Friday, March 7, 2014

Where da Happy Negras At?

Well lemme see, where does one begin to unpack this shit...

According to American Spectator, the magazine, the movie 12 Years a Slave is propaganda while Gone With the Wind, is only presumptively false and that presumption comes in the mind of 12YAS director Steve McQueen.

Author James Bowman says of course there were happy slaves during slavery, McQueen chose to focus only on the bad. It's not the truth...it's politics...

Yes, there was much cruelty and hardship in the slave-owning South, as there has been in most of the rest of the world most of the time, and Mr. McQueen’s camera is al-l over that. But it strains ordinary credulity to suppose that there was nothing else.” -James Bowman

Surely there must have been contented slaves somewhere in the Old South, surely, he asks.

Maybe. Many Black people believe that Jesus was really white, too, so I guess there may have been some slaves somewhere doing the happy dance at the first sight of ole massa risin' up in the mornin.'

Bowman, who is the magazine movie critic, by the way, did like actor Chewitel Ojiofor's performance as Solomon Northrup, but likened Michael Fassbinder's portrayal to that of a comic book Simon LeGree, of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame.

No mention made of the female acting....women not necessary then or now, it seems.

And as for White Jesus, another paean by Hollywood was released last week to much acclaim. This one was actually made up of outtakes or unused tape from a TV series from last year that played on cable...same story, same actors, and same footage, same hype.

Nothing new here, except this time believers were asked to pay $10 for the privilege. The same will be true for the upcoming NOAH starring Russell Crowe..loved me some Gladiator, but NOAH? (are we gonna finally see why the children of Ham were cursed and turned Black?) But I digress.........

It did get me thinking about what happened the last time somebody tried to portray Jesus as a Black man in the national arena...it was Madonna in her famous Pepsi commercial that was shown once and then yanked because it pissed off Christians of all creeds and colors.

Girlfriend even had to give back her $5 million paycheck because of it. You can remember it here.









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