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Sunday, August 14, 2011

The Help: Jim Crow Rules Were Black Folks Blues

American Version: Birds on a Wire
Overseas Version: Still birds on a wire















Forgive the title of this post but if they can reduce our history during that time period to simply two words then surely my 7 won't be considered too dismissive, right?!  To all the white people involved in the making of this book and the movie: You all never seem to disappoint us poor and hapless black people with the level of your prolific ignorance in the constant telling of black people's stories in a completely unrealistic and insensitive manner.   But then, you wouldn't be you if you did, now would you? As evidenced by these covers American white people are just so deceitful considerate of black people's sensibility.


The shallow white lens strikes again and continues to plague the telling of black stories on film and in print by irresponsibly (as usual) lessening white people's negative impact on black lives in America.  White people continue to be cowards in acknowledging that truth with the respect that it deserves. White people want to preserve a redacted history in order to preserve a false sense of good will and superiority.  But they are not alone in this because black people don't want to acknowledge and accept the truth of our negative assault by them either.  Black people that allow this kind of garbage to be seen as harmless entertainment are motivated out of shame and a fear of truly accepting having been abused under that false good will and superiority.  Those black people believe that to do otherwise means that we believe that we were less than white people rather than the fact that we were treated inexcusably as less than by white people.

Friday, August 5, 2011

What is a throne with sh*t as the foundation?!

...and fools shall lead them

Oh, how I wish people would wake the hell up! Could there ever really be an intelligent and reasoned dialogue about the c*rap*tacular industry's assault on impressionable minds without some rabid fan frothing at the mouth to defend the industry or the artist that doesn't give enough of a d*mn about them?  Yes, they care about your money.  But you, not so much. The reason that I know they (they being the "artist" and their corporate overseers) don't care about you.  Here is but one example of many, Jay-Z and Kanye West's lyrics to their new and much celebrated (by the clueless) release Otis from their forthcoming album.