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