Posted on 10/25/2014 4:34:42 AM PDT by Loud Mime
"“Dear White People” is set at a fictional Ivy League school, Winchester University. The story centers on a group of mostly black students and their experiences.
But Simien is quick to point out that Winchester is not Chapman. Instead, he says, Winchester is a microcosm of the larger society.
Still, Simien’s first few drafts were based on what he terms a “thinly veiled” Chapman – “the black experience when you are in a non-black world.” He says it’s a subject rarely depicted in films.
“I just thought it was an interesting and nuanced experience, and I wanted to talk about it,” said Simien, 31."
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Did he plagerise “Black Like Me”
Full Article Title:Justin Simien’s ‘Dear White People’ is influenced by, but not based on, his years at Chapman University
Other quotes:
“I encountered people who had presumptions about me, about race,” Simien said. “It made me uncomfortable.”
He doubts that some of the movie’s more overtly egregious scenes, including party attendants wearing black face, would ever happen at Chapman.
I’m sure his audience will see it that way.
“He says it’s a subject rarely depicted in films.”
Who’s he kidding. This is ALL we talk about when we talk about race in America.
You’re right. He starts off with a blatant lie.
I guess he do like Obama said, speak softly and act white when around people. Be nonthreatening.
This could be an interesting and informative movie. I know black people often feel out of place.
I guess I should base a book on my first “black” experience I had in 1971 when I invited a black girl I worked with to a party I was having in PA. She looked me in the eyes and told me she hated white people. She had to work with us but surely wasn’t going to socialize with us outside of work. Yep—MY first experience with racism. They HATE us(if I were to infer that all blacks hate us using that first encounter)
“the black experience when you are in a non-black world.”
Is that a vote for segregation?
I have trouble with the black face thing. I read that part as a desire to incite emotions of some people.
Your former co-worker got her wish; I personally see segregation as much worse now than before (here in NJ). Her feelings are reciprocated by most non-blacks.
Yeah, it must be tough for a black man to fit into the white world, all that watching sports on TV, ogling good looking white women, chugging back brews, it must all seem so foreign and incomprehensible.
Eric Holder’s accusation that “America is a nation of cowards when it comes to issues of race” is true. But the suggestion that that cowardice is demonstrated by whites only is the big fiction.
Very few Blacks I’ve ever spoken to have ever been willing to address Black failure to thrive. Those issues must ALWAYS presuppose some failure on the part of Whites to place obstacles in the way. The conversation must ALWAYS begin first and foremost with, “...yeah, but you white people...” It never gets to the heart of the matter: What are YOU going to do?
I’ve shared this before: My wife is a Black woman from Trinidad (I am white). She came to this country from a homeland where she grew up living in a dirt floor “hut”, walking 4 miles to school each day, etc., was shipped up here by her mother, struggled to get her high school education in an inner city school, took a series jobs after school (always improving her situation), went to college, studied to be a nurse, and is currently one of the most respected (and probably most envied) nurses where she works.
For her, it wasn’t about being black; it was about having a vision, being willing to work toward that goal (ignoring any/all opposition/road blocks) and achieving — the same path that we all must follow if we want to succeed in life.
She’s been shunned by other blacks everywhere she goes. She votes Conservative. Because her education during the formative years was under a British system, her dialect is clean of all African-Americanisms/pronunciations. She is Christian (in the true sense of the word, so “it is the Spirit which gives life, the flesh profits nothing”).
She does not join in when her African-American colleagues talk about “Whites did this,” etc. I’m not sure if she’s been told that to her face, but I am sure many have/would feel that way towards her.
I’m waiting for the fairness of affirmative action to land on sports teams.
Thanks for your reply. It confirms my view. The anti success, permanent victim view is actively encouraged and taught in America to support the leftist Democrat machine. Victim groups must never really prosper because they might become independent and think for themselves.
So what. I feel more out of place everyday as I see my country’s eventual slide toward communism/national socialism.
“Wake Up White People”
Daniel Carver
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