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(Reblogged from dearkidsshows)
My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black casts at all. White people are 12 year old wizards, teens with crushes on vampires and werewolves, fighting blue people, talking fish and toys, and yet the best we get is a movie about the genteel south? Someone please make a movie about two black folks falling in love at a rock concert or a feature film about Storm from X-Men discovering her power, or something, ANYTHING, that goes beyond Black Pain (TM) / White Saviour (TM) movies. Sheesh.
A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools)
The thing is, Hollywood wouldn’t keep producing films like this if there weren’t a demand for it. The Af. Am. cast went above and beyond to remind the audience that, contrary to popular belief, African Americans ARE human beings. African Americans DO have a culture. African Americans ARE more than colonized beings, and can read an write too. Don’t think that people didn’t hear some elders gasp when they found out that Abeeline could write well. (Really, this happened.)
