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Just to review....
You wrote:
I asked:
You didn't respond....please provide examples of Hollywood touting a racist agenda. before we go much further.
I didn't mention "racist" agenda, you did.
I just quoted you saying exactly that.
I don't remember the name of the ONE film you're referring to. Apparently neither do you since you didn't mention it. As I recall the point of the movie though--I and apparently about 300 million other people never saw it (so much for the acknowledgement of Hollywood eh?)--was that the GITMO prisoners got better healthcare than US Citizens. On that one point, it was correct.
Stats to back that whopper of a lie up, please.
Blacks are portrayed as: superior, inferior, cooler, idiots, con men, heroic, ruthless, compassionate, obstinate, compliant, mostly based on how hollywood wants them portrayed. Very rarely are blacks portrayed as the average joe, working hard, and getting by, raising a family and trying to keep the drama low.
I can name 5 movies off the top of my head where blacks are in a movie just a working joes. But to your point...do you really want to see a movie about some guy going to work in a metal shop or office or chemical plant or JC Penny, working for 8 hours, coming home and watching TV? Show me a movie that features a white actor/actress who is confined to a role like that...
So, please, let's go deeper: why does hollywood choose to downplay the USA as exceptional, while elevating countries that use bribes as way of doing business as desirable?
Well, The Avengers was set in New York City. It was about a largely American set of super heroes. Oh and by the way, it left out Colonel Rhodes--the black colonel who was in the first two Iron Man movies. One would think that if it were such an orchestrated plot to portray blacks as heroic, they would have put him in there. How do you explain that? MIB III was about exceptional Americans. Madagascar III was about exceptional American animals or animals from an American zoo. Rock of Ages was about exceptional American musicians. And apparently the movie that put the bee in the bonnet of the moron who started this ridiculous thread is about an exceptional American airline pilot. Oh but he's black so I'm guessing you don't think he is a real American.
Candy on the Hollywood part he's correct, it's better now, but watch Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townshend, he makes the exact point.