Added: Nov 18, 2008
From: abrowngirl
Duration: 8:15
Video Essay for Black Pop Culture Class
Channel: People
Tags: mammy
Rating: 4.94 (33 ratings) Views: 16923' favoriteCount='64 Comments: 25
MIDNIGHT1DEMO Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Yeah right! They still do it. It's just not as obvious. They even throw a couple white chicks in it to make U say "Well, they dis-respect white chicks too." (Flavor of luv) They are much more slick with their tactics. The WAR on the young black mind still rages on and they seem to be winning (MTV 2). As much as things change, they remain the same. U were right about that.
lalagirl9273 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I didn't say racism is gone. I just said Hollywood perpetuates it.I admit that there are still plenty of racist people(racism is a vice that people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds share) around.What I am saying is that it's not so prevalent in the culture that it's pratically invisible to all but those who suffer from institutionalized racism.If it's that bad then we wouldn't even be allowed to discuss such a grievance to social harmony.
lalagirl9273 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Well I was thinking about creating a fantasy story involving characters of all ethnicities. To be frank I don't care for films that discuss racism or so-called black films.Black films should be as diverse as we are as individuals.I'm a fantasy fan and I would love to see black and other non-white actors in fantasy and sci-fi films for a change.Why does every fantasy story only have white people as main characters.
lalagirl9273 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Norbit just stereotypes Black women has possessive,controlling and sexually unappealing that is why I hate Norbit even my mother hates that movie!
DarqueBeauty Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Should have done what the Jamaicans did. Uprise and kill them off. You can't change people like that...they just breed their hatred through their generations. I wish that O'hara cuntress had slapped me. I wish she would have. I would have been one dead Black woman...but one that died with a smile on her face and a clump of stringy brown hair in her hand. :)
digigirl101 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I wish that white woman would have slaped me! I would been dead in a second for beating the crap outta her!
digigirl101 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - she would have been dead'
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - You don't know what you would have did back in those times, because most of our way of thinking was simply survival. And the fear of being tortuerd would have overwhelmed most of us blacks in those days. Think about it!
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - So do white actors, they do it a lot. Like Milton Beral,Dustin Hoffman. Its called being a good charector actor, going from one phase to another, and you forgot Ving Rigg, in the hit movie Holiday, He was in drag aswell. I think you hate gays, and your forgeting, it is a acting job.
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I think people who just want to play low life stereo type criminals and thug drug dealers and murderers in movies, like these rappers, Young Buck, C_murder. I think that is bad because it represent a false evil mancho images, that brainwash our black kids. Most kids are not going to look at Martin lawrence in drag, and wanna put on a dress! Most kids would just laugh at that, image.
DarqueBeauty Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I have thought about it! I also think about stories that have been passed down in my family about HORRIBLE things done to them because they were defiant (running away, giving lip, sabotaging plantation tools..ect) a great DEAL of them were beaten, killed and maimed (They castrated one of my great great great uncles). I like to think that that spirit runs in me too! So yes, my friend, I HAVE thought about..AND many slaves thought the same way.If EVERYONE was brainwashed Nat Turner wouldn't happen
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - it only bad to play a black thug or ganster when thats the only role they give us blacks. What we need is balance! Those or slice of life, they should all be told good or bad!! I am waiting for Spike Lee or someone to do a Nat Turner Movie, or a Tousaint L overture movie!! Those or great B
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Opps those are Two great black generals! That did not take thee white mans shit!!!
jijilog Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I just wrote to some one on this page about Nat Turner, Well sister its hard to say how are minds would have been developed back in those days. I feel you are speaking from the mine frame your in now, and Nat Turners where a very rare breed, back in those days. The only slaves who reacted like Nat Turner, where usually suicidal slaves. But that was good thing though! We needed them.
DarqueBeauty Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - It's true that I DO have todays mindset, however, I'd like to THINK that maybe I would have run away. However, in all honesty, who's to say. I wish more had been suicidal too. Just look at what Toussaint L'Ouverture did. He upset an ENTIRE nation and in effect forced them to sale Louisiana to the states because it upset their economy so much. That's mind blowing and EXTREMELY satisfying to think of. :)
ralpheboy94 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - mama love the slave master
NubianGoddez Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Its a damn shame back then, we had no choice in roles and still today we have a choice but continue with the jigaboo roles, these mfs need to be killed.
cirethgr8 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I agree with you 100% Goddez. They set themselves and us back by accepting this non-sense. And IMO Tyler Perry is one Pickle Smugglin F***OT !
mack1820 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - lmao!
tashreal Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - This was painful to watch. Thanks for putting this together! Neo-ministrelsy...all the rage.
FinalJusticeMovement Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Interestingly enough, I find a slight discrepancy in this otherwise brilliant account.The character of Rasputia Latimore from "Norbit" was not the stereotypical "mammy", but was more so the stereotypical "large, overbearing Black woman with an attitude".Two things about Rasputia:The only thing that made it worse was the white cake frosting that could have come off as blackface lips.The only thing that validated the character is how it shows that big ladies are just as bad as skinny.--FJ
youlovemeandiknowit Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Wow, this is amazing! Thanks for posting!
toryu123 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - really? way to read too far into it. get a fuckin life, holy shit
cacy03 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - How did you get this footage? And make it into a video?
lalagirl9273 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I think times have changed to a degree and yet remain the same. I admit hollywood has yet renounced the racist imagery propaganda on screen and nor have they ceased to make films belittling and hateful toward black women and black people in general!