I love hood films but hood films dont represent every Black person.
Take moonlight for instance. Niggas were mad af about a film that highlighted the life of gay Black boy growing up in the hood but it mirrored the lives of so many Black LGBTQIA which is vital and dope and important
The point Im making is about representation. REPRESENTATION is important. Black people deserve a wide range of narratives whether its hood movies or shows like Shes gotta have it spotlighting Black womens sexuality outside of societal norms or even Slave hero movies like Django
We deserve different shows/movies that dont lump us all together or bootstrap us to stereotypical ideas of Black American life.
This movie is important and its dope.
This is a time where we are reclaiming our images and narratives.
Im all for Black futurism and thats exactly what this movies embodies.
We dont have to “either or” it as
@AP21 mentioned.
Why not both? and then some?
Race, to be 100% honest, yea i am being a bit animated and extra... but my core point holds tons of merit.
We as black people are very diverse....I don't know about yall, but i am a child of music....from like kindergarten i learned how to play the trumpet, and i used to study greats like louis armstrong and duke ellington, billie holiday...the birth of jazz...black film, black athletes.. all that.....
despite the pain, drugs, riots, the destruction of our community, i've always looked for and seeked out the good in our people...
I also like i've said multiple times got on of the most African names u gonna find on a black male...
my name is Diarra....that's not common for a male in america at all... in fact it's more of a family name from countries like Mali.....you goolge diarra, yo're gonna see a whole bunch of soccer players and politicians from africa with my name as their last name
the kid in blood diamond was named Dia which is a shortened version of my name....however again as i stated a few pages ago.... my name along with my appearance, i have been commonly mistaken for African..even amongst other africans....
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my perception of Africans is from 36 years of walking on this planet....they dont fuck with us.....i've learned a shit load abtu different afrrican cultures... i have about 7-8 nigerian friends...most from college...they deep up in philly.... but largely as a whole... africans don't fuck with us....and i've accepted that and moved on decades ago... i still think african culture is beautiful, and i see nothing wrong with learning about it, and even though i'm trolling a bit here....i really don't mind folk embracing it either...
if that's their thing, that's cool..
but what i don't like is the dismissal of contributing aspects of our personality being tossed aside for a fictional country..
i consider shit like new jack city, menace 2 society, boyz n the hood, south central, paid in full, belly...classics....i saw them shits in the theater, i was excited.... many folk were excited we enjoyed these movies, we bought them, we all have them i our homes...
how does this new movie suddenly make us tired of these images??
i hate that mindset....
i mean if you're excited about BP fine, be excited about it, but don't use this as soapbox to shit on black film as a while, like nothing black film ever did was as significant as this movie..
a comic book movie about a fake african country cannot be the most important movie for blatghtck america in the history of cinema....
and i never thought it was until niggaz just started hopping on the hype train and going way over board....
i mean at this point i'm just repeating myself, which is why i am trolling a bit too.....but yal gotta admit niggaz is doing too much...
but if yall gonna defend it...imma keep on being a dick about it....cuz yall being dicks to black american culture, and i'm not gonna pretend it's not what i see it as
