Just watched the Madam CJ Walker series on Netflix

[humminbird]

They intentionally make these so that they can’t be showed in school. That agenda.

 

[TEH]

nikka what the fck is you talking bout you fcking clown get my dck off from down your throat you fcking lame fakkit

Don’t get angry with me Sir, save that for your boyfriend.

 

[Guess Who]

All of the characters in this show are one-dimensional. We can do better than this shyt. It’s just lazy, predictable, flat storytelling.

Plus there’s no reason to make characters gay as an artistic decision if they weren’t gay in real life. This series just screams pandering to women and LGBTQ. And I’m a huge LGBTQ advocate but...you can’t rewrite REAL people’s identities for no reason.

 

[SlimeyLilDude]

Don’t get angry with me Sir, save that for your boyfriend.

Fck you you fcking dck sucking ball licking fakkit. Won't none of y'all c00ns/cacs say shyt about that cracker that stole from the McDonald's Brothers but y'all wanna nitpick a successful wealthy black woman. Hating ass lames

 

[13473]

If Kasi Lemmons hands is in it, expect some bullshyt.

She did the Harriet Movie too

i haven't watched the sseries to know the colorism discussed, but when i googled the woman from the trailer who said the colorist stuff it turned out she sold bleaching products too so i wasn't doubting that part happened

people are complex. she did some good tho in other areas based on her bio Annie Malone: First African American Millionairess (Educator, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist) -- Courtesy of The Freeman Institute -- www.PoroCollege.com

 

[newworldafro]

All of the characters in this show are one-dimensional. We can do better than this shyt. It’s just lazy, predictable, flat storytelling.

Plus there’s no reason to make characters gay as an artistic decision if they weren’t gay in real life. This series just screams pandering to women and LGBTQ. And I’m a huge LGBTQ advocate but...you can’t rewrite REAL people’s identities for no reason.

That shiit is wrong. They taking to many liberties. That's why its "Inspired" and not "Based" in the title.

The movie was decent in terms of telling the main plot of the story: How Madame CJ Walker Became the First Self Made American Woman Millionaire.

However, I'm going to need future African American/Black biopics to have #BasedontheLife in the title or as a descriptor. This inspirational shiit is fuucking up historical events and people.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

i haven't watched the sseries to know the colorism discussed, but when i googled the woman from the trailer who said the colorist stuff it turned out she sold bleaching products too so i wasn't doubting that part happened

people are complex. she did some good tho in other areas based on her bio Annie Malone: First African American Millionairess (Educator, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist) -- Courtesy of The Freeman Institute -- www.PoroCollege.com

Yea I was about to talk about this. But I found out years ago about madame cj walkers products outside of the straighten comb. There was a reason that is all most focused on. The rest of her products encouraged self hatred and had dark skinned black women bleaching their skin way before whatever is taking place in Jamaica and Africa .

I wont post any in my stash but If one dares to go down that rabbit hole a good source is to register with newspapers.com and type in her name. You get her ads and it's pretty sad. I respect her hustle in that time though and dont judge her too harshly as this was just the mentality of many black Africans in america who were simpli trying to get rights and jobs and housing.

 

[newworldafro]

i haven't watched the sseries to know the colorism discussed, but when i googled the woman from the trailer who said the colorist stuff it turned out she sold bleaching products too so i wasn't doubting that part happened

people are complex. she did some good tho in other areas based on her bio Annie Malone: First African American Millionairess (Educator, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist) -- Courtesy of The Freeman Institute -- www.PoroCollege.com

Oh damn. She sold bleaching stuff.
I didn't even know they had bleaching back then?

Yea I was about to talk about this. But I found out years ago about madame cj walkers products outside of the straighten comb. There was a reason that is all most focused on. The rest of her products encouraged self hatred and had dark skinned black women bleaching their skin way before whatever is taking place in Jamaica and Africa .

I wont post any in my stash but If one dares to go down that rabbit hole a good source is to register with newspapers.com and type in her name. You get her ads and it's pretty sad. I respect her hustle in that time though and dont judge her too harshly as this was just the mentality of many black Africans in america who were simpli trying to get rights and jobs and housing.

Deep. Ok. Wow.

People are complex. Of course we want our heroes to be "perfect", but they're flawed. I understand that time period, which is I guess is why the director/writers chose to deal with colorism the way they did.

 

[@OffHalsted]

 

[13473]

Oh damn. She sold bleaching stuff. :dwullhuh:
I didn't even know they had bleaching back then?

yes there were plenty

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Oh damn. She sold bleaching stuff.
I didn't even know they had bleaching back then?



Deep. Ok. Wow.

People are complex. Of course we want our heroes to be "perfect", but they're flawed. I understand that time period, which is I guess is why the director/writers chose to deal with colorism the way they did.

To be fair to her, she began corresponding with w.e.b Dubois and even purchased soul of black folks from him in which he thanked her for the purchase the letter he wrote her is in a museum. She began to be more conscious in a sense spoke more of being proud of her dark skin and insisted that she was not straightening sisters hair to make them more white. She also insisted her wealth would be used to uplift her people and she spoke out against lynching which prompted the fbi to spy on her.

But again I dont judge her she came up in a difficult time. We are all flawed.

 

[newworldafro]

To be fair to her, she began corresponding with w.e.b Dubois and even purchased soul of black folks from him in which he thanked her for the purchase the letter he wrote her is in a museum. She began to be more conscious in a sense spoke more of being proud of her dark skin and insisted that she was not straightening sisters hair to make them more white. She also insisted her wealth would be used to uplift her people and she spoke out against lynching which prompted the fbi to spy on her.

But again I dont judge her she came up in a difficult time. We are all flawed.

No doubt.

 

[Jblaze204]

Damn and king james produced this

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Finished this yesterday.

Glad I saw this thread because I really thought there was no way they'd lie about an actual person being gay whose relatives are still alive...

I also don't think CJ was supposed to be viewed as the bad guy. He was the ONLY sympathetic character until Madam found out she was dying.

Overall, it wasn't bad. Just had some pacing issues. She just goes from Glossine ready to be in drugstores to changing her mind without us seeing why.

I hated how at the end they just put words on the screen to tell us the fate of the characters. That could've been shown in a few more episodes.

Otherwise, they should have just made this a movie.

 

[feelosofer]

See Ray Kroc..

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