Posted on 01/17/2015 1:42:53 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Why don’t blacks create products that appeal to a larger audience?
I mean, I watched “About Last Night” and it was largely targe targeted at the black segment, definitely not whites.
It’s overtones and intramural type jokes made the movie uninteresting. Only reason I watched was because Paula Patton was in it.
I would hit that and ask Laz to tag in.
Blacks don’t care about appealing to the larger audience.
Except for Denzel, Halle Barry, Terry Crews they largely ignore everyone else and there fine with it.
To wit: Kevin Hart when interviewed by “The Hollywood Reporter” summed it thusly:
“He doesn’t dwell on prejudice, or wonder if he might have had more opportunity if he were white. “That’s not for me to say, because I’m not white,” he says.
He agrees with his mentor, Top Five co-star Rock, who lambasted the industry’s insistence that African-American performers “cross over” and find a white audience in a recent essay for THR. Hart insists he doesn’t get hung up on such things. (Said Rock: “If we’re going to just be honest and count dollars and seats and not look at skin color, Kevin Hart is the biggest comedian in the world. If Kevin Hart is playing 40,000 seats in a night and Jon Stewart is playing 3,000, the fact that Jon Stewart’s 3,000 are white means Kevin has to cross over? That makes no sense.”)
“The point he was making was very valid,” says Hart. “It’s always about us crossing over. You never hear about it going the other way. You look at concerts and the touring industry, and the people who buy those tickets are urban crowds. It’s crazy the numbers I’ve done on tour: You’re talking about a guy who does 40,000 to 50,000 people a weekend. What he said, I agree with 110 percent.”
Still, he continues: “I don’t feed into the race game. I don’t give it that much thought. I never have and never will.”
So, they have a very thin slice of the American film goer they appeal to and that goes for rap and comedy as well.
They play to their “Always a Home Run” demographic, which has some appreciation for coarse and base humor.
I don’t find it interesting but, I’m not that demo.
Now, why don’t we hear them sniveling that there aren’t enough blacks in sports?
Is it because they own the fields? I can’t think of any white players currently playing that are extraordinary standouts.
And last years Heisman nominees was dominated by blacks, save for one white kid and I don’t know that he should have been nominated.
Face it A-holes “You made it off the plantation”.
Now get to work and make something of yourselves, your families and itty bitty culture.
Get back to me when you stop speaking in tongues, Ebonics and a Ghetto Slang.
I can’t understand what the hell you are saying...
On the language front...
Lets take Revrunt Sharpton fo Exsample
he very nearly singlehandedly Invented Amos N Andy-Bonix///
as far as I know...I coined the term many moons ago
Of the top 100 actors of all time, only 8 are black. And one of them is Don Cheadle.
So how is it a surprise that some years, no blacks will make the list of the 5 best actors for one year?
I read that only 13% of the characters in movie/TV are black (which of course nearly matches the population, but it is seen as a “problem”). So that means again that it is a reasonable expectation that the top 5 might not include a black person.
Unless of course they want special treatment for minorities, like that you have to nominate at least one black person in either the male or female lead category each year, even if they don’t deserve it.
I just checked the IMDB list of the top 100 actresses of all time, and none of them are black.
I had trouble listing 10 black actresses, and felt bad until I did a google search, and found that even black web sites had to throw a bunch of no-name actresses, or singers who did a couple of movies (like Whitney Houston) just to fill out a top 25 list.
I didn’t even remember Whoopie Goldberg, who doesn’t appear in any of the lists I found. I think the black lists on the black web sites are mostly “hot women”, not “good actresses”.
You don’t know?
Well, it’s because so intelligent, so erudite she just had to hyphenate her identity....
So you’ll know...
There is already an entire award ceremony just for blacks, so they have that covered.
Only if he was going to stand in as a target.......
no one would have considered this fiasco a FIrestorm untii Revrunt Sharpton smelled the money.
Few Id bet would even have noticed “it”.
I wonder if someone wrote a screenplay.....with revrunt sharpton in mind...casting him...as himself...if he would dare take the part...eve for BIG MONEY???
I just read a piece which stated among other things.. that
“Al Sharpton could find racial tension in a rainbow.”
woop there it be
be great fun to get with these folks and sing some good old negro work songs.
Nice! Let’s send Sheila Jackson Lee with him to Mars to hunt that flag the astronauts left behind...
Revrunt Charlatan... Sheila Jackson Lee ....Barbara Lee and Hank Tipping Guam Johnson....
what a GROUP!!
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