Subj : The Birth of a Nation (1915)
To   : MRO
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Oct 24 2022 12:51 pm

  Re: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  By: MRO to Arelor on Mon Oct 24 2022 07:35 am

 >   Re: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
 >   By: Arelor to Digital Man on Mon Oct 24 2022 06:39 am
 > 
 >  >
 >  > I got burned by Hollywood with that Black Panther monstruosity which
 >  > shoehorned identitary politics so hard in a flick that should have been very
 >  > serious business, about guys in funny customers beating other guys in funny
 >  > customes. Then I got burnt with Western cinema in general with Mrs. Sloanne
 > 
 > you didn't like black panther?
 > i liked it. except for the stupid colonizer shit
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I didn't like Black Panther precisely because the colonizer shit was too heavy to be
overpassed by all the other merits the film had (which it did).

The premise of the film was that a black country had managed to survive and maintain
its supremacy and cultural integrity by denying entrance to foreigners. If you
reversed the premise and the film was about a  white country that had managed to
survive the cultural slaughter from blacks by denying them access, it would have been
labeled as a racist as fuck film, and for good reason.

I am lenient towards old films when they do things like this because I tend to
consider them a product of their time. Shaft trying to save Harlem from white cops and
white mobsters was a product of its time. Wakandans complaining for what whites did to
them and blaming their problems on whites is just racism introduced with a political
agenda and pisses me no-end.

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