>they like Hidden Figures b/c...umm...hmmm...b/c. well,
>uh...b/c. oh it's...b/c the Black man's role in that is on
>the sideline. it's mostly about Black women being smarter
>than them. but...uh...i guess they still had that Jim Crow
>shit.


No, because it was about Black people seeking white
validation and there was the good white person who
gave it to them. Plus Kevin Costner was in it,
and that's the same guy who depicted Black people
so horribly in that Black White movie, so no
surprises there.


>let's see...what other Black movies do they like? or did they
>like this year?
>
>oh that's right...they liked that Nat Turner movie. the one
>they spent millions of dollars producing, and then they spent
>millions buying the distribution rights @ Sundance. and then
>they spent millions promoting it. but somehow they're skurred
>of it b/c Nat Turner's revolt was unsuccessful in that he and
>the others were captured and killed and many others were also
>killed.


The millions to buy it was nothing to protect the
legacy of the name of the movie that first had the
name. Speaking of "big black buck", that movie played
on the fear of Black men raping the precious white
woman and depicted the KKK hunting him down and
killing him. It created the burning cross image the
KKK love so much. The KKK were the heroes. It was
the first major American motion picture. All of this
on the strength of the "big black buck" myth.
Disgusting that you make a joke of that, but I expect
it at from you at this point... so you're probably not
wrong about Moonlight. I haven't seen it, but I digress.
They bought it to have control over it.
The marketing was poor, especially considering that it
was left out of so many key theaters, particularly
in the south, where the impact could have been
revolutionary.