Love the story, love the actors and I think Lemmons (Eve's Bayou) is a great, great director but can't and WILL NOT support anything with Cedric the Entertainer who said a line (Rosa Parks didnt do nothing but sit her black as* down)-I will not suport any film with him in it.
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You are not supporting something because the character of Eddie in Barbershop, not Cedric the Entertainer said something about Rosa Parks? Whom you need to boycott is the screenwriter for writing the line; the director for filming the line and keeping it in the movie; the studio who financed and released the film with such a remark in their product; and the producers of the film who shepharded the product through the studio, hired the screenwriter and director. Your means of boycott is severely misguided.
shareSo you're going to miss out on a great movie because of another movie that's non-related? I don't see the logic in it.
BumbleBee! Stop lubricating the man!
Thats why Americans cant and wont progress...
share"Thats why Americans cant and wont progress..."
Keep away from our cultural achievements (ie, American film) and then your comments won't be laced with hypocrisy. I mean if we're so terrible, why are you squatting on message boards about our movies?
yeah. The point He was getting across (I can't remember it quote for quote) was that there were probably black people before her who did the same thing that wound up in jail or probably murdered. But you don't hear about them because they were not friends with MLK Jr. Now I am most glad that Rosa Parks did what she did and I'm not saying you have to agree with what he said but that doesn't mean that it's not true.
BumbleBee! Stop lubricating the man!
Actually there were other blacks who did what she did first. Jackie Robinson did it back in the 40s I believe before he became a major league baseball star. The reverend who preceeded Martin Luther King (Vernon Johns) also took this course of action (here's the link to the IMDB page for the movie based on his life http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111611/ ). And these ae just the well known (relatively speaking in Johns' case) people who took sch a defiant approach. There were others whom we'll likely never know about unless we dig up a bunch of old newspaper archives.
Rosa Parks had a few benefits that made her the perfect person to get behin:
1-She was a female which meant it was easier for the black community to get more angry over her situation and it was easier for the nation as a whole to be sympathetic.
2-She was a ediucated, respectable professional woman with an equally respectable husband. The would-be Civil Rights movement wanted people with very little charater flaws to be put in the spotlight.
3-Her light complexion, in both the white and black communities, made her a more sympathetic human being in that her humanity waasn't denied her as easily as it may have been with a dark skinned black person. Some people may not like hearing that but to this day in countries all over the world the media (entertainment and news) are much more likley to give attention or the sootlight to those with lighter ski over those with darker skin (India, Brazil, Spanish-speaking countries on the American continents, Mid East nations, USA, etc.)
4-It was a more perfect time for the black community to be seek change.
I'm not taking anything aaway from Ms Parks. Just pointing out a fact. It wasn't her fault that King and others made her the symbol of racial injustice. Nor is it her fault that simplistic American schol history makes her out as being the first black person to refuse giving up her seat.
With all that said one has to be a retard to boycott this movie simply because Cedric played a character in another film that said negative things about Rosa Parks. That person is likely not sharp enough to appreciate this movie anyway.
There were others whom we'll likely never know about unless we dig up a bunch of old newspaper archives. . . The would-be Civil Rights movement wanted people with very little charater flaws to be put in the spotlight.
Yes, there was a lot about this in the paper when Rosa Parks died. That she was far from the first, in fact there was another woman not long before Rosa, but the movement was waiting for someone more respectable. As you say, not her fault, and she sacrificed a lot personally to be the face of that cause.
With all that said one has to be a retard to boycott this movie simply because Cedric played a character in another film that said negative things about Rosa Parks. That person is likely not sharp enough to appreciate this movie anyway.
I agree. I did not see the Barbershop movie but I thought one of the goals of it was to give a voice to black Americans who usually don't have a voice. That included the character (not Cedric himself) who has views that apparently are not PC in the black community.
In a way, that mirrors what Petey Greene did. He was the voice of the people. At the beginning, he says some disrespectful things about Barry Gordy on the air and when there is an uproar among the station management, his response was that he is just saying what other blacks, the people, are saying. So yeah, the OP probably couldn't handle this movie either.
that *beep* is true though.
shareit was part of the script, dont be idiotic
shareI think that Cedric the Entertainer is just that, an Entertainer. He did not write the script for Barbershop 1 or 2. I respect you convictions, however misplaced, but believe that you will enjoy this movie. This movie will help you re-evaluate the convictions you have and re-enforce them. I'm glad Mrs. Parks sat down, because that was her only way to make a stand.
shareYour mixed up. I'm black and I'm not offended about a part a man played in a movie. Have you been in a black barber shop lately. It's no holds bar when you bring up a topic. You might want to hang with some black people once in a while.
shareCedrc the Entertainer did not write the story or the screenply for Barbershop, he was just an actor. Mark Brown is the person you should be angry with, not Cedric. Actually you shouldn't be mad at Brown because it was a comedy. This was blown way out of proportion, which is what idiots like Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton are known for; building mountains out of mole hills.
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