What happens when Disney spends $250 million on an affirmative action director to take a beloved work of a white fantasy writer and turn it into an exercise of black power on film?
You get a bomb - pieced together with every politically correct trope imaginable - of hilarious proportions. [‘Black Panther’ Rules 4th Frame With $41M+; ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ At $34M: A Diversity & Disney Dominant Weekend, Deadline, 3-10-18]:
Despite A Wrinkle in Time posting a softer opening in comparison to its huge $100M-plus production cost, Disney isn’t crying: They easily own the top two spots at the box office, plus it’s a major breakthrough for two films which boast positive messages of diversity.
A black director was allowed to make a black power fantasy - appropriated from the work of a white author about a white heroine - to the tune of $250 million from Disney. And it bombed...
What A Wrinkle in Time has to look forward to are rolling spring breaks in hopes of luring families in. On Monday, 18% K-12 are out and 37% colleges; those figures will spike over Easter weekend with Good Friday seeing 79% K-12 out and 43% colleges. Even though A Wrinkle in Time had a marketing campaign which sought to hook a diverse moviegoing crowd, African American and Hispanic crowds turned out respectively at 18% and 14% along with 54% Caucasian per ComScore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. Compare this to Black Panther‘s first weekend which pulled in 37% African American, 36% Caucasian and 17% Hispanic. Arguably, Black Panther is stealing away a good bulk A Wrinkle in Time‘s audience, however, if the exit scores on the female family movie were higher, its chances of overindexing would be higher.
Rival studio executives would like nothing more than to gaze on Disney’s humanity at the B.O. this weekend, having buzzed that a $30M-ish start for A Wrinkle in Time just doesn’t cut it profit-wise with regard to this $100M-plus production (a $40M-plus start would put this pic at a better end-game stateside which is where it needs to make most of its money). With combined estimated $250M P&A and production costs film finance sources do not see A Wrinkle in Time breaking even, but given the lack of family product in the U.S./Canada marketplace, there’s a chance it gets to $100M-$120M.Black Panther is not a diverse film; it's a black film, with a few token white faces tossed in. A Wrinkle in Time was a book by a white woman about a white heroine, which Disney allowed to be reimagined by a black supremacist who turned it into a black power fantasy.
And the movie bombed, even though the black power director spent every waking hour praising her work as a 'love letter' to black girls everywhere (though she was appropriating a piece of white culture to fulfill her vision of blackness Disney foolishly funded).
She was explicit in the $250 million being nothing more than the fulfillment of a black power fantasy for black girls and girls of color. [Ava DuVernay calls 'A Wrinkle in Time' a 'love letter' to black girls everywhere:"A Wrinkle in Time' is a story for young people; it’s for kids, and it’s for the kid inside of us.", NBC News, 3-7-18]:
Director Ava DuVernay is exploring new territory and making history with a film adaptation of the beloved children’s book, “A Wrinkle in Time.”
She is the first woman of color to direct a $100 million film, which hits theaters on Friday. The blockbuster movie’s multicultural cast includes actresses Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.
DuVernay sat down with NBCBLK in Los Angeles to discuss the importance of making the film and how it can make a positive impact on young girls and boys, especially children of color.
[This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.]NBCBLK: WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO THE STORY?AVA DUVERNAY: A black girl as the hero attracted me to the story of “A Wrinkle in Time.” When Disney told me this film could be made and that I could cast it the way I wanted to, I said, “Could Meg Murry be a black girl?” They said, “Yes.” I said: “Well, you got a deal. I will come and make that movie.” I’m glad I did. It’s a love letter to our girls.WHAT WERE SOME OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECTS OF DIRECTING THIS MOVIE?AVA DUVERNAY: I don’t think of it as challenging because every day was a joy. It was like, "black girl magic." Every day I showed up, and there’s Oprah, there’s Gugu, there’s Storm, and me. And all the people who rallied around us, the Maori people in New Zealand.
We were in the Sequoias [National Park in California] and with people up North in the Bay Area. We also shot in the Baldwin Crenshaw District in Los Angeles. The school that Meg Murry attends is Crenshaw High School. We shot in the Adams District in a historic black neighborhood [in Los Angeles]. We were able to bring all these things to the film and Disney was game for it, so those weren’t challenges, they were blessings.
CAN YOU SHARE SOME INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT THE MAKING OF “A WRINKLE IN TIME”?AVA DUVERNAY:The making of it was powered by the crew that we had. I made sure that the majority of our department heads were people of color and women, that we had parity between Caucasian men department heads and people of color and women department heads.
We had people who were doing hair, makeup, costumes, script supervision, stunts and props, and all those people reflect the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have a woman director, a black person at the helm, if everyone else making the film is not like Meg. And that’s why it’s so important to be inclusive — that’s how you get something that feels different.WHAT ARE SOME OF THE EMPOWERMENT THEMES THAT YOU WANT THE LITTLE GIRLS TO WALK AWAY WITH FROM “A WRINKLE IN TIME"?AVA DUVERNAY: I want black girls and little girls of all colors to see themselves as the hero. In this film, Meg is the leader of her crew. She’s got her little brother, Charles Wallace, who’s in her ear. She’s got her friend, Calvin, who’s in her ear. But they’re in her ear because they’re asking her, “Meg, what do we do?” She’s the leader. She says, “Do you trust me?” He says, “I trust you,” and she says, “Well then, come on!” And he follows her, and this is a little white boy. That’s a powerful image for white boys to see. Hopefully, this will plant seeds with this generation.Sorry Ava, but your black girl magic must have been left in Wakanda.
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Boycott Hollyweird. In other words, don’t feed the animals.
Speaking of time travel, I wish I could go back in time and pay the slave ships to stay away from American ports. Ninety five percent of southerners never owned a slave, but 100% of American whites have reaped the detrimental reward (curse) of having blacks in the country. The scant amount of farm help they gave was not worth the curse of having them in great numbers in our country. Whoever gave them the vote was a fool!
Please note that even with six decades of de-segregation, affirmative action, open housing, black "studies" programs, worship of the cult of MLK, the groveling of DWLs from sea to shining sea, and the rest of the civil rites, Africans in America still need "positive role models" in the movies to get them to function in White civilization. Of course, "function" isn't quite the word to use here, given black rates of illegitimacy, crime, school trashing, welfare dependency and etcetera.
I want black girls and little girls of all colors to see themselves as the hero.
OK, let's see how this pays off. Will black girls now stop producing children out of wedlock? Will they start studying hard in school? Will they refuse to participate in flashmobs? Will they have their menfolk stop the gangbanging? Shall we see black girls flocking to NASA to show the way to the stars? How about they clean up Baltimore or Detroit and try to get some tax revenue back into those urban deadzones?
But we know what will happen:
Lights, camera, cue the black cat and reset the BlackMatrix.
If only they'd called it "MARVEL'S A Wrinkle In Time" ...
With blacks, everything is fantasy.
Wakanda.
And they take over white roles.
Consider HAMILTON where Founding Fathers are brothas.
Blacks are thieves.
It's not enough for them to steal things.
They also steal history and culture.
The problem of their stupid 'culture' overtaking all aspects of western culture is very concerning. Film, music, even literature. At the library on the bestseller table, now MANY books with black authors (I.e. Ti Nisi Coats) -are stacked. Who even reads that junk?
Aren't you already? They're doing just fine without you all.
Oh! Because 1/18th of their movies was black! 🤣🤣🤣
Slave trade was 100% about profit and loss. "scant help" is quite the objective observation. I guess you can't trust history either, the winning side that wrote it is the anti slave group, huh?
"Despite A Wrinkle in Time posting a softer opening in comparison to its huge $100M-plus production cost, Disney isn’t crying"
It's not even about the money at this point. (((Disney's))) fellow tribe members own the printing presses and there's enough other friendly corporations that'll use these shitty propaganda pieces to market junk food or whatever else and pay royalties to these franchises to help shore up the books.
I'm positive I read this book at one point and it certainly wasn't memorable in my mind so if YKW wants to re-do it in blackface I'm not terribly hurt. I'll continue to not watch this shit and I refuse to buy products that use black Africans in their advertising. Most recently I'm switching my heat over to propane and everybody raves about the Rinnai brand heater. Went into a local shop asking and they pass me a brochure with some smiling gollliwog on the front. "No thanks, I'm looking for a heater made for white people" and walked. I did a little networking and found a friend of a friend who is a builder who can get some other high quality heaters at cost
It is important to be vocal about this sort of thing. I think a silent majority is absolutely sick of this but are going along to get along for fear of losing social status or being chided and branded with the scarlet R. Read the comments (where they're still allowed) in any news site or other forum and they make the posters here seem tolerant by comparison. There is a storm brewing.
OT: Harriet Tubman statue put up in Baltimore in place of Robert E Lee statue they took down. The comments are great.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/baltimore-rededicates-former-confederate-memorial-212813976.html#comments
The Wikipedia page on this article notes that, as of today (Monday, March 12), the film has grossed, worldwide, $39.6 million on a budget of $100 million. It also notes that "With a combined $250 million spent on production and advertisement, the film will need to gross at least $400 million worldwide to turn a profit." Good luck with that!
Either Hollywood is a producer of poor movies that are guaranteed to lose money, or they're doing this for reasons other than making a profit.
Also, why it is that anytime there's any YT involvement in anything black, it's derided as "cultural appropriation" (aka cultural theft), but putting blacks into YT's world is wonderful and no one dares to utter a comment, except to flatter it?
Lesson learned: What's theirs is theirs; what's ours is ripe for the taking.
Consider HAMILTON where Founding Fathers are brothas.
Why not make an opera about the founding fathers of Haiti? Or Liberia? Or Zimbabwe?
I can see it now. To get the full experience, the theater restrooms would replace flush toilets with open air latrines. The concessions bar would serve mud cookies instead of popcorn and overpriced carbonate beverages. The price of tickets would be inflated by 1000% between each performance. And drama critics would be cut to pieces with pangas.
Thus, the enlightened theatergoer could participate in the full black majority rule experience.
I wish ppl knew just how dangerous that company really is. Having worked there many years I have a very clear understanding of what they're end game is.
Anonymous D-FENS said... Boycott Hollyweird
--who goes to the movies? not us.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/03/06/teen-charged-with-bringing-homemade-bomb-to-utah-school/
isis 'inspired' him...no name as to who this is.
I would not trust any reviewer who has to take a jab at Donald Trump's "divisiveness" (when Obama was the real divider)considering that Trump has nothing to do with the movie being reviewed.
Don't even know how Hollywierd is staying afloat. (((They))) are losing insane amounts of money.
I'll bet everything I own that "creative accounting" and fraud are the two things preventing the inevitable.
Blogger Andrea Daley said...
With blacks, everything is fantasy.
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When the reality is that their low IQ and high irrationality, fantasy is all they have left.
Wakanda.
And they take over white roles.
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They may "take over" white roles, but they never, ever achieve the heights of white artistry. Name ONE black actor or actress whom you might equate with Lawrence Olivier, Bette Davis or Garbo. Hell, I've yet to see one make the ranks of Marjorie Main.
Consider HAMILTON where Founding Fathers are brothas.
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Hamilton was a SJW sham. It was all about destroying the fact that white men built this country....period. The End.
Blacks are thieves.
****True dat!
It's not enough for them to steal things.
They also steal history and culture.
*****
Well, yeah. But what you're missing is the (((folks))) who are pushing them to steal something they cannot ever appreciate or even understand. These same (((folks))) have been actively destroying white history and culture from the moment their feet first set foot in any white country. Even Christ lost his patience with them, throwing them out of the temple.
(((They))) are experts at funding foot soldiers (negroes, Muslims, Mexicans, etc.) to actively invade functioning white societies. It's what they do. It's who they are.
We fought on the wrong side of both world wars. In fact, the wars probably never should have been fought. If Hitler wanted to run roughshod over Poland, those p*ssies should have had the b*lls to resist. Dresden, Germany was annihilated and millions of innocent Germans killed due to the fact that Hitler wanted the (((tribe))) out of his country. He saw the writing on the wall when (((they))) boycotted German owned business in 1933.
The myth of racial equality has been shoved down the throats of every single white child since the fifties. Each and every white student has either willingly or unwillingly been fed the propaganda that every black man is Sidney Portier and every black woman is Dianne Carroll.
Our job is to survive. Make no mistake. What you see in South Africa and Venezuela is coming here. Educate yourselves, your family, and arm up. The latest attempt at a gun grab points to the fact that they are upping the ante.
This is no dress rehearsal, folks. If he has done nothing else for us, Trump brought us a few years time. Use it wisely.
And in a few years it will be mandatory to watch this in the reeducation camps comrade . Because after Trump orders the confiscation of all semi-autos that he has repeatedly called for though out his life. (the latest is his PUBLIC support for the Feinstein bill) That will be EXACTLLY where every white child in America is going. That or the oven.--Ray
"It was like, "black girl magic." Every day I showed up, and there’s Oprah, there’s Gugu, there’s Storm, and me. And all the people who rallied around us, the Maori people in New Zealand. We were in the Sequoias [National Park in California] and with people up North in the Bay Area. We also shot in the Baldwin Crenshaw District in Los Angeles. The school that Meg Murry attends is Crenshaw High School. We shot in the Adams District in a historic black neighborhood..."
Again, the Wakandans do some filming in LA, but who in their right mind would go to film in da Muddaland? Note that the "black girl magic" doesn't include Reese Witherspoon being in on the magical hijinks!
"We had people who were doing hair, makeup, costumes, script supervision, stunts and props, and all those people reflect the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have a woman director, a black person at the helm, if everyone else making the film is not like Meg. And that’s why it’s so important to be inclusive — that’s how you get something that feels different".
And in reflecting the real world when everyone went home and all was wrapped up I we know whose areas were safer, more dangerous, dirtier, had more squalor. And in letting the ape-beasts run amuck and not hold them account you sure wind up with something that feels different (from a decent society).
Looks like Oprah could have used a little of that Black Panther crowdfunding. Will we ever know the true scale of it?
And they take over white roles.
Consider HAMILTON where Founding Fathers are brothas.
Hamilton taps into the same part of the liberal brain as Wakanda.
Most liberals on the ground (not politicians or profs) truly believe that Hamilton could have just as easily been a pygmy or aboriginal if not for White people suppressing everyone and ruining history. Hamilton not only spins a paint theory fantasy of America being founded by Blacks but it also has a rap theme which lets White liberals patronize negro music. There is also the historical aspect which lets White liberals promote themselves as valuing education.
Hamilton is basically crack cocaine for liberals. This is why it sells out so fast in coastal cities.
I much prefer black movies to co-opting white movies and race-changing characters. I don't care if blacks do their own thing. I want them to do their own thing. It's really at the behest of Jews and white cucks that they racially appropriate white characters when we all know that blacks would have a fit if whites took black characters or did blackface. No, ancient Egyptians and Carthaginians don't count because they were not black so STFU.
Non-whites taking white characters is an example of race replacement and an act of genocide especially when it becomes common practice as it is now.
PK: to which address do you send a money order?
Paul Kersey Fund
The VDare Foundation
P.O. Box 527
Oakton, VA 22124
or
Paul Kersey Fund
The VDare Foundation
P.O. Box 211
Litchfield CT, 06759
( I missed the opportunity to comment back when there was a debate, again, about Lincoln and the reason(s) for the Civil War. Here is my response to a comment left by another):
A @ 8:42 above:
"...contradicts what Lincoln himself said..."
What Lincoln SAID or didn't say is irrelevant to the REASON(S) for the Civil War. He can say anything he wants, but what really happened, before, during and after the war, is what we must use in dealing with History.
Nothing anybody "said" is valid. What was done, and the written documents themselves, are more accurate since we can read them ourselves.
And since when can an "economist" not write about facts in other areas? That is really closed minded and stupid. I am sure NONE of us here have a Phd in "Sociology", "Negro Studies", etc, of even, may I say, History?, yet we all here write the truth....
I personally have read numerous places where Lincoln wrote, and gave speeches, stating over and over that the issue of Slavery was not the issue. Tariffs, and his childlike love of the "UNION" drove him. He was a politician, first, and was beholden to those who financed his campaign.....just like today.
As I've said before, blacks are utterly hypocritical and it's always a one way street with them. They operate on a double standard- whatever you do that they don't like is horrible, racist, evil and unfair but if they do the same thing, it's alright because they're black and there's always a justification, reason and excuse for it. If you do it, it must be condemned. If they do it, it must be celebrated.
For example, blacks moving into and displacing whites from their neighborhoods (block busting)is perfectly fine and something to gloat over but if whites move into a black neighborhood (that was formerly white) and start displacing them (gentrification), that's evil and they'll wail about how unfair it is. If they have a negative impact on your neighborhood, that's just too damn bad, honky, but if you have a negative impact on theirs, it's monstrous! How dare you! Another example is how blacks will howl (in a majority white city) that they're not being represented and don't occupy enough positions of authority and don't get hired for jobs in every department. However, when they take over a city and it becomes predominantly black, all of the sudden all the talk of fair play, inclusion and so forth goes out the window and other races are excluded. That exclusion is celebrated and the city gloated over as a "chocolate city." Reverse it and the cries of discrimination, bigotry, racism, intolerance and lack of inclusiveness will be screeched from every rooftop. Just think of the story about the town in Georgia where a black became the chief of police and fired all the white cops and had them escorted out of the building with snipers on the roof covering their expulsion. If a white became chief of police and did the same to black cops in a police station, there'd be black riots in the streets, lawsuits and all the attendant shrieks of racism, bigotry etc.
As per this article, let a movie studio take a story about black people written by a black person and transform all the characters into white characters and the howls of racism, theft, cultural appropriation and disrespect would be deafening. I suggest a remake of the movie "Cooley High" about a black high school and neighborhood. Then, let blacks know that the now all white movie is based on that and there'd be protests in front of the theaters showing it as well as numerous articles condemning the theft and "white-washing" of the story. Or remake "Shaft" with a white in the lead role. Even though he's a fictional character and blacks don't think that replacing the fictional James Bond character with a black person is wrong, replacing Shaft with a white person would cause a total meltdown. Blacks would be shrieking, "Aw hell no!" and throwing fits over it.
Like I said, a one way street, double standards and hypocrisy.
PK,
A bit off topic, but still applicable, "5 of the Most Violent Cities in the WORLD Are Right Here in America". The author does not touch the obvious "elephant-in-the-room" factor in these cities, and one, maybe 2 of the posted comments are on target.
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/5-violent-cities-world-america/
The "negro" became a "wrinkle" on societies ass many years ago...
Obviously Disney didn't do a good enough job of marketing this as a "black empowerment" film to get the ball rolling on raising funds (from white people, of course) to buy tickets for underprivileged minority kids. Maybe in the future they can set up a page on the film's promotional site where DWL's can make donations directly to the studio to improve their bottom line by putting (black) butts in the theater seats courtesy of someone else.
Once again blacks appropriate white culture, and try to own it. Maybe the failure is because white are saying "No, this is ours, you can't have it".
Try making your own black promoting movies. You have Spike Lee's company, Oprah's fortune, and all those mega talented rap millionaires to write it. Oh, wait, whiteys gots to pay.
All I was ever taught was to NOT see color. All blacks ever do is see color. 24 hours a day (because I believe they dream color) 365 days a year it’s color, color, color. I can’t forget that you are black, because you keep reminding me. Bad behavior and ignorance aside, I see black every time I look at you. Nothing that blacks do, makes me see anything else. Tiring.
I was chased home from school everyday by a black girl and her shakedown posse. They saw themselves as heroes. Kinda like Robin Hood. They stole money from me and gave it to the poor (themselves). These are your heroine type black girls.
Im a bit confused here. Does the little black girl discover Wakanda?
In the year 1800 there were 1 million blacks in America and in 1900 there were 8.8 million and in 2000 there were 34 million. Now (2015) there are roughly 43 million. If this keeps up there might be over one hundred million. There are one billion waiting in Africa. Not only do we need a fence we will need new immigration laws and a coast guard willing to sink boats from Africa.
BTW; The Sub-Saharan African population is expected to double within 30 years.
ot: OK, OK!!! Dems, we get it!! There was interference by foreigners in our last election...let's now STOP IT!!
Task One: Secure Voter IDs, like Mexico's IFE cards.
You only vote if a confirmed citizen. Pretty basic.
Top of the list, OK?
Send money order (leave the "to" portion blank) to:
Paul Kersey
P.O. Box 527
Oakton, VA 22124
I personally have read numerous places where Lincoln wrote, and gave speeches, stating over and over that the issue of Slavery was not the issue. Tariffs, and his childlike love of the "UNION" drove him.
He was also driven by his own ego and fooled everyone around him into believing he was on some holy crusade to save the country.
He arrogantly underestimated the strength of the South and thought it would be over in a year or two. Instead of admitting he was wrong and seeking peace he sent more troops to war. The union may have won but the cost was horrific.
I don't think he cared about Whites or Blacks. I think he just wanted to be in the history book as the President that saved the Union. Which he of course achieved.
I'm not convinced any politician cares about Whites when they so quickly send thousands of 18 year olds to bloody and needless deaths. That includes just about every President since Wilson. Trump is probably the first President in over 100 years that doesn't view young Whites outside the upper class as expendable.
In the future I don't think Lincoln will be seen as a great president. Eventually Whites will accept the reality of race and view Lincoln as a destroyer that didn't act in the best interest of White society. He is only viewed as great today because of egalitarians. They of course don't mention his politically incorrect quotes on race or that he supported the Liberia plan. In the future Shockley will be viewed a greater figure than Lincoln. People will look back at Lincoln as a warmonger and wonder why so many Whites volunteered for him.
You're an idiot. He was referring to Marvels proclivity to change White Characters Black. It happens in every single one of their movies. And not just them. Others do it too. Go glow somewhere else Clown
After reading the comments, Isreal Cohen Quote come to mind! If you're not familiar with his quote see below.
"We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries have been oppressed by the Whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party ... In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the Whites, we will instill in the Whites, a guilt complex for the exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."
Willie from Naperville
Calling what Coates "writes" is far too polite. Maybe the terms word salad and dribble will do.Ive seen paranoid schizoprenic schizoprenics' writings which made more sense.
Begging for Cedula cards (National I.D.'s) like those in Latin America will only further tighten the grip of the States' hands around the necks of ordinary Americans. Freedom means living without State intrusion into one's life. A National ID, with all the police state biometrics etc required, will sink the average American deeper into an already far overblown intrusion. Begging for it plays right into authorities hands. It's like begging to be locked up. There is always another way.
"BTW; The Sub-Saharan African population is expected to double within 30 years."
