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[Amazing]

This was a good movie and definitely worth watching.

We need to support Black movies like this and the Color Purple with huge ensemble casts employing Black actors and directors.

I can't believe I was influenced by you bottom of the barrel fags into not watching it.

[iheart4everbrandy]

I watched it but preferred the National Geographic's telling of Aretha's story with Cynthia Erivo

[I. Hate. Monica.]

It was horrendous. Cynthia's mess>>

[Vonc2002]

It wasn't good

[I. Hate. Monica.]

Finally saying something true

[Palladium]

I watched it but preferred the National Geographic's telling of Aretha's story with Cynthia Erivo

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[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

We need to support Black movies like this and the Color Purple with huge ensemble casts employing Black actors and directors.

this part. Which is why I will always love me some Tyler Perry.

King is not perfect but I def remember his movies being out and available, full of Black actors who were getting work... at a time when the whole Black sitcom / movie / UPN trend died down significantly after the early 00's.

We definitely needed him as a bridge between that UPN era and the era we're in today, where it's cool and trendy to produce Black movies and sitcoms again. He put out fucking classics during that period.

And this also includes what some of us refer to as "slave movies"

Slavery (unfortunately) is a huge part of the Black American legacy...I mean, it's why we're here in America.

Having those stories told shouldn't offend us. Obviously it can be triggering to watch so that's understandable but we should never be pushing for those stories not to be told.  Or complaining about those stories being told. Just don't watch.

"When They See Us" was one of the most triggering things I've ever seen in my life - especially as someone who grew up in NYC where the story is staged. Literally painful to watch, infuriating, frustrating, saddening.

I will never watch it again but I understand why it needs to be available and will never complain about its existence.

There's something bigger at hand that matters way more than my discomfort

[RAY7]

The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

If anything keeping these stories out there is teaching people ...new generations .. about the depths of atrocities that our ancestors faced .

Things that are simply not being taught in schools - where American history is sugarcoated for younger generations .

If we want reparations to come at some point it's in our best interest to keep these things on a radar in every way possible - and yes media is a very powerful tool for that .

Other groups of people got their version of reparations by constantly reminding the world of what their ancestors faced and how brutal it was .

Not by saying "Will y'all stop broadcasting this shit 🙄 I'm sick of it!"

Slavery is part of Black American history.

If we stop focusing on that we might as well put in a request people to start brushing BLM era or civil rights/Jim crow era under the rug , or any other eras of history where we faced very tough times .

Like it or not all of it  is connected.
Interwoven . You cannot talk about BLM without talking civil rights / Jim Crow. Can't talk about that without bringing us back to the slavery era .

You just cannot tell our story as a people in this country without going to the root.

Not if you wanna tell it right . It's impossible .

[Buy The Stars✨]

I watched it but preferred the National Geographic's telling of Aretha's story with Cynthia Erivo

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OMG.  so i wasnt a fan of cynthia doing it and i put it off for year but over the summer i reluctantly watched it and was HOOKED.

I HATE when they get these British actors to play real Americans. like when she played harriet tubman. i just dont like it. 

there are so many actors here in America but she slayed.

I also think the mini series benefited from it being like ten, 8 hour episodes or something like that.  there was alot we saw in that but yeah i enjoyed it.

[Vonc2002]

The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

If anything keeping these stories out there is teaching people ...new generations .. about the depths of atrocities that our ancestors faced .

Things that are simply not being taught in schools - where American history is sugarcoated for younger generations .

If we want reparations to come at some point it's in our best interest to keep these things on a radar in every way possible - and yes media is a very powerful tool for that .

Other groups of people got their version of reparations by constantly reminding the world of what their ancestors faced and how brutal it was .

Not by saying "Will y'all stop broadcasting this shit 🙄 I'm sick of it!"

Slavery is part of Black American history.

If we stop focusing on that we might as well put in a request people to start brushing BLM era or civil rights/Jim crow era under the rug , or the any other eras of history where we faced very tough times .

Like it or not all of it  is connected.
Interwoven . You cannot talk about BLM without talking civil rights / Jim Crow. Can't talk about that without bringing us back to the slavery era .

You just cannot tell our story as a people in this country without going to the root.

Not if you wanna tell it right . It's impossible .

I didn't read it all but from what I read,  ur right.  Do yall not see how they trying to dilute our history in this country.  We don't expect world wars to be erased so why would anything else just STOP being talked about   there's a historical white movie released every year too. I never hear ENOUGH of those. 

[Buy The Stars✨]

The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

i agree with this.. i HATE seeing them over and over again.  seeing our ppl beat and sold and called names or even in servitude like the help.  I started feeling that way when that movie the butler came out.  also why does it seem those type of movies get the most release and press and awards and such.

how many times can we see a slave be hung or sold at a damn auction house.

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

i agree with this.. i HATE seeing them over and over again. 

how many times can we see a slave be hung or sold at a damn auction house.

question

how many "slave movies" have come out within the past 5-10 years?

Either I'm clearly missing this massive influx of mainstream movies about slavery

Release after release after release ... just flying over my head ...

Or any time a period piece on Black History comes out which involves slavery, there's complaints and discomfort  about it - so much to the point where things get inflated and exaggerated  .

 

[Vonc2002]

I was JUST about to say. Where are all these slave movies yall go on about? Yall love to claim the slave movies flood the airwaves

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

I was JUST about to say. Where are all these slave movies yall go on about? Yall love to claim the slave movies flood the airwaves

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Some People are just very uncomfortable with that era in our history.

The word "ashamed" comes to mind but I stop short of using it cuz I feel it would be totally unfair considering how dehumanizing it was.

Peoples discomfort is not something that I can't understand , or something that's "bad"...
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I don't expect people to be like "omf so proud of slavery!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🤗 woo hoo! They was in chains yall ☺️ "

But maybe more of us need to be in touch with the possibility that it just makes us uncomfortable.

Which is OK . If any Black American feels discomfort or even "ashamed" they are well within their right to feel that way. It is not their fault. It's the fault of those who made this history as disgusting as it is.

 But maybe just try to understand why it's important these stories are told.