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When black rappers make songs and music videos about life in the ghetto, mumbling incoherently, shooting other black people, poverty and dissing black women etc my basic response to that is to get depressed and/or ambivalent.
When black painters paint murals of cops viciously assaulting unarmed teenagers I am not inspired or moved to change anything.
When black filmmakers and actors portray black characters as down and out pimps, dumb athletes, drug dealers, or goofy white sidekicks for comic relief rather than nuanced and complex human beings with diverse backgrounds and perspectives I feel like throwing my remote through the TV screen and saying "fukk it" with black movies.
Notice a pattern? When artists make art it should give you hope, inspiration, motivation, and upliftment. It should display the best of life and human potential. That is what's most vital about it. Black art is unique in that it mostly shows black people in subservient positions or as victims of circumstance.
The standard response by the "keep it real" crowd is this is "how shyt is". Maybe. But not how it should be.
For all the bad-talking and critiques here on Black Panther, it was the first movie in recent memory to completely reject any and all negative stereotypes about black people AND also present an uplifted vision of Africa. I think that's what drew people the most about it. That resonated with people on a deeper level.
Art is about what could and should be, not about depravity and degeneracy and the worst possible examples the artists can come up with.
This is precisely what we don't need.
We can do better.
When black painters paint murals of cops viciously assaulting unarmed teenagers I am not inspired or moved to change anything.
When black filmmakers and actors portray black characters as down and out pimps, dumb athletes, drug dealers, or goofy white sidekicks for comic relief rather than nuanced and complex human beings with diverse backgrounds and perspectives I feel like throwing my remote through the TV screen and saying "fukk it" with black movies.
Notice a pattern? When artists make art it should give you hope, inspiration, motivation, and upliftment. It should display the best of life and human potential. That is what's most vital about it. Black art is unique in that it mostly shows black people in subservient positions or as victims of circumstance.
The standard response by the "keep it real" crowd is this is "how shyt is". Maybe. But not how it should be.
For all the bad-talking and critiques here on Black Panther, it was the first movie in recent memory to completely reject any and all negative stereotypes about black people AND also present an uplifted vision of Africa. I think that's what drew people the most about it. That resonated with people on a deeper level.
Art is about what could and should be, not about depravity and degeneracy and the worst possible examples the artists can come up with.
This is precisely what we don't need.
We can do better.
