12 "YEARS A SLAVE" OCTOBER 18

A LIFE TIME OF OPPRESSION

12 years as a slave, based on a true story, but then aren't they all said to be? Why is it, we continue to make movies such as this, but can't talk openly about slavery and 90 percent of the world don't want to hear about it unless it's a major movie event with some of your biggest named stars, mainly white. Because the black ones you never heard of nor will again and the few that you have heard of will always be over shadow by the whites. What good have ever come out of these kinds of movies?  Example: Hollywood funds a thirty million dollar movie about taking down one of the biggest bank jobs ever dreamed of hitting.  Hi-tech, explosives, the works, with some of the biggest names in the business co-starring, a year or so latter someone attempt to pull off, in detail what they saw in that movie.  Not once have anyone tried to understand us as a race or show compassion/ repentance for what their ancestors done to us, not a one after watching one of these movie.  So what do we get out of these type of movies other than employment, for its the only time you will ever see a host of blacks in a white mans production is when we are the subject of being humiliated, disgrace and a reminder to them or to validate what they have always believed, that they are superior..

Time and time again we produce these kinds of movies and for whom to enjoy? Do you think that those of us who have a strong sense of pride and knowledge of what white Americas has done to our race and still trying to under mind the significant of it as, that was so long ago and it's over now.  Like fools, little do they know, they are still entertaining the whites, because in their eye that is all we are good for.  Therefore they are the one's that enjoy watching these kinds of movies along with their simple minded African Americans whom they renamed once again, are still suffering from slave syndrome.  These are the kind of movies that they will pay to watch like going to a concert where they get to hear the blacks screaming nigga for the thousands time.  But make a movie with a black cast like Spike Lee and see how many white people you see in the audience, excluding the bi racial pretend not to be a racist.  The bottom line, if they are afraid to make black history a part of the schools curriculum because of what will come out of it like the truth, then there's no reason to continue making these kind of movies based on true events that have no value in humanity when it's just for entertainment purposes only, because it sure in hell isn't educational.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                   KANYE WEST ("LEAVES")

The Hidden Meaning Behind Kanye West's VMA Performance

Kanye West's silouette in front of a stylized image of the Lynching Tree on Sunday

(Photo: WireImage)

Kanye West's performance at the MTV Video Music Awards may have been bare bones in its presentation, but the song itself — and the deceptively simple imagery that accompanied it — had a lot more to it than viewers may have realized.  "Blood on the Leaves" samples Nina Simone's cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," which describes Southern slavery and the lynching of African Americans. It's certainly not a song that inspires a live presentation featuring seizure-inducing lights or pyrotechnics; instead, West performed in silhouette in front of a projected still image of "Lynching Tree," a photograph taken by "Shame" filmmaker Steve McQueen.

The tree, which is located somewhere near New Orleans, was once a gallows for slaves and now serves as a marker for several lynched victims buried underneath it. The piece is currently on display at the Schaulager Museum in Basel, Switzerland.

The image is tied to Steve McQueen's new film, "12 Years a Slave," which tells the story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. The film, which co-stars Michael Fassbender as a cruel plantation owner and Brad Pitt as a Canadian abolitionist who befriends Northop, opens on October 18.

STRANGE FRUIT

 

 

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