Official The Underground Railroad Thread

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Do tell black people how we are overreacting, from your Caucasian viewpoint? And what did you think about Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation or this version of Underground?:

I’ll wait right here

I see this poster’s take on Nate Parker’s movie and how he felt about Nat Turner. Called it.

No. Again, once a bunch of black men get spotted without chains or white escorts in 1860's Mississippi, they're getting arrested, simple and plain. Logic or reality, call it whatever you want. It wouldn't be compelling.

And nobody's gonna shelve out a budget for a Nat Turner killing white babies movie, so you can shut that shyt down right now.

Hiding in plain sight. No wonder he can’t answer the question.

and oh, there’s this

Beloved was a 80 million dollar drama that involved black people living in a post-Civil War America. Marvel's actually wrong that it didn't get critical acclaim; it has a 78% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's actually a pretty good movie from all accounts.

It made fukk-all at the box office. Why?

1. It's depressing as shyt.
2. It's nearly 3 hours long.
3. It took place nearly 150 years ago.
4. Oprah is the star, scaring away most men from seeing the movie.

You can't just throw up any random story about black people, say it's really important, and expect people to come in the thousands. You gotta give people good reason to spend their hard-earned 10 dollars. And you know what, Jamie Foxx killing white slaveowners for 3 hours is reason enough for a lot of black folk.

 

[phillycavsfan]

This dude is everything but “Black American”; 40 minutes in hes been every ethnicity except of the black race; i’ve proved my point.

You and I know answering yes or no is not going to end this. I already gave you evidence. Posting about the Ghana national team if I'm white for the last 8 years or so is a mad cover considering they haven't done anything of note for the last decade besides bomb out of 2 World Cups in excruciating fashion.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Yes or No would have ended the Convo right out the gate- the fact that you don’t, I mean- I can see why you wouldn’t straight up admit to being cac; supporter tag and all that.

So if a black director had slaveowners saying ****** 90+ times, it'd be okay?

It's set in the time of slavery. nikka or ****** got thrown around a lot.

1. I don't give a shyt about people saying the word ****** if its in the proper context. I hated it when they took the word ****** out of new editions of Tom Sawyer. That's whitewashing history.

It doesn't necessarily have to add to the story. Sometimes dialogue can tell you something about the motives or personality of a character. And some white folks use the word ******, whether you like it or not. I don't see why that should be censored, especially if we're not censoring words like wetback, fakkit, and gook. It's hypocritical.

Honestly, I'm far more offended by two-dimensional portrayals of racism like Crash or The Blind Side or whitewashed stories like The Help than a white character in a movie using the word ****** Or even the word ****** being wiped out of new editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Somethings can’t be “covered”- he loves him Tom Sawyer boi

 

[phillycavsfan]

This definitely ain’t meant to be binged

Revisiting this, I didn't understand why Ridgeway's backstory had to be the focus of episode 4. I'm not really interested in why the man is pure evil. But it makes sense why Barry told the story in episode 6; if this was a one episode per week thing I would've been bytching about episode 4 for 2 weeks.

 

[phillycavsfan]

@LaBellaNicole0416.NYC Everyone should read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn without the word nikka being censored. Deleting the use of nikka in that book whitewashes the racism that went down in the 19th century South. Twain put in there to satirize racist Mississippi whites and make them look foolish. It's no different than all of these red states trying to get rid of the 1619 Project in schools. The fact that you think that post exposes me actually makes me suspicious of you being a cac or stupid or both.

Don't bother replying, I've already put you on ignore because you're spamming this thread with your bullshyt.

 

[Lord_nikon]

visually, it looks amazing. im still hesitant to even get started because of all the weird intersectional black trauma fukkery that has been coming out.

agreed,

I was going to watch after viewing the trailer ,, i said hell naw lol

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

@LaBellaNicole0416.NYC Everyone should read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn without the word nikka being censored. Deleting the use of nikka in that book whitewashes the racism that went down in the 19th century South. Twain put in there to satirize racist Mississippi whites and make them look foolish. It's no different than all of these red states trying to get rid of the 1619 Project in schools. The fact that you think that post exposes me actually makes me suspicious of you being a cac or stupid or both.

Don't bother replying, I've already put you on ignore because you're spamming this thread with your bullshyt.

Bytch we all know that you ain’t black - typical reaction; I’d put myself on ignore too if I was getting my shyt aired out, dissed and left for dead or multiple lies being exposed on succession. Thanks for leaving!!! Now actual black people can comment in the thread sans interference from outsiders and digital blackface role players. My job is done.

But I swear to gawd I better not catch you cacking about black people or our opinions on film culture or the like. You can ignore all you want - I’m not going away.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I didn’t know he was a cac

I didn’t mean to snap on you if you took it like that , you know you’re my black film historian homie and you stay consistent

that made me mad with him trying to run the okey doke on you and other black posters.
I gotta tag you on the GOH thread every night-
“we look out for our own”- (Bumpy Johnson)

 

[KingofthePenguins]

Exactly why are you guys always jumping in Black Americans’ business when you are not Black American?

 

[KingofthePenguins]

The word trauma really needs to be banned outside of the medical use to be honest

That word has been ruined by the internet

 

[CW_1991]

Don't know about the rest of you but I'm getting tired of these networks rinse and repeating the whole black trauma imagery through the television screen every couple years.

Like how many have we gotten since say, 12 years A slave, till now?

We all know what the deal was. Comes off as a concerted effort to me. I feel like one of the things that it does is subconsciously program the black viewer to see themselves as less than.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Didn't even realize till the end of episode 6 that Mack was T-Dog from Walking Dead. He needs to get more good roles, he beasted in this.

 

[Shabazz]

Spoiler: Spoiler

she should have killed that little c00n and left the hunter to die. No way he would have gotten up anyway, they want another season though i suppose.

 

[KingofthePenguins]

Don't know about the rest of you but I'm getting tired of these networks rinse and repeating the whole black trauma imagery through the television screen every couple years.

Like how many have we gotten since say, 12 years A slave, till now?

We all know what the deal was. Comes off as a concerted effort to me. I feel like one of the things that it does is subconsciously program the black viewer to see themselves as less than.

Who is forcing you to watch it is the real question? If you do not want to see it, then you do not have to watch it. I am personally exhausted with grown ass adults behaving the same ass as petulant ass teenagers. Y’all are way too grown for the irrationality and temper tantrums

 

[CW_1991]

Who is forcing you to watch it is the real question? If you do not want to see it, then you do not have to watch it. I am personally exhausted with grown ass adults behaving the same ass as petulant ass teenagers. Y’all are way too grown for the irrationality and temper tantrums

Elementary attempt at condescension.