An American actor playing BlackFace in America! SLAP IN THE FACE Black People!?!

By Sungod

Most people my age can remember the old Black face Vaudville /minstrel shows(1900 to as late as 1981) our parents used to tell us about and to see this on the TV
we had no idea what it meant or that it was a very racist time when(this also was going on in Europe during the same time and it was very popular there) this was going on,all we knew was that the people playing
in the show were supposed to be white but their faces were colored black to represent black people at that time because
they refused to have us playing our self in the show because to them that would be defeating the purpose and that was to make fun of black people and our color.
At that time they knew how this made us feel but they didn’t care because they were in charge and ruled us with an iron fist,much like they did us on a daily basis when you live during the time of jim crow and
slavery.This era was a hard time for us(1876 to 1965)and we had no say period.i just wanted to say that an actor who would sign on to do something like this at this particular time shows me that they didn’t care and don’t care about what we think nor do they think anything can or could
be done about it BUT in order to do it they had to find an actor who wouldn’t bring attention to the industry and they a person they could blame it on not to mention kick to the curb if it got to heavy to deal with
so at that time there was an actor who fit the profile(Robert Downey Jr)he was in and out of rehab and jail for the past 10 years and they thought he fit the script perfect because he had been given so many chances
till he created a scapegoat for them if they needed and for this particular film they needed it.I really don’t think he understood the importance of this role in how it furthered the idea and ideology of Racism and how it gave the green light to other overt or covert projects of this nature to be supported and created in an effort to bring back those old ways of thinking, which by the way, never left but it just became to expensive and bad for business in most of their eyes.Let me give you if you had not seen the film a little back drop to what it is about:Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Here is the story line:A film crew is in Southeast Asia filming a Vietnam-war memoir. It’s early in the shooting, but they’re already behind schedule and over budget. On the day an accident befalls the novice director, the cast and crew are attacked by a gang of poppy-growing local drug dealers, except the cast and crew don’t realize these aren’t actors who are stalking them. The thugs kidnap Tugg Speedman, an actor whose star seems on the decline, and it’s up to the rest of the ragtag team to band together long enough to attempt his rescue. But will Tugg want to leave? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The movie was released in August 13 2008,with an R rating,the budget was 92,000,000dlrs it also was filmed in Kaua’i Hawaii,
Opening Weekend:
$25,812,796 (USA) (17 August 2008) (3319 Screens)
Gross:
$110,416,702 (USA) (9 November 2008)
The total gross world wide to include Russia,Phillipines,UK and US
is 283,455,752million dlrs.
So clearly there is a market for films like this but at what cost to us because they can care less so we have to get off our butts and educate our selves and our kids to be mind full of stuff like this and don’t support it.
racism is clearly prevalent today and it also is very OVERT in the minds of other people looking to discriminate against us
and no one is going to care about you if you don’t care about yourself,this is why You need to Know!
      

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