The Zone with Dev: Red Tails Film Controversy

Dev, from the Zone, talks with caller Saleema about the film Red Tails and the controversy behind Hollywood not backing the film because of an all black cast and George Lucas needing financial investment help from Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry to get the movie in theaters.

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[blackbolt75]

Typical black woman.

[MrHolipsism]

@blackbolt75 Typical? A Black woman who will only deal with her Black Brothas and screams on Black women who sleep with white men? I wish that were typical, family. I should be so lucky as to be around that type of typical Black woman. The typical BW to me is Toni Braxton. She don't care what color runs up in her.

[plo617]

If George Lucas only cared about making a movie with air combat, he could have picked a dozen or so other stories about white pilots, (or just made a Star Wars based one) and made way more money. However, he took a risk by financing a movie with a mostly Black cast/Black director. I agree that we need raw movies, made about the Black experience. However, not supporting this movie, is just going to make those raw movies even harder to get made.

[MrHolipsism]

@plo617 I agree. I can understand people not feeling the concept of Afrikans fighting to protect the lives of men they couldn't even eat next to or even having a problem with Patriotism to this country, but....ban it? No way. At the end of the day it is just a movie. If we had studios of our own we can show a different side. But to not have one and complain about it is disingenuous. Although, I had absolutely no problem with Saleema's rant because I felt her frustration with us.

[medit84truth]

As soon as I saw Cuba on FOX doing a segment on Mike Huckabee's show promoting Red Tails, it was a wrap. Ppl act like white folk don't like these historical "feel good" movies? These films wash their conscience of recent &/or current racism by showing how far Amurca has come from the racism "back then". "Feel good" movies in place of actual "justice" & "feel good" interracial ice breakers in place of "honest dialog". Every other white person I see will ask, "Did you see Red Tails?" GTFO of here!

[UHURUH55]

their is movies about the experiment(mrs. evers boys) and about the red tails( tuskegee airmen) both movies came out in the 90's

[kushiteprince]

@MrHolipsism I didn't care for the film myself. There were no black women in the entire film! And the one pilot falls head over heels for a Italian chick.They could've at least showed one of the pilots calling his wife back home. This was just more Hollyweird propaganda. They still had to slip in that interracial nonsense. I wanted my money back!

[SelRastan]

Hey Holip, I don't understand Saleema's rant about not telling the true story, which has been done before, maybe not on the silver screen but on HBO, i.e. "The Tuskegee Airmen" which aired in 1995, about how the airmen were, harrassed and told they were incompetant, eventually having to prove themselves. Then there was "Ms. Ever's Boys", which aired in 1997, about the syphilis experiments the airmen indured. Sooooo I'm not getting the hostility regading the Red Tails, it's just another movie.

[thety5489]

My kinda sister.

[MrHolipsism]

@ancel1961 The truth? You mean like they embraced the truth in the movie 300? Like they embraced the truth in the movie HERO? Other groups are more interested in inspiring their people with larger than life characters and stories than providing them with truth, Family.

[keelamwri]

@Bellamora72001

KMT was NOT the only or accomplishment that Africans made prior to being enslaved by Europeans; not in the slightest, and most Africans were NEVER kings or queens (less than 1 percent).

Not everything great about Africa has to do with "royalty" or KMT. It's unfortunate at how many Africans follow this mentality.

Just goes to show how little Africans truly know and think of the greatness of the WHOLE of Africa.

[ancel1961]

@TakeNotesINC

Dev & Salleema try to make all of us & all of our ancestors appear to be benevolent victims of White bigotry.

If George Lucas produced a totally factual film about the life of Mary Starke Harper, her role in the Tuskegee Experiment, the discrimination she faced during her career, and those who discriminated against her the most as she tried to help Blacks, many of us would say the film was a lie.

Many Blacks don't want to see the truth.

It's easier on the conscience to be victims