Posted on 12/18/2023 1:50:39 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Watch out Harry Potter for there is another secret society of wizards roaming around but unlike you and your British kin, these folks are American… and Black.
Focus Features released the first trailer for Kobi Libii-directed film The American Society of Magical Negroes starring Justice Smith and we must say, it looks like a helluva concept to bring to make into a movie. Centering around an everyday man named Aren (Smith) who tries to navigate his life around a white man’s world, he’s recruited to a secret society of Black magicians whose main purpose is to make white peoples lives easier and more comfortable in society. No, seriously.
As it is explained to him by one of his teachers (David Alan Grier) white people are the most “dangerous animal on the planet” whenever they feel “uncomfortable.” No lies detected there. In order to keep the Black community safe from white rage, the magicians do what they can to keep the white community feeling at peace in America.
Now that he’s in the loop, Aren is tasked to use his newfound magic to make a particular white man happier with his life in his workplace, but things go awry when said white man and Aren both develop feelings for the same woman. Having to choose between upholding his Magical Negro oath or finding love, Aren finds himself in quite the pickle as everything The American Society of Magical Negroes hinges on what he chooses to do. Keep the white man happy or make himself happy.
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I am so tired of this racism promoting crap.
Same. And then some.
Nice tagline.
RLTW
This is the most racists, offensive garbage I have ever seen. Not remotely funny. It will engender even more racial hate in this country, if possible.
I saw the trailer the other day.
If the world wasn’t so pathetically woke, this might be a funny piece about race relations...and if taken in a humorous light, it can help people laugh at themselves.
The problem with folks these days is that they are so wound up with animosity, it’ll be used by some blacks (maybe even the makers of the movie) as an anti-white diatribe and by some whites as a “you hate us!” screed.
I remember when men of all colors could sit around a table and laugh at themselves and each other and get along. May we be able to do that again soon.
The title should be GRUMPY OLD WHITE MEN.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Try this one on for size:
Black people are animals.
Not only that, but black people are the most dangerous animals on the planet.
Acceptable? or should I be cancelled?
“If the world wasn’t so pathetically woke, this might be a funny piece about race relations...and if taken in a humorous light, it can help people laugh at themselves.”
Blazing Saddles was a funny piece about race relations. Try making a remake of THAT ONE today.
RLTW
I stop reading whenever I encounter a lower cased White, and an upper cased black.
FWIW, David Alan Grier was in a movie years ago called “Amazon Women on the Moon”, it was kind of a “Kentucky Fried Movie” re-hash. Imagine sitting at home and flipping through your cable channels.
Grier was in a featurette that was one of those “K-Tel Greatest Hits Album” for a fictional singer called “Don ‘No Soul’ Simmons”, a black guy who sang gentle, purebread white music. Very funny stuff.
Anyway, the skit was making fun of “black people” who had no “soul”. This was in the late 1980s.
Good at making things disappear?
Barbecue watermelon
Cadillac car
We’re not as dumb
As you think
We is!
I see what you mean. Started reading The article, than stopped because of that.
Disgusting.
I think Rush would be laughing at this.
speaking of grumpy old white men, has anyone else noticed how much biden looks like Jeff dunham’s Walter? even down to the squinty eyes?
Umm...NO!
I can’t think of a single place a black person could go that would be dangerous because of White folks.......the reverse however
A whole society of Obamas?
I am honestly surprised that the plot revolves around two men who are interested in the same woman ...
In the late 1980s, we were still America.
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