this week tyler perry got some type of award from rev. al sharpton & was all "i represent all black people.blahblahblah. we should focus on being ourselves, not on getting an education, blahblahblah".
eh
mind you, i have only seen 1 tyler perry movie all the way through without changing the channel: "madea goes to jail". it was funny, yes. it was mind numbingly stupid, yes. did it represent me, no. would i pay to see any of his other films? no
i also tried to watch his tv show "house of pain" but that left me with a migraine. all yelling, bad over acting, & jokes written by 9 year olds.
the problem is not with tyler perry(though he should come out of the closet & stop playing).i admire the fact that he can make millions of dollars with the horrible movies he makes.my problem is that he is really the only black man with power in hollywood & instead of making art, he is making paper(as the kids would say). all i see is bad portrayals of black people. we are ghetto, we are illiterate, we are gangsters,we are angry, we are whores, etc. it would be nice if at least our own people would make great positive films showing us as we really are: complex but people the same as anyone else.
how about making a scifi movie with an all black cast?or a historical movie with an all black cast that is NOT set in the civil war?or a dramatic movie with an all black cast that doesn't have basketball in it? how about having a tv show like "the cosby show" with positive black role models on it? how about a movie about our first black president?
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my head hurts & time for my nap.just something for us all to think about
"Don’t stare at me, baby. You can see me in the movies" Rita Hayworth
Showing posts with label bill cosby. Show all posts
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7/18/09
who knew Bill Cosby was so f*ckin' smart?
source: snopes & deciever
Here are some quotes from Cosby’s May 2004 speech at an NAACP event for the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education
They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?
…We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
Here are some quotes from Cosby’s May 2004 speech at an NAACP event for the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education
They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?
…We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
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