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Originally Posted by Guest
Disney won't release my favorite Disney production "Song of the South because of the grandfatherly black guy that tells the tale
I loved the old guy and still do .
Corporations are only interested in the bottom line.
I resent their attempt to control and manipulate.
Historic figures, places and events fit their times and should be viewed as people of their times.
To do otherwise is either out of ignorance or hypocrisy
The attempts now to wipe out our past are hypocritical and misdirected.
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The wiping out of OUR past is what happens when we become the minority. The majority rules because they elect those who govern over us. Get used to more and more of "them" being the important ones. It's already happening...in movies, on TV...the minorities are taking on the leadership roles...with whites serving them.
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Originally Posted by Guest
Well, it is perhaps understandable why a theater in Memphis, Tennessee, (The Orpheum) would decide not to screen Gone With The Wind. The decision, made by their Board, was probably influenced by the fact that the city is populated 62% by Blacks. Undisclosed to us is the probability that the Board was threatened with boycotts, marches, demonstrations, and riots.
Since the death of Walt Disney and the ouster of his brother Roy Disney from the Board of Directors of the Disney Corporation, Disney has been politically correct. The refusal to release Song of The South is disgusting.
One of the things that I really like about Turner Classic Movies is that every movie they run is complete, uncut and uncensored. I'll admit that I sometimes cringe when I see Black actors in stereotyped rolls about the Black experience back in the 1940s and before.
But, I also remember that Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind. Other Black actors of that era were beloved in both Black and White households, based upon their movie roles and radio appearances.
Among these were Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Butterfly McQueen, Louise Beavers (Beulah), Dooley Wilson (Casablanca), the Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) and many others who found themselves "typecast" in stereotypical Black roles, but appreciated the financial independence they gained from having the opportunity to entertain others.
One can only assume that the Orpheum board would find Roots objectionable, although it is based upon a book by a Black author who discloses the dark evil of slavery in America from the perspective of an enslaved people.
Censorship stinks.
Carl in Tampa
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Gee ya think? It's like playing Roots in an all white southern town.
Propaganda...it's all propaganda.
If you want to see the REAL blacks...you MUST go to where they live...the inner cities...the MLK Blvds. There you will find "people" who are NOTHING like us. People who HATE you because of what you are...leaps and bounds above them...in every regard minus a few sports...where strength and aggression count.
Come on...Roots is full of BS propaganda. It's full of STORIES. It's like the Bible NT...written MANY years after the fact...embellished, sensationalized...to keep people interested. It's literary license...it's expected.
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Originally Posted by Guest
just a guess but this sounds like Gracie to me! i too think "anonymity" brings out the worst in us...although someone on here always knows that i am chachacha...i would love to meet Personal Best Regards as his posts always make the most sense to me...i feel what is happening in our country now is mass hysteria and no one is trying to stop it!! very dangerous!
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What is happening...what has happened is...minorities have become the majority...and from here on out...THEY will get their way. Cities are more and more becoming a minority majority and they are electing their own as office holders...as mayors...as councilmen. A sanctuary city IS a sanctuary city because it's a minority majority city. America becoming a minority majority IS VERY dangerous. It WILL lead to it's downfall. There are NO successful minority run countries...not one...we will NOT be the exception.