I wanna try to make this brief, since I've been dubbed "long-winded"...funny...
Anybody who knows me knows I love and hate all people equally...I always recognize race and I always recognize racism and I always realize it's difficult for people to admit the truth of what I just said when it comes to themselves and others around them. I know, they like to tell the news crew they want everyone to be treated equally maybe it "relieves" the heavy load of guilt that rides on their shoulders...doubtful, they don't feel guilt. The subject of this particular blog is something I have thought about for awhile, hoped I could ignore so I can enjoy it for what it is, but I'm afraid to say I can't pretend to ignore it anymore, and my greatest love of all may be in jeopardy of becoming an ever present reminder of the bigotry that lurks around every corner. (cue dramatic music)
I'm talking about movies. I love my movies. If itsa good one, I'll watch it several hundred times within the first week or so of first seeing it. I own...too many...yet not enough...and I can quote word for word of alot of em. I am a movie buff, if there's nothing to do I pop in a movie, if I'm mad at you or you wanna get on my good side..treat me to a movie (a good one, but I'm not too hard to please). But recently I've noticed the movies are all...a bit monochromatic...and IF there is some color to the film, it is made to look..well...ridiculous (not all of the time, but a lot of the time).I just saw Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian yesterday, which was really good, and they even threw in some color...a giant black dude with a horse's body...a centaur, for those of you who are not nerds...(oh yea, then there were the menataurs...pff) this guy was a darker dude, with a light brown wig of wavy hair...c'mon really? Unless ol dude had some Indian in him, that combination won't happen lol...ok ok its "fantasy" whatev I just want to know why people of color cannot have the same fantastical movies made with them as the majority cast. Why can't we save middle earth? Why can't we design an ultra-sleek "iron" suit? Why must all of the movies with an all black cast, or mostly black cast, have some 30-something single mother eating a plate of fried chicken and greens waiting on her son who's out gang bangin' at 3 am....?
Why in Star Wars, the only other person of color, besides that jedi dude, who got kilt I might add, is some assassin who's trying to kill the "fair" maiden in distress AND is the blueprint for an entire army which is used to take over the galaxy...whaaaaa?
Why in Shrek is the only black guy an donkey.....
Why are the only group of people of color creepy scary natives that exhibit wonderful traits and rituals such as cannibalism and kidnapping in both King Kong and Pirates of the Caribbean?..and for that matter Planet of the Apes (yea that was uber-racist..if u didn't notice, you're blind) ummmmm...not to mention the king, Kong, himself...black men always wantin white chicks.........? and gettin kilt for it.....
Why in Sphere, everybody's all freaked out and drugging the only black guy with them..who happens to be smarter than them all as well...funny...Why in Snatch are the black guys the only ones who get caught?
Why is harry potter's god father's name Serious Black? the most feared/hated man besides Volde-...you know who...
Why are 2/3 of the movies I own, probably more, in lack of any black person at all, or any other colors for that matter...
I'm just getting tired of NOT seeing "my face" up there saving the world...it's just another blatant reminder of the inequality that is still here...to me an all black cast in a movie not dealing with baby mama drama or court or soooooooul food etc is about as likely as a black president (well there was The Wiz)....yea I said it...Hey...I want Obama to win and go on to be president...I do, but the reality of it is even if he wins the nomination he won't get the presidency, Yankee or Confederate, people are not gonna vote for him because he's black...bottom line...either that or his clear as mud Muslim background and secret support...pff....because "you can't be a good American and be Muslim", according to one very sure Kentuckian...the you-tube is belowI'm just sayin....
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Below are some interesting facts/links I found even if you don't read this whole thing, take a look at them...
**surprising little note here, I was trying to find some solace in the fact that the prince, in Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, is Spanish...or something that has somewhat of a tint...but when I looked at his biography on IMDb.com his heritage is English, German, Welsh...and are you ready?..Afro-Caribbean....I know!! dude is 1/4 black!! I love him and his beautiful face even more ;)
**Fear of Islam hurts Obama: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-palevsky/fear-of-islam-hurts-obama_b_103305.html
**this thing is funny as heck!
**And the cout de gras!
