The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread

[Black Narcissus]

Nick Cannon also met his wife when he was like 7 yrs old. True story.

 

[charl_huntress]

They have not created a number yet that could calculate my age.

lol...I stop celebrating my birthday when I hit 29. So who knows how old I really am... t:

i agreed with Roach and his comment if you dont well that's fine and dandy too. Black Vulcan doesnt come here to debate. he comes here to see chicks dressed up as revealing anime characters and to ask Brother questions about Pootie tang.I have found in my travels people dont change their opinion and hence i dont have the inclination to carry on long debates... plus you can get carpal tunnel syndrome from that %^&. as for showing solidarity for Roach's comment it is "my History" and i want to know, but that's just me.

That's cool. I just prefer not to watch that stuff. I'll read a book about slavery and black history first.

I thought 42 was a really good movie, but it's a sports movie about racism. We all know how those work. Harrison Ford is really good in it though. Probably my favorite performance of his since Indy 4.

I am making dinner for a few friends, so I think that will be the movie tonight. I'm pretty knowledgeable about Robison since he went to my alma mater.

Some would argue that 'bad black cinema' is better than 'no black cinema', I fully disagree. Perry is setting all of us back.

There are days when I agree with this, but then I think about all the black actors who stayed employed because of Perry... I think at this point Perry is a necessary evil.

My goals in going to film school was to elevate black cinema. Because it's just Tyler Perry and Kevin Hart...and Steve McQueen.

We got the black Godfather gangsta films down and the romantic comedies down...but it's time for us to spread it out some...try some other genre's

That's why I'm a fan of Shonda Rhimes. I like how she doesn't just focus on black folk. I also am hoping for a day when cinema isn't classified as white, black, Hispanic, etc...

 

[RockSP]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but is anyone else the only the black person in their group of friends?

Nope. My crew is black is yall...and they're black yall...and they're blackity black and they're black yall...

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[RockSP]

As an older person Roots was an important step in black cinema...this was the first time that black people were more than criminals, pimps, drug dealers.

Not true.

My goals in going to film school was to elevate black cinema. Because it's just Tyler Perry and Kevin Hart...and Steve McQueen.

Also not true.

We got the black Godfather gangsta films down and the romantic comedies down...but it's time for us to spread it out some...try some other genre's

Black filmmakers make all kinds of films. Getting distribution is another story.

 

[Boy Scout]

Nope. I've always had some black friends in my social circle.

This is a fairly recent development. I could count the number of white friends I had on one hand before I transferred.

Does it matter to you that your the only black person in your group of friends?

Not at all. I was just curious.

I don't think most men of any race are that attracted to the skinny runway models you see on high fashion runways either.

I used to be attracted to really thin girls, but then I turned 14.

Charl, have you seen Django Unchained? It was brutal at moments, but I thought it was a fun movie.

I love that movie.

I was visiting my mother in Atlanta and this was before I went off to film school. So my mother's neighbor comes by and my mom tells her I am going to film school. "Oh you're gonna go work with Tyler Perry?"

I thought he was funny when I was younger, but I stopped paying attention to him when I realized all of his movies had the exact same plot.

That said, I can't say I'd turn him down if he called me tomorrow and offered me a job.

Dear Brotha,

Is Nick Cannon hilarious?

Hell no.

 

[Arach Knight]

If a Sundiata film were made, I just might cry genuine tears of joy. Sundiata is one of my favorite epic poems and a fantastic mix of fantasy and history. Wraiths, a super humanly strong prince and shape shifters? Yes please.

 

[roach]

Not true.



Also not true.



Black filmmakers make all kinds of films. Getting distribution is another story.

my post cannot be refuted

 

[roach]

lol...I stop celebrating my birthday when I hit 29. So who knows how old I really am... t:


That's why I'm a fan of Shonda Rhimes. I like how she doesn't just focus on black folk. I also am hoping for a day when cinema isn't classified as white, black, Hispanic, etc...

