AgnesGooch
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As a Brit, I love Jim crow era shows/movies because they are educational. Also it is a horror series, which is very unique because racism is horror just as much as supernatural.
I've talked on here about how I'm a writer. Last year when I was shopping around for agents I started receiving notes from this one agency. It was for a rom com script whose protagonist is a Black female. One of the FIRST notes that she came back to me with was inquiring about the lead's "family life and background." I saw where she was coming from right away. No, the character does not have some terrible horrible background. There are happy black stories and people out there. Hi, we exist.
There are tons of positive stories being written about our experience but those don't fit Hollywood's agenda. There are people who legit get off on our pain. That's why I get so frustrated with creatives like Tyler Perry. He has all of the resources in the world to give a platform to GOOD writers and creators without having to go through Hollywood, yet he squanders it on mediocracy.
Also what OP is saying explains why whenever there are photos of older black people smiling or living their life, people are like "wow I can't believe you can smile, imagine what you went through back then, and how hard life was" etc. like black people were supposed to be scared and downtrodden 24/7 or something. Most people were worried about the things we worry about now getting a man, making enough money to have a household and some niceties, gossip, your mom/dad intruding in your life in some way, someone taking your man etc.....
No is saying ignore the past but stop using it as profit and to educate the very people who have no problem killing usIdk where this wave of ignore our past came from.
And its interesting because theres a lot of our history most people don't know about or have limited knowledge of.
The Watchmen and Lovecraft Country introduced a lot of people to the Black Wall Street massacre.
I think there's a hidden agenda being created by certain people to make sure our history is forgotten forever.
No is saying ignore the past but stop using it as profit and to educate the very people who have no problem killing us
Schindler's list also didn't have monsters, ghosts, and goblins running around and the pure murder of Jewish babies being placed in furnaces.Schindler's list was one of the most powerful movies about the holocaust.
It was also for profit.
Why are only Black people told to shut up about what happened to us?
Yoi really are trying to downplay what our ancestors went through
They experienced real trauma. And while they were able to live through it please dont make it seem as if it was nothing.
We are affected by police shootings.
I'm sure they were affected by the KKK kidnappings, the violent segregation and simply not having a recourse against racial violence.
Schindler's list also didn't have monsters, ghosts, and goblins running around and the pure murder of Jewish babies being placed in furnaces.
I'm not downplaying anything. I am saying what day to day life was like. Day to day people were not thinking about the KKK or segregation. Just like today there is extreme racism and extreme economic disparity but what are the topics people are talking about on LSA and filling their minds with? Youtube personalities, drama going on in your own life family/personal relationships, sports, movies, music etc. People were not living in an active state of trauma 24/7.
Ok but did they have the brutalization of Jewish babies? They didn't even touch on the full horrors of Holocaust but when it's us they put babies in sheets, black people getting their fingers cut, eyes burnt out, and being called *********** throughout the film.There has been fictionalized holocaust movies as well.
Ok but did they have the brutalization of Jewish babies? They didn't even touch on the full horrors of Holocaust but when it's us they put babies in sheets, black people getting their fingers cut, eyes burnt out, and being called *********** throughout the film.
All the while black people unlike Jewish people are still facing traumatic racism.
Black women are more likely to die in during child birthing than anyone
Black people were the number 1 group dying of COVID
Still facing police brutality
Our plight is never taken seriously
Ok but did they have the brutalization of Jewish babies? They didn't even touch on the full horrors of Holocaust but when it's us they put babies in sheets, black people getting their fingers cut, eyes burnt out, and being called *********** throughout the film.
All the while black people unlike Jewish people are still facing traumatic racism.
Black women are more likely to die in during child birthing than anyone
Black people were the number 1 group dying of COVID
Still facing police brutality
Our plight is never taken seriously
Yall been saying there's other ways to learn but that's obvious a lie with how ignorant people are of our history.
Whole massacres are forgotten because the stories are not told.
Jews make 50 million movies on the holocaust for a reason!
Most people didnt even know Harriet Tubman's role in the civil war.
Like just be honest. All the reasons yall list of not wanting these movies to be made center on white people.
This is about US and our histo And to make sure this sh!t is remembered forever.
But I guess your way makes sense. They teach kids in school that slaves were just workers and we stay silent on our stories because something something white people.
It makes total sense.
It's OBVIOUSLY A LIE that there are other ways to to tell our story? Huh? so did we just start telling our stories when movies started? If movies stop, are we now fµcked? What do you have against books? Or is that obvious as well?Yall been saying there's other ways to learn but that's obvious a lie with how ignorant people are of our history.
Whole massacres are forgotten because the stories are not told.
Jews make 50 million movies on the holocaust for a reason!
Most people didnt even know Harriet Tubman's role in the civil war.
Like just be honest. All the reasons yall list of not wanting these movies to be made center on white people.
This is about US and our history. And to make sure this sh!t is remembered forever.
But I guess your way makes sense. They teach kids in school that slaves were just workers and we stay silent on our stories because something something white people.
It makes total sense.
It's OBVIOUSLY A LIE that there are other ways to to tell our story? Huh? so did we just start telling our stories when movies started? If movies stop, are we now fµcked? What do you have against books? Or is that obvious as well?
We should encourage fleshed out well written stories about black life regardless of its intent/message. All stories should be welcomed. When we start to attack movies about black trauma as a whole it will discourage production companies from taking on stories that are painful BUT authentic.
I respect your message but we should be specific with our criticism. If it's about Them criticize "Them".
Everyone has a choice and it seems people would rather make choices just to complain about them later. There was a time when these stories weren't told.
And white people aren't the only ones that need to be educated..
This mods this is the type of person that needs to be bannedonly 2 black women on your little list huh........you just told on yourself......we see you.....
Omg yes I agree. I started watching the show about 20 minutes in I was like this don’t make no sense. Why would this entire black family want to move into a entire white neighborhood. And the deed literally said no negro blood can move in the house. That is when I turned the show off right then and there. For sheer dumbness and seeing exactly what racist path this show was gonna go and I was not tryna watch.White people know, they don't care. They've been telling us for 100s of years what they think about us and they feel we should be treated. It's about time Black people started listening to them. If white people wanted to change, they would. It's as simple as that. With that said, it's important for movies that tell the truth about history get made.
As for Them, I'm happy a Black director and Black actors got work, but I have no desire to watch it. The whole premise doesn't even make any sense to me. Why would this Black woman want to move into a white neighborhood in the first place?
Why would this entire black family want to move into a entire white neighborhood
I agree with the bolded.Idk where this wave of ignore our past came from.
And its interesting because theres a lot of our history most people don't know about or have limited knowledge of.
The Watchmen and Lovecraft Country introduced a lot of people to the Black Wall Street massacre.
I think there's a hidden agenda being created by certain people to make sure our history is forgotten forever.