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Another incomplete movie about blacks


It never ceases to amaze me how entertainment never gets it right. Sure. It might get some of it right. But somehow, blacks are glorified in the end. I have seen a side of black people that is rarely shown in Hollywood. I grew up near those neighborhoods and remember well how my parents had to call the police more often than not. Nothing but black women swearing at their children. Men (and sometimes women) fighting in the streets. Gangs hanging out in the streets, blocking traffic. Yelling words like Mutha *beep* and calling women hoes. This is far from isolated occurrences. Once I grew up, I moved around in various locations. Somehow, blacks moved in next to us. And the same continued. Riots in the streets. Cranking up rap music at 2am. Black boys bringing white trash home to do drugs.

People must really be dumbed down these days to believe that there is any real equality. It's an illusion. Blacks themselves are the reason for celebrating "Black History Month". Ever seen a White History Month? What do you think would happen if you did? They keep racism alive to avoid being truly equal. They wear their own clothes. Raise families in ways that aren't exactly "domestic". I have seen half black people go full black when the "bruthas" come around. There is no doubt that they are a different species altogether.

All in all. If you're going to portray a truth surrounding black people, show the whole thing. It's a normal day's occurrence to see them fighting like gorillas. Everything about them is unlike white people. Hence the reason why so many black comedians do white parodies. We are not the same. We don't think the same. We don't behave the same. Therefore, there is no EQUALITY. There can never be. So make all the black, liberal movies you like. They will never tell both sides. racism is here because it's NATURAL. They lived on a different continent for a reason.

I'm sure some whiny azz will get on here crying racism and prejudice...blah blah blah. Obviously they have never experienced what I have. I am just reminding people of the cold hard reality that will never go away.

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cooljoebay2, you're 100% right. But the double standard and sense of entitlement is so strong that it will never be told like that.

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@krypton_son

OH,please. Most of the OP's was just plain racist bull****. Yeah, there are black people who act like the OP described, but there are white folks who do the same stupid s*** too, yet no one ever seems to mention that. They'll overlook all the crazy dumb s*** some white folks do, but are quicker to complain about anything black folks do, as if we're the only ones who do that.

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i feel sorry for you...living your life as such a pathetic person...must be trying








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@cooljoebay2

You're just another typical ignorant,racist fool. So what if black people are different from white people? That sure as hell dosen't make us inferior, it just means we have different cultures. But white people have always used out differences to be racist as hell against us, and used those same differences to justify enslaving us in the first damn place. Which is what ROOTS is about. You're not even talking about the show---you just came on here to rant about your own racist bull****.

You are actually blind to the history of black people and how we were treated in this country? Yet another white fool complaining about the black people they used to live near, and just assuming that all black people are the same because of that (which we aren't.) Your whiny racist a** is the one that came on here whining about black people, so just STFU. And black people had separate things in this society for centuries because WHITE people wanted it that way, you idiot. That segregation s*** was forced on us. Obviously you didn't even see ROOTS, you just came to b**** about black people (who probably didn't like your racist a** anyway.) Pick up a damn history book and learn something. And, yes, we have Black History month because until the early 20th century, black people were told that we didn't have a history worth talking about, and black history wasn't even taught or even thought to be important enough to teach.

And calling us "gorillas"? We're not animals,we're people,you ignorant racist bastard. Guess you'd be happier living next door to a bunch of drunk rednecks blasting country music and shooting their guns off near your window every weekend,huh? Go fck out with your racist bull****.

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Whites never fight, right. You can't hardly go anywhere, in the North anyway, without some uptight redneck hick or some stuck up bitch getting up tight for the pettiest of reasons. Problem is too many whites are too cowardly to follow through on their empty threats and the women are just on some BS feminazi power trip.

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SMDH...Notice, this clown hasn't made any attempt to stand by his original post and he hasn't the courage to come back and reply to any of the responses. He's a typical big mouth, white coward. He starts a fight and then runs away to hide because he doesn't have the intelligence nor balls to deal with the backlash of his ridiculous, unbelievably ignorant, prejudice, bullsh!t. SMDH... Typical of a white coward. He had something that he obviously wanted to get off of his chest, that must have been building up for years but he's too weak and sorry to open his mouth and confront the actual individual/individuals that's the cause of his misery so he takes to the internet to rant about a whole race of people, who don't even know that he exists, let alone care about his idiotic opinion. However, he wasn't even man enough to do that because he quickly disappeared after his racist rant. If you don't have the balls to stand strong on the internet, I know you're too cowardly to stand by your opinion in person. That's what all of you big mouth, racist cowards do.






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cooljoebay2, I usually don't respond to such ignorant posts, but I feel I have to in this case because there is something obvious that you did not consider.

You seem to form your opinions of ALL African Americans based on the reasons you mentioned. But I live in a town where there are plenty of white people that do all the same horrible things you listed in your post if not worse! These people are just as trashy, loud mouthed, foul mouthed, criminals and you know what.....they are bad PEOPLE. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.

There are bad people in every race, religion or creed and there is very good people in every race, religion and creed so don't be obtuse and stereotype people.

Think long and hard about it before you say anything else so utterly ridiculous.

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