RusselWilsonJr
Who do you think you are? I am
What I see there is me stating one very specific thing, and you saying I'm implying something else
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I said exactly what I said
Viola Davis: "I Betrayed Myself, And My People" By Starring In "The Help"
- Thread starter Maza Yanga
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I said exactly what I said
Dwayne
Just a lowkey chill guy
IP360
Doctorate & Ph.D in Bootyology
I can't watch any movie dealing with slavery, civil rights and stuff making black people look inferior. At the same time I'm also tired of the black drug dealer/street nigga movies and roles, these actors and actresses are better than that.
Maza Yanga
Active Member
DOS_patos
Unverified Legion of Trill member
an this problem comes from them having too much control and are able to pigeon hole us.
if we dont have our own table......they get to dictate what part you play and how you should act.
i hope most people are waking up to this.
if its anything that i want out of all this shit going on currently is for black people to take their rightful place.
we dont need to beg and take substandard roles and only be seen as needing pity or help.
g-dog-ona-flytip
"lemme break it down for you one time.."
* raises fist for the cause
These movies are designed to make white people feel better about how they treated black people. That’s why there’s always a white savior. So they can say “see see not all white people”. They’ll throw in a fucked up black person mainly a black man for “balance”.
Maza Yanga
Active Member
Random asf.
Otis
Member
a fucking shame how they blackballed this man. Movie was being praised then they me too him before the premiere after sexual assault case 15 years prior had due process. It was an unfortunate story but he didn’t deserve that.
I’m salty will smith got a slave movie coming...
Every black person in Hollywood should be working with or out of Tyler Perry Studios or building their own. Even Netflix where we have the creative freedom to tell our stories how they need to be told and presented. I love what dame dash trying to do.
DOS_patos
Unverified Legion of Trill member
we dont need a "madea in the 1700s" movie
mryounggun
OG
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mryounggun
OG
No, nigga. We not there yet.
DOS_patos
Unverified Legion of Trill member
f you bruh
CeLLar-DooR
OG
I haven't seen one of these happy nigger movies in a hot sec.
CeLLar-DooR
OG
Maaaan Black Panther was black AF and it really really didn't need to be. Cudda had BP in the US for the whole movie and who would have complained.
The hero is black the antagonist is black and relatable and the white person in the movie is shown to be casually racist as well.
I've got no beefs with it at all (from the black perspective anyway. As a movie it cudda been better)
The hero is black the antagonist is black and relatable and the white person in the movie is shown to be casually racist as well.
I've got no beefs with it at all (from the black perspective anyway. As a movie it cudda been better)
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The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
She shouldn't feel like she betrayed anyone for taking that role.. She's an actress. It wasn't an out of line role. The problem isn't that there are some movies made about the times when blacks were servants. The problem is that there are too many movies made about that. The fault for that is not on the actors and actresses, but on the people that decide which movies get made and which didn't. If there was a fair balance of movies like The Help and then more positive roles for blacks then it wouldn't matter.
K
King Freeman
Guest
If our best actors turn down these roles they don't get the same critical acclaim and they get pumped out less. She has a role to play and I respect her for acknowledging it and taking her part of the blame.