Piff Perkins
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Haven't seen the show but I remember shytting on people in that thread lol. The black experience is vast, dynamic, and versatile. There is room for any and every story to be told.
We live in a society that declares a movie with too many black characters "a black movie" but would never say the same about movies with majority white casts. I was watching A Place Between The Pines recently, which is a good movie so far (didn't have time to finish it). Two main characters are white men. Is it a film about white people? No one would label it as such. But this drives home the point that films like A Place Between the Pines aren't made with black people. I want to get to a point where they are made, and no one bats an eye.
Stories about black men struggling aren't a part of an agenda. Stories about black men fukking up aren't part of an agenda. And no, stories about black men being gay aren't part of an agenda either. They all fit in the black experience. And as long as I have no logical reason to doubt the intention of the writer, I'm going to view it for what it is: art. A movie or show I can think about, and hopefully something that challenges me.
We live in a society that declares a movie with too many black characters "a black movie" but would never say the same about movies with majority white casts. I was watching A Place Between The Pines recently, which is a good movie so far (didn't have time to finish it). Two main characters are white men. Is it a film about white people? No one would label it as such. But this drives home the point that films like A Place Between the Pines aren't made with black people. I want to get to a point where they are made, and no one bats an eye.
Stories about black men struggling aren't a part of an agenda. Stories about black men fukking up aren't part of an agenda. And no, stories about black men being gay aren't part of an agenda either. They all fit in the black experience. And as long as I have no logical reason to doubt the intention of the writer, I'm going to view it for what it is: art. A movie or show I can think about, and hopefully something that challenges me.
ashy can't you just appreciate the show for what it is? Cats aren't wrong for their criticisms of the first couple of episodes the same way that you aren't wrong for acknowledging that the show has picked up from the first two episodes. There's no denying that the first couple of episodes pushed narratives that are commonly used to negatively generalize black men. Now the show has picked up and become much less predictable since those first couple episodes. Nobody owes an apology for commenting on what they saw tho. Now if cats were refusing to acknowledge that the show has approved then you'd be justified in your sassy bytching.
