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Originally posted by AKA2D '91:
I posted this from a thought I had from the Baby Boy thread.
Many there said they would NOT see the movie unless it came on TV, etc. This statement and others like it, has been posted before regarding OTHER movies, television shows, etc.
So, If "we" are all "down" to support OUR OWN, then doesn't it mean JUST THAT? Regardless of the business, venue, etc. Isn't John Singleton OUR OWN? Maya Angelou (referring to Down in the Delta)? That movie was a flop at the box office. Spike Lee and his movies? (and many countless others out there) If "we" really supported OUR OWN, then those and other "black" movies would be box office HITS!
I don't understand how one can say, yeah, I'm down, all I support is US, when that ISN'T really so.
My thing is, if you are going to profess something, be about it 110%.
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Ok, I see what you are trying to say...
First off, I think that only a small number of black people feel obligated to support their own. Just look at the responses on this thread. Keeping that in mind, don't you think that the same ethic applies to the general public? The majority of blacks do not make a conscious effort to support their own. Just because a few people here say they do doesn't mean there is a large group of people that feel the same way. How can you tell the people here that they don't support their own 110%?? If they say they do then all anyone else can do is accept that. There are just not enough blacks that feel as strongly as them and that's the reasons why so many black projects fail.
Secondly, I guess no one ever mentioned that sometimes you
shouldn't support black movies, music, and entertainment. I will not spend money or time on anything that does not depict my people well. We are not all single parent, ghetto dwelling, welfare collecting, slang spitting, womanizing, drug using, gun toting, hopeless, helpless, and hellish people. We are not all Sambo's, Uncle Tom's, and Aunt Sarah's. I will
not support anything that portrays us as such.
I would have seen 'Bamboozled' but it was only in the movies here for a week. It was gone before I could get a day off. But keep in mind that many movies that 'flop' at the box office make up for it when they are available for rental. Besides, I buy anything Maya writes. I have all of Terry McMillion's books as well. I say if you paid to rent "Waiting to Exhale', saw it at the theater, or bought then book you supported her.