Oscar baiting based on false racism accusations

I'm African American and stuff like this pisses me off.
They are doing a true disservice to the story in order to sell tickets and to pander to the minority audience. This movie looks like a bad Lifetime/Tyler Perry movie.
As I've said before, tell the story right or don't tell it at all.

Well, she may have made the history books, but I lived through 8 days of TV coverage of the Apollo 11 mission, and I don't think she was mentioned once by any of the networks.

1. Why are you bringing up race?
2. Like the other poster mentioned, I've read and seem a litany of Apollo spaxe program and their contributions have been neglected.


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Oscar bait? You mean Razzie Award bait?

I'm American and the first I heard of her was this movie trailer. Other countries textbooks tend to be more factual and well rounded then American ones.

Because in the USA in the 1960's and earlier just being anything other than a white male christian meant someone was going to be against you. Just being a black woman meant that the playing field was very uneven. Read the book this movie is based on and you'll see how being black and/or being a woman made you a victim if you dared to step outside certain boundaries.

@aya-ar


So what is with all these racial connections really? Why can't they celebrate a successful intelligent woman without having to make her a victim somehow..ughhh freaking Hollywood.



Since you're not American---let me explain something right quick. First of all, EVERYTHING in America is about race, mainly because white people (the majority here) set it up that way since America began. Second, very few people outside of the STEM fields here have even heard of Katherine Johnson, let alone the other women she worked with. And being a black woman in the space field back then, she had a lot of racism to deal with and a number of barriers to break, and to work harder to prove herself more than the average white man (something most women of any color had to do back then.) So the fact that there were even black women working behind the scenes to make the space race happen back in those days will come as quite a revelation to a hell of a lot of people. Being a black female filmgoer myself, I'm looking forward to seeing it. And the reality is, if she was a white male, she'd be a hell of a lot more well-known by now, and the fact was that even an intelligent and talented black woman had very few options to use her intelligence in pre-civil rights America. I knew very little about Johnson myself before finding out about this film some months ago. Before you start making assumptions, you need to start reading up on American history and find out how discrimination and racism kept capable and talented black folks back a hell of a lot back then.

And fck all these racist hater trolls who haven't even SEEN the film, but swarm to every damn board about a black film and start criticizing it just because it's about black people. Ignore the hell out of them, and go see the film.

@aya-ar

Also, there is no information about whether this film has even been submitted for Oscar consideration anyway. The only people calling it "Oscar bait" are you, and these stupid racist trolls spewing their racist bull**** all over the board. Every time a positive film about black people comes out, the racists get all riled the hell up and come on these boards to throw a damn fit about it. They're so fckg pathetic----they can't stand to see a film or anything give a black person credit for any damn thing, no matter how hard they worked to get it. It's coming out whether they like it or not. I also never hear them whining about all the white Oscar bait films that come out practically EVERY damn year---funny how they never have NOTHING to say about those, but they pounce on the ONE black film that isn't even released yet. Fck all these stupid racist-a** haters.