Posted on 01/20/2015 10:48:09 AM PST by Pelham
On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America?
Selma, a film focused on the police clubbing of civil rights marchers led by Dr. King at Selma bridge in March of 1965, is being denounced by Democrats as a cinematic slander against the president who passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In the movie, King is portrayed as decisive and heroic, LBJ as devious and dilatory. And no member of the Selma cast has been nominated for an Academy Award. All 20 of the actors and actresses nominated are white.
Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, says Rev. Al Sharpton, the higher up you go the whiter it gets.
Even before the Selma dustup, the hacking of Sony Pictures had unearthed emails between studio chief Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin yukking it up over President Obama's reputed preference for films like Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave and The Butler.
"Racism in Hollywood!" ran the headlines.
Pascal went to Rev. Sharpton to seek absolution, which could prove expensive. Following a 90-minute meeting, Al tweeted that he had had a "very pointed and blunt exchange" with Pascal, that her emails reveal a "cultural blindness," that Hollywood has to change, and that Pascal has "committed to this."
These cultural-social spatsLBJ loyalists vs. the Selma folks, Sharpton vs. Hollywoodare tiffs within the liberal encampment, and matters of amusement in Middle America.
More serious have been the months-long protests against police, following the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner on Staten Island, some of which have featured chants like, "What do we want? Dead Cops!"
The protests climaxed with the execution in Bedford-Stuyvesant of two NYPD cops by a career criminal taking revenge for Garner and Brown.
Race relations today seem in some ways more poisonous
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Hahahaha...it couldn’t be that the actor bites, the role sucks, or the movie is a POS.
Must be racism.
It was this line I was referring to.
Cultural blindness that Hollywood has to change.
If it's shocking to discover what the honchos at Sony think of black people, just think of the audience boycott if conservatives and Christians knew what Hollywood really said and thought about them...
The acting must be atrocious for Ethan Hawke (for Boyhood) to receive a best actor award over anyone in that cast.
For far too many in America racism is a business. This is 2015 not 1968 and anyone over the age of fifty should understand what that means. As long as there are race pimps and race hustlers and movies and money to be made on ‘’racism’’, as long as there are college degrees given and university chairs in ‘’African-American History’’ and “Understanding White Privilege’’ or what-ever-have-you there will be ‘’racism’’. I for one am beyond fed up with this nonsense.
The anti war people won out over the anti race people. LBJ is a monster for escalating Vietnam and you don't want to portray a person like that in any positive light even if you have to lie to do it.
My little sister invited me to watch a movie she raved about called “The Help”.
At first, as I watched, I was very angry at the white people in the movie, who were portrayed as comical, arrogant, nasty white stereotypes of southern women. They were very cruel to the “saintly” black women who worked for them as domestics.
But then, one of the “help” baked her own feces in a pie and gave it to her employer to eat.
As we all know, this could have actually killed somebody with e-coli or some other toxin.
Yet, the movie treated this evil, heinous deed as some kind of heroic, revolutionary act.
I was REALLY offended by that.
It’s been a really big deal on local LA talk radio. Company town and all that.
You could be onto something there.
I think wardaddy could tell us something interesting about the movie ‘The Help’.
Republicans passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, despite a massive effort by Democrats to vote down the act. LBJ signed it. As someone else pointed out, the anti-war Democrats can't allow LBJ or Republicans to get any credit for its passage. Congress makes laws. Until recently the only power the POTUS has was to veto legislation. The Dems have warped the legislative process out of shape for too long.
There is something that bothers me about that movie...I liked the concept originally, but when I starting thinking about it, something turned me off.
Pat has seriously understated the actual results of the "Civil Rights" Movements' success. The seven times ratio that he refers to, must be compared to the 3 times ratio that existed in the American South, during the first half of the 20th Century. The movement has done terrible damage to the American Negro community, replacing self-respect & personal responsibility, with a grievance mentality & an ever increasing look to Government--not personal achievement--as the answer to every problem.
The fact that the mainstream media fails to really report the social & community malaise, demonstrates their neurotic attachment to egalitarian theories, but exposes their actual indifference to those they pretend to care about. It is a disgusting combination of arrogance, stupidity & hypocrisy. With "friends" like that, Black America truly does have an albatross around the neck.
POTD.
Maybe people are sick of being called racist all day, Al. How many more ways does whitey need to be guilted? Maybe the movie just stunk. I won’t waste my time or money on that. It appears the only people seeing it are receiving free tickets. BUT, I predict it shall be show to every school child in perpetuity during indoctrination month. For historical accuracy students will also watch “Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” to round it out.
What happened in Selma was important. But the movie is crap and not important.
As long as you realize that the Republicans who led that effort were the very liberal Rockefeller wing. They voted right in step with Mondale, McCarthy and McGovern. They’d make today’s RINOs look like the tea party.
They despised conservatives and refused to support Goldwater in 1964.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78
I thought this movie was JUST released? How can it be nominated until the end of the year?
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