Why do we keep going to white-owned theaters to look at white-produced, white-distributed, white-typecast, white-scripted movies and expect that white people, being human, would ever do anything other than what humans do with their cultural productions — that is, reinforce their high opinion of themselves and their culture and propagate it for the next generation? White culture, for 2,500 years, has had no interest in portraying any other culture as having parity with them — does anybody remember how the Greeks considered every non-Greek a mere barbarian? By the way, even the word “barbarian” comes from Berber, a tribe in Northern Africa. Even back in the day, powerful Europeans oriented themselves at the top with Africans at the bottom of their cultural scale. This has been going on for at least 2,500 years; it is unlikely to change the next time a historical movie comes along.

At some point, sensible Black people just have to stop paying money to be entertained AND upset by the descendants of Europeans doing what they’ve always done. Seriously: if we want to drop $10-15 watching people exalt their culture at the expense of ours for the sake of entertainment, and then get upset, the problem is not with white people.

I totally agree with you. I talk about us creating opportunities to correct what we don’t like all the time.

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0) Remember it’s entertainment
1) I thought it was a great portrayal of behind the scenes politicking thats often played in decision making
2) Someone would have plenty of content to do the “black” story and it’s involvement from a societal point of view and also militarily on both sides (North and South) during the period of the war
3) The movie portrayed the moral fiber of people as the reason the abolishment was able to happen – if that is correct I don’t see how slavery lasted as long as it did here – does anyone on the site know how many times a slavery abolishment vote was brought to the table?
4) The role of black military involvement was pivotal in winning the war

I have to agree with you statement “It sure is his story, because it sure isn’t ours”. The irony of the thing is, we have the talent and resources (Directors/Produces/Writers, Motown,BET,books and live theater) and yet we spend billions yearly on entertainment to have someone else tell our story, and have the nerve to complain, because they don’t tell the story right.
It’s [y]our own fault, blame [y]ourselves.

I didn’t find this out until I watched the PBS special, The Civil War. This documentary gives you the real story about this time and what really happen. So once again, our so called for fathers are still the hypocrites no one claims them to be. When someone controls your history, they can make up or say whatever they want and call it history. I t sure is his story, because it sure isn’t ours.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness