The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 3

[MessiahDecoy123]

I think it's fair to balance out negative stereotypes over-emphasized in the news and film with idealized blacks.

Unless the media is going to collectively stop the emphasis of negative black stereotypes...and that's not going to happen.

 

[E-Man]

Spy author Anthony Horowitz 'warned off' creating black character


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39988992

Personally I think this is a case of book editors and writers being too overly sensitive. Unless your specifically writing a story about a character from particularly different background that requires either first hand experience or extensive research to provide insight and nuance then I don't see the issue.

If people from different genders, races, sexual preferences are segregated into only writing people from the same background as them then we won't get as much diversity as we would like in our media. As long as you aren't writing caricatures or stereotypes I don't think most normal people would be offended.

This is the result of the idiocy of mass complaining on social media. They really need to stop listening to dumb asses that get offended at everything because their logic almost never works. This is why we end up with people like Hudlin and Coates writing bad Black Panther runs. This idea that only black writers know how to properly write black characters is straight outta Shea Butterville.

 

[chamber-music]

I saw this London news report today about black women's hair.
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It is disheartening to see just how unaccepting some non-black people seem to be about black people's natural hair and the effect that is having on young black girls and black women.

For all the racial progress we have made it black people's hair still seems to be such a major issue for non-black people for some reason.

What do you guys think?

 

[Pink Ranger]

It is disheartening to see just how unaccepting some non-black people seem to be about black people's natural hair and the effect that is having on young black girls and black women.

For all the racial progress we have made it black people's hair still seems to be such a major issue for non-black people for some reason.

What do you guys think?

As an Asian person, I'm just glad this isn't a mirror universe where I have to get constant perms in order to get a professional job.

 

[terry78]

The constant perms are just a personal thing, we know.

 

[Erzengel]

I saw this London news report today about black women's hair.
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It is disheartening to see just how unaccepting some non-black people seem to be about black people's natural hair and the effect that is having on young black girls and black women.

For all the racial progress we have made it black people's hair still seems to be such a major issue for non-black people for some reason.

What do you guys think?

Does it not help that Tanyaradswa Nyenwa's hair is obviously straightened?

 

[Pink Ranger]

The constant perms are just a personal thing, we know.

The worst thing about me being a perfectionist is that everything has to match. Everything.

 

[the last son]

Yeah love it when black women have the dreads and natural hair

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I saw this London news report today about black women's hair.
[YT]/byZVhWZNpq8[/YT]

It is disheartening to see just how unaccepting some non-black people seem to be about black people's natural hair and the effect that is having on young black girls and black women.

For all the racial progress we have made it black people's hair still seems to be such a major issue for non-black people for some reason.

What do you guys think?

Imagine if whites had to make their hair appear like black hair to get employment or education.

But that would never happen because whites aren't treated like second class school children.

 

[chamber-music]

The whole "conform to our standard of beauty because your own races appreance is disagreeable to us" is messed. I shocked more women aren't suing for discrimination. Some woman was in the news a couple years ago just for suing a company that forced her to wear high heels on a temp receptionist job so "I won't hire you unless you have non-black hair" is probably law suit worth.

There was nothing wrong with that woman's hair that should disqualify her from working in a high end store.

 

[the last son]

Yo, black wall street was crazy. I never even heard of that event until like a year ago. Maybe I'm an idiot, but was never taught about it in school or friends or through the media. It should be.

 

[RockSP]

Yo, black wall street was crazy. I never even heard of that event until like a year ago. Maybe I'm an idiot, but was never taught about it in school or friends or through the media. It should be.

I found out about it just a few years ago myself. I don't think it is something that is widely known. It's definitely not something that is taught in school...if school is anything like it was when I was a kid. A paragraph about slavery and paragraph about MLK, pretty much summed up black American history. Maybe throw in a few sentences about George Washington Carver.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Yo, black wall street was crazy. I never even heard of that event until like a year ago. Maybe I'm an idiot, but was never taught about it in school or friends or through the media. It should be.

That's because it goes against the narrative that blacks are responsible for their own destruction throughout history.

 

[RockSP]

Dear Brotha,

Do you have a dash cam? If not, seriously consider it.

 

[terry78]

Instead of them 20s buy a dash cam. Ya'll know how we do.

 

[the last son]

Was xerxes in 300 blackface? At the very least I don't understand why you couldn't hire a Brown person to play them.

 

[Erzengel]

The actor in 300 was Hispanic playing someone who was Persian.

 

[the last son]

The actor in 300 was Hispanic playing someone who was Persian.

Still painted himself brown.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah that's reaching.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Yeah that's reaching.

Looking at that picture I am sure they applied something to his skin make up wise but "painting him brown" is not what I see.

 

[Erzengel]

A shade darker? Maybe. But I wouldn't expect that to be the definition of black face.

 

[Lencho01]

I wouldn't call this blackface since that pertains to Black people.

 

[chamber-music]

I'm not sure a Persian actor would probably want to play Xerxes considering how he and the Persians were portrayed in the movie 300. The film was denounced by the Iranian government and various Iranians in regards to their portrayal.

Pretty sure Snyder' was more interested in how many abs the actors had than their heritage anyway.

None of the actors were were played by actors from the same background. Rodrigo Santoro is Brazilian. Gerard Butler is Scottish. Micheal Fassbender is Irish/German. Lena Heady and Gerard Butler are English.

It was a over the top fictional retelling of Battle of Thermopylae not a documentary.

 

[Donner]

Alright, I have a silly white girl question and I need some help. Please bear with me, I'm Canadian and I'm not too familiar with black culture in the US.

I went to a bachelorette party in Anaheim with some friends. 6 of us, all white, all Canadian. We went to a club called Urban and while standing in the ridiculously long lineup, I noticed that we were the only white people there. It felt like people were giving us looks, wondering why we were there. I told my group that perhaps this wasn't our scene and we should go somewhere else, but they insisted we stay.

We get into the club and there is now a lot of attention on us, from the guys who seem interested and are dancing around us and also from the girls who seem a bit peeved. My question to you guys, should we have left? Is this another example of white people thinking we can go wherever we want or am I overthinking it?