Actor urges 'Cold Mountain' boycott, claims slavery ignored

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1.27.04 | Bob Longino

[Restorer]

Looks like you beat me to it. You got more detail in to.

[albee]

"...He is the son of former Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-Oakland, and attorney Roscoe Dellums.",

Hey, he's from Oakland which is right across the bay from San Francisco.

What do you expect?

[stainlessbanner]

Nice work, you two. Let no lie go unspoken for.

[Restorer]

to = too.

[suzyq5558]

I heard about this boycott on FOX this morning. one word:ridiculous.
so now any movie about the civil war era is out unless it addresses the slavery issue? when will this madness end?
when did the whiners and snivelers and victims take over public discourse? iam so tired of hearing about all this stuff anymore and it gets to where i do not listen nor suffer this foolishness lightly.

[TexasCajun]

Geez.... Don't these People ever get tired of whining and portraying themselves be the victim of Whitey! I get so tired of hearing this crap!

[bmwcyle]

claiming it's a Civil War film that fails to address the issue of slavery

I saw the movie and it was part of the movie. It was a short part but it was there.

[EggsAckley]

O. I. C. How very cute of her.

NOT!

[carton253]

That's uncalled for. I'm not saying that at all.

I am not calling him ignorant. I am holding him responsible for constructing a screed that criticizes a movie because it wasn't historically correct. Yet, the events at the trench, as he writes them, are not accurate at all. All he had to do was a simple search on Google, and he would have found that out.

That's all.

[Restorer]

See, we're not ALWAYS on opposite sides. :)

[yankeedame]

He is the son of former Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-Oakland, and attorney Roscoe Dellums.

Huh?

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LOL!! Well....yeah...er...maybe he was one of those "alternative live-style" babies.

[KellyAdmirer]

My reaction to the film before hearing any criticism like this was that a) it wasn't that good one way or the other, being a lame remake of "Gone With The Wind", b) that in fact the almost complete absence of Black characters WAS weird, and c) that it definitely wasn't worthy of all the hype. I'm actually glad it didn't get a nomination for Best Picture, it didn't deserve it, though I though Zellwegger did a fantastic job.

I did notice some Black soldiers in the opening battle scene, btw, one of the few places - the others being generic shots of slaves in the field, and some stragglers Inman encounters on the road who promptlly (apparently) get shot. Oh, and the drugged slave the preacher character was going to throw off the cliff. I did - on my own - feel that Blacks were badly portrayed in the picture, they certainly weren't portrayed nobly or anything but as real outsiders to the central characters' existence. Then again, there are no laws saying that Blacks must have screen time or lines or be portrayed with dignity or whatever.

That said, I don't see where a call for a boycott has a leg to stand on. The movie is no more about African Americans than is "Something's Gotta Give."

[RunningJoke]

When do you think people will read history and realize the Civil War was started over taxes and not slavery? The Emancipation Proclamation was made in attempt to cripple the South's war time economy. The border states that stayed loyal to the union were exempt from the proclamation.

Oh I forgot, the Ken Burns' version of history clearly states it was a war about slavery.

It was taxes on exports that caused the war. The South was predominant exporter. The North had inferior goods (no export). The South would buy superior goods from England, which caused much pain to the northern industries. "For the contest on the part of the North is now undisguisedly for empire. The question of Slavery is thrown to the winds. This is hardly any concession in its favor that the South could ask which the North would refuse, provided only that the seceding States would re-enter the Union.... Away with the pretense on the North to dignify its cause with the name of freedom to the slave!" --British Periodical 1862

[Corin Stormhands]

People who lived there were "white trash" hillbillies, who couldn't afford to own slaves.

As has been pointed out, that's an incorrect statement. Being poor or being a hillbilly does not equate with being "white trash."

You are correct tho, that if there are no slaves mentioned in the book, there's no need to put them in the movie just to be PC.

[yankeedame]

Don't these People ever get tired of whining and portraying themselves be the victim of Whitey!...

Why should they? After all "Follow the money."

[Ditto]

He is the son of former Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-Oakland, and attorney Roscoe Dellums.

If he's Ron Dellums son, it all becomes clear. This isn't about black and white, it's about RED.

[Landru]

"That's uncalled for. I'm not saying that at all."

Of course you weren't "saying that."
I'd thought your "making you look ignorant" statement rather charitable, in fact.
Especially when in reality there's no "appearence" of ignorancence, a'tall.
The moron confirmed it.

As for the person questioning the obvious?

...can we say *baiting*?

[varina davis]

Well said.