All black film "Swing" in 1938..... same era as Bojangles and Stepin Fetchit

[UpAndComing]

Remember, this is the 1930s, where you had 2 of the biggest black artists

Stepin Fetchit

Bojangles


Then you had black people of that time say "Bu bu bu bu bu these stars had to c00n, it was the only way Black people could get on TV!!!! They were pioneers!!"



But somehow you had this movie that no one talks about....







Made by a Black director, who also wrote screenplays and produced

Oscar Micheaux. Breh made 40 + movies

While you had black people writing, directing, and producing content... but somehow that wasn't enough. As the saying goes, "The white man's ice was colder". Why couldn't more black actors care about staring in more all black movies?


If white people don't love it or are not watching it, then Black people don't care. Which is why we go head over heels for Oscar and Grammy nominations, and look down at all black awards`

 

[Ol’Otis]

subs

 

[UpAndComing]

 

[JackRoss]

Never heard of that movie. Good drop OP

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

That’s the guy who directed Cabin In The Sky

Also if I’m not mistaken isnt bojangles Brandy and Ray J cousin?

 

[Wiles]

how many pawgs he got?

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Let's not even discuss issues distribution and potential earning. Nah let's just go into the coli norm of dedicating all of our energy into tearing down black people.

 

[Heafcliffe]

Good looking out, b. Bout to watch.

 

[DA_LURKA]

Ain't that breh they said the Oscars are based off of?

 

[get these nets]

Ain't that breh they said the Oscars are based off of?

You're thinking of Woody Strode, whose physique the oscar statue is supposed to be based on.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Remember, this is the 1930s, where you had 2 of the biggest black artists

Stepin Fetchit

Bojangles


Then you had black people of that time say "Bu bu bu bu bu these stars had to c00n, it was the only way Black people could get on TV!!!! They were pioneers!!"



But somehow you had this movie that no one talks about....







Made by a Black director, who also wrote screenplays and produced

Oscar Micheaux. Breh made 40 + movies

While you had black people writing, directing, and producing content... but somehow that wasn't enough. As the saying goes, "The white man's ice was colder". Why couldn't more black actors care about staring in more all black movies?


If white people don't love it or are not watching it, then Black people don't care. Which is why we go head over heels for Oscar and Grammy nominations, and look down at all black awards`

he had a baaaaaaaaad yella back in the day

 

[get these nets]

he had a baaaaaaaaad yella back in the day

I think that's (white) Jane Russell, chief.

 

[get these nets]

Remember, this is the 1930s, where you had 2 of the biggest black artists

Stepin Fetchit

Bojangles


Then you had black people of that time say "Bu bu bu bu bu these stars had to c00n, it was the only way Black people could get on TV!!!! They were pioneers!!"



But somehow you had this movie that no one talks about....







Made by a Black director, who also wrote screenplays and produced

Oscar Micheaux. Breh made 40 + movies

While you had black people writing, directing, and producing content... but somehow that wasn't enough. As the saying goes, "The white man's ice was colder". Why couldn't more black actors care about staring in more all black movies?


If white people don't love it or are not watching it, then Black people don't care. Which is why we go head over heels for Oscar and Grammy nominations, and look down at all black awards`

Lot more complicated than you might think.
xoxodede posed a great documentary here which discusses Black American film history.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/vin...ure-documentaries.597078/page-4#post-28446211

 

[UpAndComing]

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[Dr. Narcisse]

Lot more complicated than you might think.
xoxodede posed a great documentary here which discusses Black American film history.

Vintage Black American History & Culture Documentaries

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