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Kind of disgusted with this country


Over the MLK weekend American Sniper was number one at the b.o and made 90 million while selma barely hung in the top five. I heard non stop that Chris Kyle was an American hero. He was brave, he was a damn folk hero. I only heard this from white people. Hardly anyone mentioned MLK or what his life means today. We live in a militarized, violent, police state where unless you're white you're life means little. Just as it was when MLK was assassinated by an American sniper.

Snipers/assassins aren't heroes. James Earl Ray, Byron de la Beckwith, Lee Harvey Oswald aren't heroes. Wtf is Chris Kyle a hero. I don't know why it took me so long to realize this is a white country and we will always be an other. Yeah once a year all the media will act like it believes in civil rights but really they're glad he and Malcolm are dead.

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"I don't know why it took me so long to realize this is a white country and we will always be an other."

This sentence alone shows , what an idiot you are.


Hate is baggage. Life is too short to be pissed off all the time

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It's full of racist idiots, mainly conservatives. A bunch of right wing hacks who can't accept that change is coming. I'll never set foot in the US. More likely to get shot by a cop over a terrorist. And these neo con tards think their *beep* is #1.. The only area's murica is #1 are ppl getting shot, overweight ppl and ppl in jail. That's why your *beep* is disgusting. Good day:) And all the ppl responding negatively to you are just the symptom. Probably voted for bush twice, haha.

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So let me get this right. You claim to somehow be more enlightened and intelligent and then proceed to falsely generalize an enormous country full of literally every demographic possible? You don't see the irony there? I mean saying most of the US is conservative is just straight up not true, makes me think you have never once read any factual evidence about America. Are there some *beep* here? No doubt, but something tells me you've got your share wherever you live considering you are one. You and all the other people with this "yeah bro america is just a bunch of fat idiots" idea are pretty far removed from reality. If you real think a country entirely populated by morons could hold the position of power in the world that it does then you're the dumbest person on this board and that's seriously saying something. You do realize that saying white people as an insult makes you racist right? Not only racist but self loathing racist which brings up so many mental health concerns I don't even want to start. Have fun being mentally challenged and media brainwashed.
Good day

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Wow. You really are a massive idiot.

As far as not setting foot here...good.

I'm not even close to being "right-wing" (the compound modifier is hyphenated, since you're playing cultural-intellectual superior here), nor did I vote for Bush even once. But stupid is stupid, and you're it.

And no, your likelihood of getting shot by a cop here is near zero, as long as you don't resist arrest, try to beat the officer down, and try to steal his weapon to murder him with it. Avoid that, and your odds are good. Moron.

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"It's full of racist idiots, mainly conservatives. A bunch of right wing hacks who can't accept that change is coming. I'll never set foot in the US. More likely to get shot by a cop over a terrorist. And these neo con tards think their *beep* is #1.. The only area's murica is #1 are ppl getting shot, overweight ppl and ppl in jail. That's why your *beep* is disgusting. Good day:) And all the ppl responding negatively to you are just the symptom. Probably voted for bush twice, haha."

This has got to be the most ignorant, xenophobic comment I've come across in these boards, and I've come across quite a lot!

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Please note that these are movies and not historical documents. As it happens there is a lot of unease about American Sniper. Just because a movie is about MLK doesn't make it a shoe in for the awards season nor does it necessarily make it a great film, personally I think Eddie Redmayne could win the Oscar simply because of the good old fashioned premise that playing a disabled person is how to win an Oscar, a shame for Michael Keaton as he was superb in Birdman and is more deserving of the Oscar than Redmayne.

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What if this was a movie about JFK and the sniper movie was about a black sniper?

I would still go to see the sniper movie instead becuause I've had enough of JFK conspiracies.

I am sure Selma is incredible but amazing performances and desserves all the praise its getting but you have to pay me to go see that boring piece of crap.


I'm the guy who makes the "worst movie ever" thread in your favorite movie board

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I think you're missing the main point (the OP himself isn't even aware of it), which is this: Every bad outcome -- including even something as trivial as movie awards -- is a result of racism, if racial differences are present at all. Or so the theory goes.

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do black Americans every thank white people for bringing them to America and saving them from the dung heap that Africa has turned into?

Next time someone wants to protest, tell them to talk to an african, a REAL african, and ask them to compare africa to america.

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"How dare black people criticise contemporary America! They should be forever grateful for being enslaved all those centuries ago and never ever complain because.. uuh.. look at Africa now!"

Wow, I can't tell if you are just very uninformed and stupid or just a despicable person.

Much like with many posters in this thread.

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Seriously ??

Black ppl should thank the white man for making them slaves and trying to keep these human beings as nothing. ....not wanting to give them the basic right that every single human being in this country deserves ??


I just can't believe someone actually said that .....just baffles me

But then again it shouldn't. .....it seems that racism is just as alive today as it was back then

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it seems that racism is just as alive today as it was back then
I don't see racism per se as the problem, at least not as the notion of hating someone merely for their skin color. The problem is that fanatical right-wingers (who have completely taken over mega-media corporations and the Republican party) have an agenda which white people of low intelligence and/or information interpret (and react to) along racial lines. The right-wing-nuts just luv any negro who shares their economic ideology, but some people are just too unsophisticated to interpret this correctly, so it manifests itself as primitive racism.

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Ya it was dumb.
American sniper probably got more because oscar nominations just came out and it was marketed more to a larger demographic.
Both films are good but selma is wayyyy better.

P.S: im white and i look up to mlk more as a role model

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If only disgusted people would get their asses to Canada.....

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