For those who don't know, mentioning something that has something to do with another race, by making it sound less significant than it originally was, or trivial, or some how humorous, can be disrespectful too. For example, all though it may not meet the definition of a racial slur per say, at least admit that hearing a non-White person say, "Say it Loud", for a joke does leave a little stench. Now if a Black person say it, it can sound all the way different. But even we need to be careful when we do this. For example in the 80's, Black people would sometimes say, "Let Freedom Rain", for a joke. I guess that could have been taken either way, although I never said that. But if a White person would have said it, then all h*** would have broken loose. And to hear a White person take the title of one of James Brown's biggest songs for Black people from the 60's like, "Say it Loud", and mock it by connecting it to a comedy movie with practically no Black people in it, is sleezy to me. You have to remember something about the civil rights movement to understand this. Then again, you should be able to see right through it.
I remember back at my IT job, which only had a handful of Blacks, I would sometimes say, "Say it Loud", to this older brother. And he was cool with it...may he rest in peace. I remember I use to tell this one brother, who was sort of a Tom, who was about my age, that he was too scared to say the word Black. Believe it or not, I was the one who started saying that. I didn't hear that again until several years later, when Obama got elected, and he got accused of that...which was a few years after Eric Holder accused America of acting cowardly when it came to race.
Anyway, White people on that IT job didn't like, "Say it Loud", when they'd hear me say it. Since this job had so many other Black people scared to say the word Black, of course "Say it Loud" didn't pick up with them either. The older brother I mentioned above, who I use to say this to, was 6' 4", with a high pay-grade, and he had over 30 years in. Since his name was George, I use to call him "King George", and he was cool with that as well. Tall older brothers on the job with that name, who get anywhere near his status, usually earn the nick-name "King George", like the way it was on my Security Guard job, that was 99.9% Black. But on this mostly White IT job, White people couldn't accept calling a Black man "King" anything. So they refused to call him that nickname, but nobody had a problem calling this White man by his new nickname, "Pigger"...who liked being called that, knowing the joke was really on us. Talking about staying on code. Even Black people called him that, even though they were really mocking themselves. I never called him that.
Anyway, believe it or not, I was gonna see "The Machine" anyway that week, since it was a corny AMC email, and nothing to do with the producers of the movie. But like I said, the movie didn't having any Black people in it. I guess that was loud. Well, they did have one Black girl in it. Anyway, I decided to see "The Boogeyman" that week instead.
I think the "The Machine" flopped anyway.