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[cnalady1979]

OBAMA FOR 2012

[blacksultan85]

i heard when ppl in Europe saw the Civil Rights Movement on TV about black folks in the south being showered with milkshake by whites in a diner,they shook they heads and said ''i thought America was suppose to be the land of the free''

[2Baiforev]

they should have known the guy was fake by the way he was singing!! Fake!!!

[Pfield82]

Melvin, isn't wasting time. He's talking about history. Somethings a younger generation might not even know about. Also, it's easy to just tell someone to make movies when it's hard as hell do get a black film made and distrubuted correctly these days.

[pundar]

melvin van peebles needs to quit bitching about the past. if he wants to do something make a film.

[MGSFan22]

@pundar Everything he said will always be relevant, he's not bitching, he's telling you the truth, whether you accept it or not is your problem.

[pundar]

@MGSFan22 unless he has a time machine ha can't go back and change the past. If he wants to change the landscape of filmmaking he needs to make a film, one that actually has a plot and one that's palatable to a big audience. What i see is an old man who's bitching about movies. Yes there has been a lot of really horrible stereotypes, but everyone knows that. He's only wasting time with this project when he can make one that can actually be positive.

[MGSFan22]

@pundar I noticed that his newer films are hard to find, specifically Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha and Bellyful, but I heard great things about them and I'd love to get the chance to watch them.

[ronnymob]

thanks for posting we need this knowledge this is the truth

[Angelmickey32]

what movie is at 6:16



[sohotrnow1]

winnie the pooh is black

[Angelmickey32]

what movie is at 6:10

[guidofski]

"Gone With The Wind". Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) slaps Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) for lying about knowing how to deliver babies.

[jagib2]

that message is also that hollywood is still & always has been, the defender of ' the white superiority complex'.

so deeply rooted in american social/culture, this notion of race is.

it may take many generations to overcome racism that has been intrinsic to America since before it's birth.

[geoguy91]

@jagib2 racism is intrinsic to World culture. Why do you think the races separated in the first place? If you only knew about people with the same type of skin, hair, and facial structures as you, you'd freak out just as bad when you saw these new strange races. Of course racism is intrinsic to America because IT'S INTRINSIC TO HUMANITY. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY VICIOUS MINDSET, ONE THAT WILL REQUIRE MUCH MORE EFFORT THAN ANY HAVE EVER THOUGHT OF TO STOP. It may never end.

[jagib2]

@geoguy91 ,

there is no such thing as race. people walked out of Africa 50,000 years ago.

europe was the last area to be populated by humans, only 30,000 years age.

every continent was first connected to Africa, then seperated by oceans millions of years ago.

there is only one race - the human race. racism is not intrinsic to humanity.

ignorance is, and you get your racist ideas from it. geo dum guy91

[geoguy91]

@jagib2 well if ignorance is intrinsic to humanity, then why are you so intelligent, asshole? I'm not a racist; concepts get passed through generations, and obviously many of the original humans left to settle far away, and were greatly shocked to meet people they had never heard of existing. This is the basis of racism. If I was actually more racist than society allows, I wouldn't say that racism requires never-before-thought-of effort on the part of government and society to stop it. THINK.

[TBombshell]

the message that mr. peebles is attempting to relay is that hollywood is strategic / tactical in the way it places it's actors. whether black, white or a mix of the 2... the pairing of the actors is to reach a certain demographic to gain viewers to make money. i'm sure it's more than just about money since t.v. shows are called "programs" then it seems to be more so about a program to instill a message to the viewer. but then again we only use 3% of our brains so you probably stop reading...

[MrJsmit]

Halle Berry is actually mixed with black and white so she pairs as a double color to me.

[WillBobAl4ever]

I'm not exactly sure what he said about Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Did he think it was somewhat racist?

[xyzaffair]

I think he said the black guy in the film was accomplished and she was not attractive, so he was saying how an unseen, outcast white women is equivalant to any accomplished Black. I have not seen the film. Peebles viewpoint is hollywood glamorizing and profiting off 'what Blacks want. Assuming 'what blacks want,' is racist to Peebles, one cannot put people in groups or just have the same, redundant role. It makes revolutionary parts seem racist, because they're changing perspectives.

[KadieBlue]

Actually, I see more black women paired with white men than vice versa, especially in television.

[pytko3]

If the stories were believable, I would accept either kind of pairing. I'm that kind of critic.

[thasaga87]

@KadieBlue yeah it's been an overwhelming amout of black women &white men couples in movies & t.v, lately. There's nothing wrong with that, not at all, but it's happening all the time making me wonder if it's an agenda behind it. Nobody seems to really notice it, although.

[edupbeat]

@thasaga87 oh no, us bm notice it, ( & i'm only 29 ) but if u tell this 2 a gen "Y" or younger black woman she chalks it up as one being "not open minded", or "you're living in the past", i just sit there & say wow!

[merkwurdiglieber]

not really.

[longtallsallie08]

seems like Halle and Thandie always are

[ethansolal]

Thank you I was looking for it.