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Lolz.£mchekhov 2: Chek Harder wrote: ↑March 27th, 2019, 8:08 pmif you said hip hop because its predominantly black / the inverse of movies being predominantly white, then you surely understand peeles reasoningprowlercomesaround wrote: ↑March 27th, 2019, 6:28 pmImagine if a white music producer with a track record in let’s say the hip-hop and rap genre suddenly refused to work with black people simply because he’d "heard that music before". The backlash would be immense
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Ever seen a bad analogy? I see one right in front of me.prowlercomesaround wrote: ↑March 27th, 2019, 6:28 pmImagine if a white music producer with a track record in let’s say the hip-hop and rap genre suddenly refused to work with black people simply because he’d "heard that music before". The backlash would be immense
Not criticizing his intentions, just thought it was a very stupid thing to saymchekhov 2: Chek Harder wrote: ↑March 27th, 2019, 8:08 pmif you said hip hop because its predominantly black / the inverse of movies being predominantly white, then you surely understand peeles reasoningprowlercomesaround wrote: ↑March 27th, 2019, 6:28 pmImagine if a white music producer with a track record in let’s say the hip-hop and rap genre suddenly refused to work with black people simply because he’d "heard that music before". The backlash would be immense
There has been years of discrimination towards black people in the film industry, as the result, the history of American cinema has been overwhelmingly white.
No one has stopped white people from becoming successful hip-hop singers, they can always do it if they are good at it and have luck, money or know the right people.
So when Peele says I'm going to do my part to balance things out a little bit because of years of injustice, that sounds reasonable.
But your imaginary white music producer is simply racist, since he's just mad that people of his/her race couldn't do as well as black people despite the circumstances being fair. Get it?
No one has stopped white people from becoming successful hip-hop singers, they can always do it if they are good at it and have luck, money or know the right people.
So when Peele says I'm going to do my part to balance things out a little bit because of years of injustice, that sounds reasonable.
But your imaginary white music producer is simply racist, since he's just mad that people of his/her race couldn't do as well as black people despite the circumstances being fair. Get it?
Huh. Is that an attempt to throw a jab at Larson?£
If only he would’ve said that instead of “I don’t see myself casting X in a leading role because of X’s skin colour”. And particularly the “I’ve seen that movie” line borders on generalization.Master Virgo wrote: ↑March 28th, 2019, 3:37 amThere has been years of discrimination towards black people in the film industry, as the result, the history of American cinema has been overwhelmingly white.
No one has stopped white people from becoming successful hip-hop singers, they can always do it if they are good at it and have luck, money or know the right people.
So when Peele says I'm going to do my part to balance things out a little bit because of years of injustice, that sounds reasonable.
But your imaginary white music producer is simply racist, since he's just mad that people of his/her race couldn't do as well as black people despite the circumstances being fair. Get it?
I fully understand that he’s not saying these things with ill intent but wants to cast more black people in starring roles. Not disagreeing with that at all as I said in my previous post. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Black people should be able to play leads in films without it being race related.
That's the thing, you can't divorce race from this conversation period. It's going to play a role no matter what, so acting as though this isn't our reality is just disingenuous.prowlercomesaround wrote: ↑March 28th, 2019, 4:11 amI guess what I’m trying to say is that Black people should be able to play leads in films without it being race related.
All Peele is saying is that we've seen white guy movies 95% for the last 120 years. It's time for more diverse voices to be heard. How isn't that all positive?
-Vader
^ Definitely positive, and correct me if I’m not understanding you here, but what if a director wants to cast black leads in a movie that isn’t about race?
