Posted on 03/24/2002 1:25:38 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Any unwarranted shenannigans by the media should be called out, and I appreciate your expertise here.
I am kind of a semi-serious 'shutterbug', and love all your photos that I've seen . . .
Let's be real- some don't want Blacks to succeed and never have. Now that doesn't have to hold any Black person back and I'd never tell another Black person that they can't because they're Black. I will tell them that some feel they can't because they're Black. A world of difference between the two if you're astute enough to get it (I'm not sure you are).
Reminds me of that song: "You-You-You-You-You . . . .I wanna talk about ME!"
I gotta move on -- Didn't even watch the d*mn Oscars.
Research has shown that men that were deeply in love with their wives (as Paul was~) need to marry and do not do well being alone.
GROW-UP! He did not start seeing HM until 2+ years after linda's death
Well, what you need to tell them is the truth, that black leadership will tell them they cant accomplish without extra help. I see that since your perception is that since I disagree with your race-based politics that I dont get it Right out of the liberal tenants of argumentation and debate lol. I'LL GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR ONE THING...AT LEAST YOU ADMITTED THAT YOU'RE NOT CONSERVATIVE. Unfortunately, you will continue the same old tired policies of current black leadership (race preferences, race baiting, looking to govt for help)
Who says I'm going to do that? You really don't get it- you insist on projecting what you want to hear and what you want to believe. You operate out of a limited, narrow-minded perspective. You don't get it.
Whoopi (I usually like her) entered with great promise. It was funny. But her jokes petered out - that one about the "Smiths" - maybe funny in the 1970's? Rest of the show pretty bad for jokes. I didn't watch the whole show but recall that Nathan Laine was the only one who had actual funny jokes - the one about frozen walt Disney was good. And Woody Allen - he was good, had a purpose (unlike everyone else) but I felt uncomfortable when he started talking about sex, a "foot fetishist" no less.
Halle Berry? She deserved the award, I think people should give her a break. Denzel? I guess... but did anyone here see that movie? It was awful - and awful compared to the bunch of other awful movies nominated for an award.
The only thing good about the movies this year were their filming, scenery, effects - these were the expressions of artistic talent.
It's true what some say, however expressed, that the awards overall were overwhelmingly narcissistic and phony. It was Hollywood's reminder that it and its profits are more important than world events, and that Hollywood "cares" about people. It began with the cult-like speech of Tom Cruse telling us that movies are relevant. The highlight was Julia Roberts statement before she announced an award - was it "isn't life great" -- or something. What a dis to the other nominees. Bring back Rob Lowe and Snow White.
Neither would most Black Americans, myself definitely included. Still, I am Black and so is Halle.
Well I guess it must have confused people to hear Halle running on and on about her accomplishment as a "black" actress when the camera kept flashing back to Halle's WHITE MOTHER sitting in the audience.LOL!
Of course the idea that anyone who is part black and part white must be classified as black... follows the white racist mentality that to have ANY non-white blood corrupts your racial purity..therefore you cannot be white.
It's a racist and bigoted tradition which unfortunately many blacks are carrying on.
In any case the truth remains that Halle is half black and half white. The white half won the Oscar.
Research also shows that single men live shorter lives than married men, but married men are more willing to die. LOL
Who said anything about Blacks struggling for recognition? I already have my BA degree and job- Halle's win is unlikely to make me do anything I haven't already done in life.
Halle said something about "blacks struggling for recognition"........in fact she seemed satisfied to be nothing more than a token for black recognition at the Oscars. That's all she talked about.
"It reminds me of something I read about wealthy black atheletes, who somehow still cannot see themselves as part of the upper "rich" class of Americans. This seems to indicate that these sort of black inferiority complexes are not rooted in being oppressed or deprived at all...but rather just being black."
What these athletes understand is that they can be upper class all they want but they're still Black. That doesn't have to be a bad thing but it ain't gonna change history.
What does HISTORY have to do with it?
Bill Gates went from being a nerd to the richest man in the world.
Should he sit around thinking...I am not "upper class" because my history is that I was just a nerd...?
I don't think so!
If I were a rich black athelete...I think I'de say screw history, and everybody else who is hung up on it..
"This is wrong. You should like yourself and being black just as whites like themselves and like being white."
You don't know me that well do you? If any black person on FR likes themselves and likes being Black I do. My being glad that a Black actress finally won a best actress Oscar sure doesn't cancel that out and if you think it does you have a lot to learn.
Actually I was talking about the black atheletes who are multi-millionaires yet admittedly still cannot see themselves as part of the "upper class". That was the context of my comment.
I wasn't talking about you specifically.
If you have the good sense to like yourself, including your heritage and race...regardless of history or the views of others...then I say good for you.
And I tend to believe you... since FR isn't a place where I expect you would find the PC treatment of race issues...and the white liberal condescending and patronizing treatment of blacks. (gag)
I'de say you probably have to have a pretty well balanced and secure self image to handle to FR style of dealing with these issues.
In any case I've enjoyed your posts.
Yes it too often is.
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