Moonlight reviews – "devastating drama is vital portrait of black gay masculinity"

[Busted_Toes]

Yes.

Barry Jenkins:

Only Black man CACS would let around their kids are Gay ones

 

[Supreme HD]

Not normally into these kinda films but it looks decent

I can see where Coates is coming from in his comments, albeit I feel they were hamfisted words . Majority of us are invested in one image/type of masculinity - being the beacon of physical strength, and almost calculating rationale among other things. Virtually no feminine traits. Which is fine if you fit that mold, but if you don't, then there is no representative for you and you're demonized and seen as either weak or gay. Which is also part of the problem IMO - our framing of homosexuality as inherently a negative is what demonizes and subsequently ostracizes those people from our community, and they cannot exactly seek solace in an LGBT community that is just as racist as everywhere else (see most black LGBT figures' comments about "white gays" and you'll see that they are heavily critical of an LGBT movement that silence black voices similarly). So where do they go?

So I can see why this film would be framed as important. I don't know about the "best take on black male masculinity" but it is hopefully a nuanced one that is free of any kind of agenda, gay or otherwise. In any event, I don't believe in a gay agenda anyway, simply because you can't make somebody gay and the fact that gay people (and indeed trans people) exist in our communities is something that one must accept sooner or later, lest we remain eternally divided.

Nope. fukk gays

 

[Supreme HD]

Indeed, it's the same here in UK, albeit on a micro level considering our population here is small.

Explain the uk situation cause i from there.

 

[Supreme HD]

Also, Black men cope over there by assimilation. Hence your huge rates of interracial marriage.

Its Caribbean men that do that interracial filth. African men here marry other african queens.

 

[Supreme HD]

CACs somewhere laughing after last years Oscars so white, the Black movie that will win is about homosexuals. Black feminists going to push this movie hard.

U can bet that its going to win best film and best director. A gay black film. Im disgusted. fukk the oscars anyways

 

[Busted_Toes]

Its Caribbean men that do that interracial filth. African men here marry other african queens.

Caribbeans came on ship to PAWG The Windrush

 

[Supreme HD]

It's just another word to attack the Black alpha male. Just like during slavery, they'd kill or rape the slave that was the most masculine, had pride etc. Black feminists want to promote bytch nikkas as the standard. In times of war these nikkas ain't going to do shyt but braid hair and sing kumbaya. Docile just like massa like them.

nicely put.

 

[Grano-Grano]

I suggest y'all leave america and move to africa. In Africa we don't tolerate fakkit or feminism nonsense.

We should them lead now. They tolerating things that won't build civilizations. Fakkitry continent wide is not accepted. Across ethnic lines, linguistic lines, tribal lines and faith lines. That should tell our cousins in the Americas something.

 

[Sir Jebbi]

I've seen the movie.

In the last scene, the two nikkas kiss on a park bench, as the sun sets with Jagged Edge - Walked outta heaven playing.

When i got up showing the apex of disgust, i looked around .. CACs and Black feminists were crying uncontrollable tears.

This movie going to win Oscars :beli Slave Movies, c00n Movies, Maid Movies, Gay Movies - Oscars so black.

 

[Lewis Black]

It's just another word to attack the Black alpha male. Just like during slavery, they'd kill or rape the slave that was the most masculine, had pride etc. Black feminists want to promote bytch nikkas as the standard. In times of war these nikkas ain't going to do shyt but braid hair and sing kumbaya. Docile just like massa like them.

But they don't hear u do

 

[Busted_Toes]

We should them lead now. They tolerating things that won't build civilizations. Fakkitry continent wide is not accepted. Across ethnic lines, linguistic lines, tribal lines and faith lines. That should tell our cousins in the Americas something.

They'll blame it on colonialism or they'll find a tribe of three men fukking and claim this was African life pre-colonialism.

Kingdoms of Africa, weren't built on butt play.

 

[WheatThins]

I can see where Coates is coming from in his comments, albeit I feel they were hamfisted words . Majority of us are invested in one image/type of masculinity - being the beacon of physical strength, and almost calculating rationale among other things. Virtually no feminine traits. Which is fine if you fit that mold, but if you don't, then there is no representative for you and you're demonized and seen as either weak or gay. Which is also part of the problem IMO - our framing of homosexuality as inherently a negative is what demonizes and subsequently ostracizes those people from our community, and they cannot exactly seek solace in an LGBT community that is just as racist as everywhere else (see most black LGBT figures' comments about "white gays" and you'll see that they are heavily critical of an LGBT movement that silence black voices similarly). So where do they go?

this is a big question that a lot of black people will have to deal with and in part why the black lives matter movement has been so successful despite not having much backing from the "old guard" of black activism/politics + lack of a plan

even though i dislike blm as a movement and have my suspiscions about it, as black and gay, i understand the groups popularity due to incorporating the socially disenfranchised even within an already disenfranchised community.

gay black people need places of solace too. its not going to be enough to yell "conspiracy" and to try and meme shame nikkas to straightness. these are people who actually exist as real humans, so niche movies like this will always have a place and perhaps even become less "niche".

 

[You Win Perfect]

Some of y'all are just really neurotic. So there is an agenda against Black masculinity when these types of movies get made about white gays far, far more? Come on. You all just need to accept that Blackness exists outside of Black heterosexual maleness. I mean there is even hate for Hidden Figures because it centers around Black womanhood. Its crazy.

 

[Adidacs]

the movie looks wonderfully shot, and i have to admit, emotionally striking

fakkitry doesn't pull on my heartstrings, but you don't have to agree with the subject matter to appreciate a work of art

 

[Grano-Grano]

They'll blame it on colonialism or they'll find a tribe of three men fukking and claim this was African life pre-colonialism.

Kingdoms of Africa, weren't built on butt play.

From Kemet, Axum, Benin, Mali, Punt, Carthage and Nubia. Built on black masculinity.