If you clicked on this because you saw it on the trending bar...
... you're racist.
shareWell yours was the first post in 7 years. So that's a good sign. But then again it's never been on MovieChat's trending bar.
shareAre you confirming that you're racist?
shareAll white people are racist.
shareNo comeback?
My parents were by no means liberal. I remember my mom said MLK was a "trouble maker".
However, when I was a kid my parents never allowed us to utter the 'n' word. But I think it was more a matter of class. They just viewed it as Southern white trash speak.
That being said, we white men all have white privilege. And no matter how many black people we know and like and even love, we white people still view them as "the other". We can't know their experience in our racist society.
This movie looks like saccharine bullshit trying to shock. The name is inappropriate and I doubt it tackles the real issue. The title is pretentious.
I also firmly believe that Obama was a white man.
No need for a comeback. The whities are racist.
share"I also firmly believe that Obama was a white man."
LMAO. . .to quote the poet: "People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
Haha. He's culturally "white". Yeah, that's right, Obama grew up with his white grandmother and white mother on the mean streets of Honolulu. 🤣
shareThe concept of "culturally white" is just as absurd as the idea that there is some scientific definition of "race." Both are social constructs, exactly as useful as Anybody decides they are. Shrug.
shareOh JFC. Yes, duh, I realize Obama is half black.
My point is that until he went into politics he was never part of the black American community.
African-Americans are proud of their contributions to the civil rights movement, to music, to culture in general.
So no, you're wrong. There is a black church. There is "black" music - soul, r&b, jazz, blues ...
There is a cuisine called "soul food".
Obama was reputed to be an atheist in college. Then he goes into politics and joins a black holy roller church? Really? You think he had a genuine conversion?
Obama's "blackness" is all very cynical and political. That's the point here.
You have NO IDEA what Obama's experience was growing up.
You have NO way of knowing how he was raised, what he went through, how people saw him, or how he saw himself.
You don't have the slightest idea what it's like to grow up "black," or half black looking white, or half black looking black, or half black looking "mixed."
All you have are pointless assumptions, and bad conclusions.
The sentence "he was never part of the black American community" has No Currency other than to demonstrate conclusively that you have no idea what you're talking about, but have no problem bleating nonsense anyway.
And to say there is "black" anything is so ridiculous that you should back away from your keyboard, and go sit down somewhere.
Go sit down somewhere. You're embarrassing yourself.
Hahaha. No, dear, you're getting very worked up over an observation about political cynicism. What is your problem here, exactly?
You claimed there is no such thing as a unique African-American culture. That's just not true. And you minimalize black contributions to American culture when you ignore unique cultural elements like music, religion, entertainment. Are you trying to tell me that white people invented blues and jazz? Open a history book some time.
And I do know what Obama's childhood was like. It's well documented. He was raised by white folks in both Hawaii and Indonesia, not the mean streets of a black American slum.
He never attended a black Protestant church in childhood. He attended both Catholic and Muslim schools in Indonesia and Hawaii. When did this college atheist convert to black Protestant Christianity? I have the answer: Obama first attended a black church in Illinois after he went into politics.
Huh? You can't say jazz and blues and soul and r&b are musical genres which were created by black folks? There is no "soul food"? There was no black civil rights movement? 🤪
You're an idiot.
LOL. . .that's cute. You think your stupidity has me "worked up."
No, dear. . .you are to be pitied.
Of course there's an "African-American culture." Of Course there's NOT a "unique African-American culture." You don't get the distinction, because you're an idiot.
Most of your screed is worthless, but since I'm bored:
"And I do know what Obama's childhood was like. It's well documented. He was raised by white folks in both Hawaii and Indonesia, not the mean streets of a black American slum."
Aaaaaaaand there it is. In your tiny mind, "the mean streets of a slum" defines "Black."
Your confusion about music, food & culture aside: You're an idiot.
Haha. So African-American culture is not unique? What is it the same as?🤪
As if it's racist to point out that black American culture was created by slavery, the struggle of the descendants of slaves, Jim Crow and segregation, and the burden of poverty and oppression - none of which Obama ever experienced in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Obama has little or nothing in common with most black Americans.
Obama is a white man in blackface.