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'African-American Movies' versus 'Caucasian Movies'


When I turn on the TV to watch a movie or TV show, the last thing on my mind is the race of the cast. Though, more often than not (let's just say, 95% of the time), the cast is predominately caucasian. And just because they have a few minorities sprinkled in, doesn't make it any less of a caucasian movie. There are barely any starring roles out there for african-american actors, so I don't blame them for making roles by casting an african-american cast. As an aspiring african-american actress, I applaud them for making more roles for the minorities. There needs to be more MAJOR/STARRING roles out there for us all. I've never see this much complaining when they have an all asian cast or an all latino cast in a movie. Even if a cast if of another race, it doesn't mean I can't relate to the movie... we're all human. Movies are entertainment, and if you're not entertained, change the channel! Don't turn this into another meaningless arguement over race. It's not that serious.

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Hey, hope you don't mind my changing the thread title for this post.

I was prepared to argue with you when I saw the thread title, but instead find myself in complee agreement with your post.


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Yeah, I saw the title of the thread and was all like oh boy not another one of those threads. I didn't get to see much of this movie. From what I saw it had a very strong cast, the writing might have been a little weak. I think the IMDB rating is way off, should be at least a 6 for the cast alone.

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I will make one additional comment here.

If this movie had an all Caucasian cast but essentially the same plot and script, the only changes being those necessary ones to reflect the Caucasian culture, it would have a higher rating (Probably not a favorable one, but not as abysmally low as it now is) and fewer racial threads on the board (Yeah, there would be one or two threads complaining about the lack of Blacks in the cast, but not as many). And there probably would be far fewer 1 ratings from voters who didn't see the movie.

And yes, I agree that we need more movies with important roles for everybody including African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans

BTW, I sincerely wish the OP all the luck in the world in becoming a successful actress.


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Well, it's easy to see that FrostyHornyPie is prejudiced. If a white person said that black people voted positively on a movie because the starring roles were black, that person would be kicked by black people from here to kingdom come. Black people seem to enjoy calling caucasions 'honkey,' 'whitey' and other slur names but heaven forbid if a white person called a black person a slur name. Black people don't want to be segregated but most segregate themselves and blame it on white people. Some expect white people to give them starring roles just because they're black, and give starring roles to other ethnic people as well. All ancestors of white people are from other countries, if you remember your history lessons. We do not expect things from people just because our ancestors were English, German, Polish, Swedish, Irish, Russian, Bulgarian, French, Italian or any other ethnic group. Africans, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are not owed anything just because of the color of their skin. They must work for it just like everybody else. If ethnic groups feel that they must work harder for what they get, then work harder. My grandparents did because they came to the US from Europe without knowing how to speak English, and there was no Equal Opportunity Employment law that helped them. They worked plenty hard for whatever they earned just to put food on the table and clothes on their childrens' backs, never mind starring roles in movies! Are black people saying that they're better than my grandparents or the other billions of grandparents?

Regarding the term 'African-American': The name of this country is not African-America. It's America. Most black people living in the US cannot say that they were born in Africa, nor can they say that their parents were born in Africa. To say that you're African-American is segregating yourselves, something for which you are blaming English-American, German-American, Polish-American, Swedish-American, Irish-American, Russian-American, Bulgarian-American, French-American, Italian-American, etc, people. I, for one, am more than disgusted with this blatant bigotry. If white people NOWADAYS did the same to black people, it wouldn't be tolerated. As a matter of fact, any motion picture, tv series or cartoons that negatively depict black people have been banned. I've stopped tolerating bigotry from black people and if black people don't like it, then they'd better take a good look at their own bigotry first because black people as a majority cannot say that they don't harbor bigotry against white people because it's very obvious that they do.


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I'm not sure I get your loin. I'm an Austro-Hungarian. I'm not an American emotionally even though I have a citizenship paper and I've lived here most of my life. I don't belong.I never will. I am a displaced person. But-back to the movie-I gave it a 7. Loooove Mr. Chestnut. What a smile. And the little girl was just adorable. Who wouldn't want to be her father.The movie left me happy. I thought the rating was far too low. But not to worry-not everyone votes-or rates. Chalk it up to seasonal laziness. Now back to to hanging 100 year old dancing pairs to my Christmas tree.

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I agree. Though I personally believe if African-Americans want starting rolls, we shouldn't have to depend on Caucasian producers to give them to us. We can make films just like anyone else. Of coarse I'm not saying our movies have to be 100 % black. When I found my own production company and make my own films, I will cast those best for the roll and try to have many different people in my films; though I will admit, most of the stories I write are about black main characters. But we have to depend on ourselves not others to be successful.

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