So every generation someone has to make a film to get black people all riled-up at whites for things that happened hundreds of years ago to other people?
Posted on 11/27/2013 4:45:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m not a racist. But I do have a race problem. I finally owned up to it as I was anticipating seeing 12 Years a Slave. In the weeks leading up to its opening in my state of North Carolina, I tried to think of whom among my friends I could see this film with. I have a number of racially and ethnically diverse friends and acquaintances who would love to see it, and yet, I knew I could only see this movie alone or with another dark-skinned person.
This is hard to admit. I will hurt the feelings of people I love. But isn’t confession the first step to being reconciled? I have good, healthy friendships with a range of people, but I could not think of one white person where I live with whom I would feel emotionally safe enough to see this particular movie about slavery. I did not want to have to entertain any of the likely responses from anyone who could not see themselves in the skin of the enslaved men and women on the screen. I had no desire to dissect the film politically and theologically, engage in well-meaning social commentary, marvel at the history conveyed through the movie, or grieve over what was done to black people.
I did not want the burden of the social translations that black people so often have to do automatically on so many internal levels while engaging in discourse with whites in this country. There are things we learn to do almost subconsciously in order to keep some whites comfortable enough around our blackness. Things like gauging their actual level of interest or understanding of black culture in order to know how far to take a particular conversation....
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So every generation someone has to make a film to get black people all riled-up at whites for things that happened hundreds of years ago to other people?
Amen!
Maybe the writer would like to have a separate water fountain as well.
"I am not a crook."
A qoute from this “lady”:
“On Saturday, George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the trial for the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin. I was and have remained in shock. No—not shocked—devastated and dumbfounded, at a loss for words. Thinking immediately of my two little nephews who are growing up black and unarmed in America. Thinking for the first time that maybe there is a silver lining to not having children...”
“I did not want to have to entertain any of the likely responses from anyone who could not see themselves in the skin of the enslaved men and women...”
Always the victim. Always.
Hey, YO! Enuma Okoro
I went to college in Japan. I studied side by side with for real AFRICANS.
When the subject of black Americans came up, the consensus was, “We exported them once, if they come back, they won’t be so lucky the second time.”
Anyone who knows, knows.
Hey, YO! Enuma Okoro, wanna see a RACIST? Go sneak up on a mirror.
Who even thinks of writing an article like this? Who even thinks of publishing such a thing? The whole white guilt / black victim thing is disgusting. Some slaves had it bad. Some didn’t. Many were much worse off after “emancipation,” nwhich freed SOUTHERN SLAVES ONLY. The last slaves were freed in frickin’ New Jersey. You know why I won’t see that movie? Because I am sick to death of having slavery rammed down my and my kids’ throats. Oh! Another history class on slavery! How delightful! When will you learn some MATH?
Disgusting, preposterous bullcrap. Pull your pants up.
Her white friends sigh in relief that this drama queens isn’t going to ask them to join her in viewing a guilt trip movie.
Maybe she should talk to a Jew.
Refreshing that bigots can now enjoy bright daylight .
She's got this excuse-me-foreign name that sounds like a bacteria strain found in someone's lung. And yet her writing is as pretentious, clumsily sarcastic, and illiterate as any native-born affirmative-action case teaching at an American college.
So, which of these things is phony? Her name? Or her whole being?
Our accomplishments do not matter when we’re randomly accosted by police (Henry Louis Gates). Our leadership (Obama), our strengths, our beauty, our innocence (Trayvon), ....
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Being black in North Carolina means you can trample the hyacinths in the Governor’s yard with no retribution.
Don't ignore the author opening up about their feelings - they run deep in the black community - deeper than most whites will ever know.
Just sayin'...
As long as self-loathing whites continue to flock to these race-baiting, blacks-are-saints-white-are-devils movies, Hollywood will continue to make them.
“I wanted to sit in the pain and horror and soul-breaking sadness of a movie like 12 Years A Slave with another person like me—someone who is reminded every single day that we are black in America.”
I believe the word she was looking for is “wallow”. She wanted to wallow in horrible things that happened to other people which she has never, and will never experience. She’s a vicarious, voyeuristic masochist.
For what? Knockout game pointers?
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