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Comment on Black Feminist and The Help…. a comment on Black Women sterotypes by Nourbese

Nourbese — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:34:57 +0000

I talk to my granny about this film…. our family is from Georgia and while it’s no Mississippi, I just wanted to get her perspective…. she hadn’t seen the film probably won’t till in comes on on demand or dvd, but she said kind of like what Yves’ mom said that it was accurate to a degree… and I guess what really angered me about this film is the degree it was wrong not right… this by no stretch of the imagination is our story, our story in jim crow south was full of lynching, assassinations, rape and survival… there’s no sassy black women backing their employers special pies ( don’t want to blow the movie for the people who haven’t seen it so I’ll just leave it at special) and lived to tell about… our churches where not only for our salvation but for organizing against jim crow, providing financial support to folks who need extra… ect. This movie was straight up coonery to me… a white women’s glorification of how one spunky white girl can save all the poor maids from themselves… by using their stories to make herself famous.. If this was suppose to be a fictional representation of black maids in the south, then why make it so stereotypical black mammy that the opening scene starts with Viola saying you’s kind, you’s smart, you’s important… which by the way I saw it with a mostly white audience… and they were for sure laughing at us and not with us during that scene…in addition this movie once again turning dark skin black women in to asexual beings not having lover or husbands.. just here to raise family and magically have children … .and if this movie was suppose to be a movie based on jim crow or reality, this was a disgusting representation of the trails and tribulations of black women and men in Mississippi, this is not from”the helps perspective” and this wasn’t too long ago to ask the perspective of women who actually lived this life, if Kathryn Stockett’s ( writer of the help, the book) wanted to get that perspective she could of… and the dagger on why I’m so mad about this particular film… is that this is the first time I’ve seen a cast of dark skin black women, playing the main roles on the big screen in my life and we are reduce to saying such lovely phrases at umm umm..I sure does love me some fried chicken…and making up a rhyme about crisco cooking grease and how it could be used to do everything including make your man’s feet soft… Eve Adams, luv, I do agree that we need our story told… but when people change the truth and make it all neat and pretty, it’s worst than not saying anything at all because people think that this IS the truth… and then use these untrues truth as a reason to not create proper laws to protect against the real truth and history from repeating itself… this movie, like other ahistorical films of the sort, I see as straight up dangerous… and we need to figure out how to start telling our truths… hint hint Terell Johnson don’t you feel like making a movie … I have ranted enough…thanks for commenting folks…. back to saving the planet :0)

Comment on Shop Talk; The Salon Edition, Are Black Women too bitter to marry? by Jonh

Jonh — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:29:13 +0000

I agree with Albert. You at least have to give a man a shot. When i was coming to age i tried very hard to get the attention of the ladies. It didn’t work well. I was a well hard working religious nerd and the women didn’t want that in a man. Matter of fact, the men who got the most play were dogs! There was more encouraging to become a dog so that i could at least get a chance with a woman than to stay a hard working religious man. Eventually i figured that women only wanted a dog, and if you wanted to give them something better than they faught back. So i acted like a dog for awhile. Until i got sick of being a dog and black women in general. Eventually i kinda found one who doesn’t treat me like a dog(ironically, i no longer act like one) and i married her. I have ‘stepped it up” as the young lady prior said, and give her everything she can ever ask for. She will never have to work a day in her life. What i’m trying to say here is, “If you treat men like dogs, that is all you will get, dogs.” Treat a man like he is special and he will give you something special.

Comment on Shop Talk; The Salon Edition, Are Black Women too bitter to marry? by Nefertari

Nefertari — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:08:01 +0000

I think the title of this article is insulting, and I think the fact this question is even posed is ridiculous. Black women have been uplifting our communities since slavery and for sistas to place the blame of black men abandoning their families and their women for themselves and others show our lack of self-esteem and a weakness we have never had before.
Black women are not bitter, I think brothas are not strong enough. Many of the things these women say are true, very true, and consistently true. The fact that we state the consistent obvious does not make us bitter, but honest.
I do not think all black men are bad, but not many of them are good, or even men; just look at our families, and you will see this to be so.
They have their reason and hardships, it is true, but so do black women, but we still take care of our families, after all the phrase single black mother is more common than single black father.
I hope black people can wake up and start loving one another other, but ladies know your worth, keep fighting the good fight. It isn’t your fault if brothas aren’t man enough to know a woman when he sees her. Like Pac said, keep ya head up.