I stopped celebrating at 2900...

 

[charl_huntress]

I stopped celebrating at 2900...

Welcome Rameses....

 

[roach]

Welcome Rameses....

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

 

[Sawyer]

Nick Cannon also met his wife when he was like 7 yrs old. True story.

Jesus, Mariah was already famous when he was only 7?

 

[charl_huntress]

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

lol....


Ask a question....

...just don't be too clever.

 

[terry78]

Haha, I did forget how much of an age difference there is between them.

 

[E-Man]

Everyone wants a sexy cougar that can sing. Or at least that's my hope. I'm still waiting on Teedra Moses to give me a call. If she won't do I'll go younger with Elle Varner because of dat ass and voice.

 

[RockSP]

my post cannot be refuted

Well when you put it like that, it must be true.

 

[roach]

Well when you put it like that, it must be true.

t:

ok what's up with the cocoa butter thing...like I don't know why I buy cocoa butter lotion but I do.

 

[Sawyer]

I haven't watched The Real World in about 10 years, but as I remember it, every black guy who was cast on that show ended up too busy standing back and avoiding their white housemates' craziness to hook up with anyone anyway.

Season after season, there'd be a new black guy sitting on the sofa, shaking his head while the two easiest housemates make out and catch feelings, the drama queen yells at everyone, someone fights the resident bigot, and the only other normal person there gets dragged into everyone else's morass.

It's funny because it's true.

Though in fairness, a few seasons ago, I think it was the New Orleans season, they had a straight black guy, a gay black guy and some Draco Malfoy looking mother****er that everyone else hated. He and the gay black guy were pretty much at odds immediately and episode by episode, he kept pissing off another houseguest one at a time, until he finally sent the straight black guy, who up until that point had been the most easy-going by far, into a rage and everyone just stood back and went "Holy ****, dude. You definitely went too far this time." And then not long after Draco Malfoy was forced off the show.

 

[terry78]

The black guys on that show basically had to be pretty much non-confrontational and the happy party dude because any type of anger was getting them thrown off.

 

[RockSP]

I haven't watched The Real World in about 10 years, but as I remember it, every black guy who was cast on that show ended up too busy standing back and avoiding their white housemates' craziness to hook up with anyone anyway.

Maybe in the later seasons, but in the first two the black guys were "angry black man" stereptypes to the fullest. Kevin argued with everybody except maybe Heather B and the comedian in season 2 was the first person ever to get kicked off the show. I do remember season 3 had the mellow Cali musician black guy...

 

[E-Man]

I just checked, and The Real World is still going on in its 29th season. How many times can they do that **** before people get tired of it? Whatever floats their boat, but I figured that formula would have been dead by now.

 

[Manic]

Maybe in the later seasons, but in the first two the black guys were "angry black man" stereptypes to the fullest. Kevin argued with everybody except maybe Heather B and the comedian in season 2 was the first person ever to get kicked off the show. I do remember season 3 had the mellow Cali musician black guy...

That was Puck, right? Was he season 2? I kept thinking he was season 1.

The first couple of black guys were angry black men, though.

 

[Lencho01]

Dear Brotha,

Is Nick Cannon hilarious?

Only because he married Mariah Carey.

 

[RockSP]

That was Puck, right? Was he season 2? I kept thinking he was season 1.

Nah Puck was season 3. Season 2 the black comedian (David, I think) got kicked off for trying to pull the bedspread off of the black girl (who went on to become one of those basketball wives...can't remember her name though and don't care enough to google it lol).

 

[roach]

Nah Puck was season 3. Season 2 the black comedian (David, I think) got kicked off for trying to pull the bedspread off of the black girl (who went on to become one of those basketball wives...can't remember her name though and don't care enough to google it lol).

I think they were playing around and then the girl started saying it was attempted rape.

 

[Lencho01]

I remember in one of the RR/RW challenges, Puck and David got in an argument, Puck spit on David, and I think Puck was kicked off.