Paul Essien
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Most people who go to the movies are white people then white people must be responding to an already held impression of black people. Right ?Black movies are usually about two things: slavery, or thug life.
Dammit man! He'll spin so hard he might create a black hole!
- Boyz N The Hood
- Django Unchained
- New Jack City
- Juice
- American Gangster
- Rosewood
- Amistad
- Hustle & Flow
- All About The Benjamins
- The Help
- In The Heat Of The Night
- Menace II Society
- Set It Off
- Baby Boy
- Dead Presidents
- Poetic Justice
- Four Brothers
- 8 Mile
- In Too Deep
- South Central
- Colors
- Fresh
- Do The Right Thing
- Straight Outta Compton
- American Me
- Clockers
- Crooklyn
- Friday
The images of blacks as gangstas, pimps, dealers and “hos” wouldn’t resonate nearly so much as to make possible billions of dollars of sales annually. So white people need to consider that the thug image has been marketable and created a financial incentive for black actors to play to that image
If white people were interested in seeing black films about black history (That's not about black people getting there asses kicked for two and half hours) and about black history and black achievements, radical social transformation, community uplift (and yes there are many, many black films out there like that)
Then that’s the films that would be churned out in larger numbers.
But white people aren’t looking to watch films about black people being the fathers of Science, the Fathers of Maths, the fathers of Civilization, nor are white people looking to watch films about overthrowing the system from which they benefit.
No. White people would rather films about black people that 100% involved guns and drugs, and being a thug
So it's white film-goers who make these kind of films profitable. But instead of asking for any responsibility from them, you blame the actors for doing what they’re supposed to do in a capitalist system, which is respond to market demand, no matter the social consequences.