how some white folks can't relate to black cinema.

• Boomerang= A man that's a womanizer, only to get dogged out himself while getting caught up with another woman whom he's actually falling in love with (White people can have such feelings as emotions are universal)
• Living Single= A bunch of women in a complex going through relationship woes and career choices (white people endure such things as well)
• Dead Presidents= Numerous heists that happened and PTSD is essential among any person of color especially white folks

Hell, I can easily relate to Seinfield and that's the whitest fukking show to hit the airwaves, all due to the fact that George was always struggling with women (like ya marsupial) and go on tangents about shyt (like the marsupial).

I loathed this concept of "I can't relate" when that's the biggest crock of shyt period.

.....that doesn't change what I said though. Black people will look at movies and shows with a majority white cast with little to no issue relating to the characters. But white people can't do the same.
Respectfully, there are levels to it all.

I like all the shows I listed on both sides, but I can find various posts on this forum about how people don't like the white shows. Just because you are cultured enough to play both sides, doesn't mean that the average black/white person is doing the same thing.

Here's some quotes from the Frasier thread:

no. that show was too white for my white ass

no. most people here are black or pretend to be black so the likelihood anyone watches it is minimal.

keep cac shyt to yaself breh.

There's also a thread where Sex And The City is not relatable if you're not a raging homosexual

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/is-it-fair-to-assume-that-if-you-are-a-man-and-watch-sex-and-the-city.72711/

I can find more but you get the idea. This idea that the average black person is watching Gilmore Girls or a Lena Durham's show is not likely, just like white people watching Boondocks or a Katt Williams special

 

[Why-Fi]

That's why folks who only look at sales , don't truly understand what was popping back in the day

thats true af. I read somewhere that even scarface flopped when it was released

 

[ThrobbingHood]

You must’ve missed the 2019 “new-black” continuation of Boomerang. Made by Lena Waithe and Halle Berry lol. Where Marcus gotten metoo lol.

I am not sure such films would be made today. Boomerang if re-made probably would have made David Allen Grier's character gay (even though Nelson (Geoffrey Holder) probably was gay in the movie).

lol. To be fair, so much that happened in that movie would be a sexual lawsuit minefield today.

Gerrard was actually progressive back then:
“Yo man, she’s a lesbo!”
“The term is gay, alright Tyler! Just because a woman doesn’t sleep with you, doesn’t mean she’s homosexual”

David Allen Grier and Martin killed their roles.

 

[The_Truth]

I like all the shows I listed on both sides, but I can find various posts on this forum about how people don't like the white shows. Just because you are cultured enough to play both sides, doesn't mean that the average black/white person is doing the same thing.

Here's some quotes from the Frasier thread:





There's also a thread where Sex And The City is not relatable if you're not a raging homosexual

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/is-it-fair-to-assume-that-if-you-are-a-man-and-watch-sex-and-the-city.72711/

I can find more but you get the idea. This idea that the average black person is watching Gilmore Girls or a Lena Durham's show is not likely, just like white people watching Boondocks or a Katt Williams special

Man, don't tell me what you read on the coli. Tell me what you see in real life. If you associate with black people on a regular basis then you know we watch a lot of stuff that doesn't actually star black people.

 

[Jaguar93]

I always liked how a lot of Eddie’s old movies. Had an all star cast of black talent. Just look at the lineup for this movie.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I always liked how a lot of Eddie’s old movies. Had an all star cast of black talent. Just look at the lineup for this movie.

Had my man's Melvin Van Peebles in the piece just legit chilling in the cut like a true Chad ass Coli breh

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Had my man's Melvin Van Peebles in the piece just legit chilling in the cut like a true Chad ass Coli breh

“That’s a nipple, cause I’m drooling. ”

The obsession I had with this movie as a kid.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I always liked how a lot of Eddie’s old movies. Had an all star cast of black talent. Just look at the lineup for this movie.

Coming To America, Harlem Nights… and Spike Lee had the audacity to get at him claiming he wasn’t putting black folk on. Typical hating ass Brooklyn nikka.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

They hate black excellence

Obama becoming president sent cacs over the edge

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

A black man being portrayed as upper class (thru his own work, not nepotism), with ALL BLACK MASCULINE MALE FRIENDS BEING CONSTRUCTIVE?! NOT PAWGIN?!

You KNOW they wasn't gonna let that become a thing for long.

They only like to portray the few upper class black men in media as putting white women on a pedestal.

Remember with a different world was hitting? Had young brotha and sista wanting to go to college and attend a HBCU…

 

[Big Boss]

Classic movie

 

[JQ Legend]

You must’ve missed the 2019 “new-black” continuation of Boomerang. Made by Lena Waithe and Halle Berry lol. Where Marcus gotten metoo lol.

Damn I was gone check this out too

I’m cool on this stupid shyt

 

[Wild self]

Absolute classic and I will show my kids when they are old enough. Comedy on corporate Black America without buffonery etc. It's crazy and sad how the 90s had so much unapologetically Black entertainment that was neither buffoonery, c00ning, nor dropping agendas. Even the Black lady films like Waiting to Exhale revolved around Black people with Black love interests (except Angela Basset's husband who bucked out).

I am not sure such films would be made today. Boomerang if re-made probably would have made David Allen Grier's character gay (even though Nelson (Geoffrey Holder) probably was gay in the movie). Waiting to Exhale would probably be more on a Joy Luck Club "happiness through swirling" tip. Oh well.

On top of films like "Malcolm X", the 90s was pushing and crippling the offensive status quo. Black Entertainment surely peaked, and no real black film era popped off post 2004, for a reason.