Comment on Shop Talk; The Salon Edition, Are Black Women too bitter to marry? by Nefertari

Nefertari — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:08:01 +0000

Comment on Successful Black women less likely to get married by South Africa

South Africa — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:34:23 +0000

Therefore, when men and women attended theatres a difference of opinion arose. South Africa

Comment on Successful Black women less likely to get married by South Africa

South Africa — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:34:23 +0000

Therefore, when men and women attended theatres a difference of opinion arose. South Africa

Comment on Money Well Spent- This Week’s Classic Pick by Joel Bridgeman

Joel Bridgeman — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:46:14 +0000

I was just listening to this on my way to work this morning! Truly a classic.

Comment on Money Well Spent- This Week’s Classic Pick by Joel Bridgeman

Joel Bridgeman — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:46:14 +0000

I was just listening to this on my way to work this morning! Truly a classic.

Comment on Faulty Report Card by Connie Wright

Connie Wright — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:14:41 +0000

Extremely thoughtful and well written article. A bit short-sighted, though. The “Joe the Plumber” types at the Townhall meetings on Health Care are recruited, indoctrinated and paid for by the Health Care Industry, Big Pharma, and The Oil Industry, whose petroleum produces most of the substances used to create new “medicines” (read that prescription drugs). Face it, children, with a new, efficient, pre-emptive, preventive health care plan, and system in place and working, Big Pharm and her sisters stand to loose googobs of money. Billions, and billions. If people start looking out for their own health, questioning the poisons in the food, air and water, and trying to mitigate their effects, what will become of big oil, big chemicals, big insurance…starting to see the pattern here, folks. The RACE ISSUE is by-and-large a red herring. It is something to keep people distracted, because we as a culture/society have always been easily distracted when it comes to issues of race, because those issues always include the visceral: sex, miscegenation, inter-marriage, moving into someone’s neighborhood, integration of schools, RACEMIXING. That same red herring has been used to raise and maintain barriers which are then used to keep everybody in the middle DOWN. Does anyone out there know that indentured servitude was for everybody Britain wanted to get rid of and was not based on skin color or race? Race-based slavery was not codified until wholesale chattel slavery became a large and profitable transatlantic business proposition, and the brokers and financiers decided to enact legislation to protect their financial interests.

I could go on ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Children, it has always been about money – who’s got it, and who’s going to keep it and control it.

But keep observing, keep thinking, but don’t forget your past, and if you don’t know it, study it. THERE’S your power and the tool to change the future.

Read history, even obscure, boring history – because everything you need to know is there. The one thing the white man (read that Europeans) will always do is write it down. They have done, and will continue to write down a record of everything they have done to you, and everything they are getting ready to do to you.

That is why they are so afraid of education. They assume that if you are educated, you will read and figure out the game plan.

Study the past. Did you know that A. Lincoln set up and financed a trial re-colonization of African slaves on a tiny isle in the Caribbean? Some 400+ souls, plantation slaves, many of them domestics who had never done field labor, nearly all of whom perished in the harsh swampy, mosquito-infested surroundings? The plan was not to free the slaves, but to get rid of them as free labor among Central American fruit plantations? Not in your textbooks?
Why is old stuff important? Because just at the end of the 19th century, Encyclopedias routinely supplied in this nation’s public libraries proudly told the stories and named the names of those American “entrepreneurs” who exploited and abused the aboriginals of Central America, undercutting governments and replacing them with their own -hand-picked regimes.

If old Abe had had his way, there, but for the Grace of God, would go many current African Americans.