I have a dream...
as you all know, today was Dr. Martin Luther King day.
The man who set us all truly free from most oppression. But after watching a episode of the boondocks last night, what do you really think Dr. King would think of our people. I really do mean our people as black people, becuase it doesn't matter how ou got in: because once you're black you can never go back. I mean, this episode really made me wonder would Dr. King think most of our people are trifilin' ass niggas. It's seems like alot of our people are, not excluding myself sometimes. I just wonder why oer the year we have learned in this new freedom to accept becuase commited to becomming our own stereotypes. This makes me think back to when i watched the moved dodgeball. I know alot of people who love this movie. I LOATH THIS MOVIE! the only black person in the whole movie had to speak with ebonics, be materialistic and had slave tendicies. It wasn't even like the movie had a bunch of farces on sterotypes, the people were all normal except for the ghetto black people. Why was he to act like that? if a black person is in a movie, do we have to speak in ebonics and be one huge stero type. point being that movie really pissed me off. but why did it happend? because we as a culture have accpeted this you gotta do what you gotta do approuch to life. i guess, to make it big in the movie industtry and play real charecters we have to first be a sterotype and play mantan for the white folk. this makes me wonder, being a black person who wants to ventrue into "the business" will i have to let go of my convictions and play somebody's dope dealin' baby's daddy? or can i honestly make a living being an actor and not being a sterotype, i mean a real actor not just your james earl jone's of the world. but i wana play real charecters. there is nothing wrong with me playing a "black" characters but something i have seen take it too far. It's been a while since i watched the color purple, i think i am going to do that now.
PS sorry for the inconsitancy of the capatalization. i don't usualy use them unless it's dier in my mind. but tonite, i just did. so there you are. night.
The man who set us all truly free from most oppression. But after watching a episode of the boondocks last night, what do you really think Dr. King would think of our people. I really do mean our people as black people, becuase it doesn't matter how ou got in: because once you're black you can never go back. I mean, this episode really made me wonder would Dr. King think most of our people are trifilin' ass niggas. It's seems like alot of our people are, not excluding myself sometimes. I just wonder why oer the year we have learned in this new freedom to accept becuase commited to becomming our own stereotypes. This makes me think back to when i watched the moved dodgeball. I know alot of people who love this movie. I LOATH THIS MOVIE! the only black person in the whole movie had to speak with ebonics, be materialistic and had slave tendicies. It wasn't even like the movie had a bunch of farces on sterotypes, the people were all normal except for the ghetto black people. Why was he to act like that? if a black person is in a movie, do we have to speak in ebonics and be one huge stero type. point being that movie really pissed me off. but why did it happend? because we as a culture have accpeted this you gotta do what you gotta do approuch to life. i guess, to make it big in the movie industtry and play real charecters we have to first be a sterotype and play mantan for the white folk. this makes me wonder, being a black person who wants to ventrue into "the business" will i have to let go of my convictions and play somebody's dope dealin' baby's daddy? or can i honestly make a living being an actor and not being a sterotype, i mean a real actor not just your james earl jone's of the world. but i wana play real charecters. there is nothing wrong with me playing a "black" characters but something i have seen take it too far. It's been a while since i watched the color purple, i think i am going to do that now.
PS sorry for the inconsitancy of the capatalization. i don't usualy use them unless it's dier in my mind. but tonite, i just did. so there you are. night.