Hi slickr :)
It appears that race is an issue you feel passionate about but it also seems that the information which you use to support your conclusions is unreliable. I read the thread, so I don't just mean in this post... where are you getting your statistics? Please post links. :)
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm
It is made up in 99% of the cases! It is usually made up from white sissy types who are still apologetic about things that happened 200-300 years ago, well guess what whites were also slaves back then, everyone was a slave.
You had a small aristocracy and stuff that ruled, and everyone else was essentially a slave.
This is one reliable source:
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/05/06/institutional-racism-is-our-way-of-lifeAgain, just the black actors I mentioned are represented in over 30% of the movies, I'm yet to see a movie where there is no black guy, especially the bigger ones who do make over 10m on the box office. So when blacks are only a small 13% of the population, yet are represented over 30% in movies, they are over represented, a realistic representation would have to have them less in movies, NOT more!
Source links please. :)
One of my favorite films about slavery and racism and uniting hearts and minds to make actionable progress:
Amazing Grace
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454776/?ref_=nv_sr_5The facts about minority representation in media can be found here:
https://youtu.be/2rAPOaejTeEThe elephant in the room is that it is women whom are under-represented. The issue of depictions of minorities will be at least halfway addressed by solving the disparity for women. But, racism serves the divide and conquer agenda, so the problem is ongoing. The oppression of women is hardly a discussion on the table and the propaganda would have us believe that racism is a larger and more dangerous problem than sexism, but the facts are there for those interested.
I suggest these sources, but there are many other valid options, too. :)
CIA World Factbook
World Health Organization
Amnesty International
American Civil Liberties Union
Taking even a half hour of your life to peruse these sites does expand the personal view which may be a great step towards making the world a more fair place for all of us. :)
All major studies have shows you only need 3 basic things to succeed in life and have better life: Finish high school with DECENT scores, don't get pregnant out of wedlock and don't engage in criminal activity!
Which studies, specifically?
I ask because I always like to see what others have found credible and useful but also because your information is so different from mine. :)
The most remarkable study I've seen about pregnancy showed that in in America, the leading cause of death of pregnant women was homicide at the hands of their boyfriend or husband. Here's one source but there are many.
"We found that homicide was the leading cause of death among women who were pregnant ... and accounted for 20% of deaths among that group, compared with 6% of deaths among nonpregnant women of reproductive age," says author Isabelle Horon, DrPH, from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene...
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20010320/number-1-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-murder
Women of color are a part of that statistic as are all of their male and female babies.
I find a need to bring up sexism in discussions of racism because they are both forms of supremacy in which the entitled experience a kind of mental blindness towards those they oppress even as the bodies pile up around their feet.
Did you know about the danger of being pregnant near a loving male? Probably not... even though it's that large of a problem. My point is that when it comes to racism, people of all colors are trying to tell everyone whom isn't aware that our Black American men are under siege, our Black women suffer in a myriad of other ways and the problems have to stop.
In a literal sense, I agree that "racism" is made up. Yeah, it's a socially constructed and perpetuated - choice. We don't have to be this way. But, if you mean that racism is an invention unrelated to facts, then I refer you to the links I provided and to the agencies I listed for some fact-gathering.
I also agree that a racist mind may inhabit anybody, regardless of pigmentation, but I think that people often confuse the one-on-one experience with institutional racism, which is quite different.
It's my belief that if the shared goal were that everyone be treated fairly, racism and sexism would come to a natural end. (and yes, I do get called "naive" and "rose-colored glasses" and "Pollyanna") LOL
Because these racial topics come up so often, I decided to start adding facts to the threads if I'm going to post. I hate being a hamster on a wheel, so rather than argue opinions, I prefer to post links and to remain open to the information others share. So, please, share your links. :)
I don't think they should have apologized for this film's casting because it's fictional so it only has the parameters the writer gave the story itself. That said, I wasn't in the casting director's office so I don't know if there was a racist agenda going on there and they know it, and that is why they apologized. Or some other reason. I'll take their word for it that they did a racist thing which merited an apology.
ETA: Edited to correct a link.
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slickr12345
8 years ago
Blacks owned blacks. Who do you think sold all those slaves? Black people all over Africa owned black slaves and sold them to Europeans and Americans.
If you go back 300 years before that, most people in Europe were serfs and slaves, they didn't have any rights, they couldn't own property, they didn't have fair trials, they had to pay whatever taxes the ruler said so on his whim, they weren't allowed to speak freely, they weren't allowed to publish books, etc...
Everyone, but the aristocrats and ruling elites were slaves or close to slaves. They didn't have any rights, this started changing with the Magna Carta in England and then slowly over time, over hundreds of years it spread all over Europe. Finally by the time European people weren't abject slaves and serfs, they spread over other continents and before the industrial revolution was in full swing, black slave owners offered to sell black slaves as slave labour.
When the industrial revolution took full swing in Europe and they didn't need slaves they started selling them to the colonies outside of Europe.
Anyways just because blacks were slaves 300 years ago, they shouldn't be treated as special people now!
If they want representation in movies they can first of all finish high school, get into college, finish drama school, work really hard and they'll possibly get a chance to become a movie actor.
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kuntext
8 years ago
slickr - You either misunderstood me or you disrespected my standards. You replied to my saying this with a bunch of unsubstantiated opinion.
Because these racial topics come up so often, I decided to start adding facts to the threads if I'm going to post. I hate being a hamster on a wheel, so rather than argue opinions, I prefer to post links and to remain open to the information others share. So, please, share your links. :)
I'll rephrase -
on matters of fact, I'm only interested in your research on the topic which either supports or refutes the links I posted. Or, new information.
On matters of fact, I am not so enamored with the opinions of others as they are themselves. Why would I give any weight at all? LOL Who cares?
Also, you have undermined anyone's ability to take your points seriously on this by saying this:
blacks were slaves 300 years ago,
Are you using a KKK manual for your "facts"? See what I mean about stating your source so what you are asserting may be verified? It's a standard for a reason.
In my previous post I provided many links and I leave you to them. Please don't reply to me on this topic again without providing your own linked sources. There are others here whom are interested in unsupported opinions so your attention is better placed there.
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slickr12345
8 years ago
Blacks owned slaves and sold them to the Americas. That was almost 300 years ago, if blacks aren't represented enough in movies(they are over 30%, when they only account for 13% of the population) then they should actually finish school and through very hard work try and become an actor.
I'm sure most people would want to become famous actors or singers earning tens of millions of dollars, that can't be the case.
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