I think the black population is increasing more like bacteria in a petri dish and birth rate far exceeds death rate (even in chiCONGO)
"They also steal history and culture."
Let's face reality about what blacks do! They do not, and cannot, do what they do alone! The are, at EVERY turn, aided by Quisling White race traitors and THOSE traitors must be dealt with first when the time comes or it will never change.
A bunch of us should get together and reenact black movies and put them all over the internet. The Colour Purple with an all White cast. Raisin in The Sun with a bunch of honkeys, Boys in the Hood set in West Virginia, etc. I think that would be a whole lot of fun!
Oh, I'm sorry, I should make that figure more accurate - 1.25/18 blackened.... What a world, what a world...
You should have finished by comparing your stats with the decline of the white population.
Anonymous s said...
"They also steal history and culture."
Let's face reality about what blacks do! They do not, and cannot, do what they do alone! The are, at EVERY turn, aided by Quisling White race traitors and THOSE traitors must be dealt with first when the time comes or it will never change.
YES- you can't tell me blacks don't know that without YT backing them up, their status would be way way lower than it is now.
Blogger belajadevotchka2 said...
A bunch of us should get together and reenact black movies
But where oh where would we find a dumbed down director to participate??
Anonymous 9:39 pmsaid...
Speaking of time travel, I wish I could go back in time and pay the slave ships to stay away from American ports. Ninety five percent of southerners never owned a slave, but 100% of American whites have reaped the detrimental reward (curse) of having blacks in the country.
When I tell fellow whites this statistic, only 5 % of YT owned slaves, they usually are stunned. That means 95% of whites DIDN'T have slaves. And considering how many whites came here AFTER slavery, from Europe and elsewhere, probably less than 1% of whites walking around today are related to former slaveowners. That means 99% of us are being harassed for NOTHING. We need to DEMAND that this statistic be taught in schools. A lot of blacks seem to think that here in the South, EVERY white person sat on the porch drinking sweet tea and bourbon while the slaves did all the work.
Not even near the truth. But the current educational materials do not contradict this belief, adding to the sense of outrage and entitlement todays blacks feel.
I want black girls and little girls of all colors to see themselves as the hero.
OK, let's see how this pays off. Will black girls now stop producing children out of wedlock? Will they start studying hard in school? Will they refuse to participate in flashmobs? Will they have their menfolk stop the gangbanging? Shall we see black girls flocking to NASA to show the way to the stars? How about they clean up Baltimore or Detroit and try to get some tax revenue back into those urban deadzones?
But we know what will happen...
Indeed. NEVER any return on investment with this group. WHY keep investing/throwing good money after bad?? Some disease could have cured by now with the amount of money thrown away for NO results....
L in Atl hell
former miss greenbaum, dont let the two worst human beings of their time escape their involvement for ww2. churchill and fdr.
The problem was that the original book was Christian
It might have been transposable into something racially neutral without vitiating it, but they excised the heart and lungs and put it on a machine that failed.
The problem is that the diversity destroyed the spirit (literally) much as objecting to color to reduce it to (hopefully less than 50) shades of gray and turning a pungent, spicy, entree into something with less flavor than oatmeal, even if you have some kind of lucky charms style shaped oatmeal bits, just becomes bland and unappetizing.
The correct approach is to create a ladder of classics, the first as the most approachable, then leading to where they will want to read the Aneid, the Illiad, and the Odyssey, Le Morte d'Arthur, and all of Shakespeare and Gothe.
Aesthetic athleticism.
Let me perhaps clarify things on the Christianity.
Imagine "Chronicles of Narnia" where everyone including Edmund gets a gift from whatever they replace Father Christmas with.
Imagine if Aslan is an ordinary Lion and they somehow rewrite the Stone Table to be something more like Thor's Rangnarok so no sacrifice and death would be involved.
I can and can't. I can to the extent that it would be turned into something boring and vapid, and I can't to the extent of thinking of any way to transpose it to any paradigm that would make it interesting.
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