1.) Bulworth is an insulting movie (though sympathetic to black people its depicition of black people is very out of touch).
2.) Bamboozled, the best of the bunch, falls apart storytelling-wise towards the end like every other spike lee movie.
3.) Dead President was told with no historical authenticity (young kids depicting what they thought the 70s were like without doing any research).
4. Higher Learning just treaded in the most two deminsional(sp) stereotypical identity politics (Methinks Singleton didn’t know any white people in college and struggled on depicting them with any depth).
5. Didn’t See Men of Honor but I hear good things about it.

If you want to check out underated black films I would start off with Black Films that truly speak from a Black POV and not films that don’t require white characters which are often used to lure white viewers into the theaters. From this perspective, I think you have to see “Eve’s Bayou”. I gaurantee if you see this film, you will amend your list.

I’d like to think it’s more inclusive than marginalizing.

I’d like to recommend The Last Dragon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089461/

Anyway, to the topic at hand,

i have watched Men of Honor and Dead presidents, i loved them both, but i thought Dead Prez was just another low B udget black movie which was actually good.

i will look out for the rest

I never had an argument, I just wanted you to keep replying so I could get an idea of why you felt the need to call everyone associated with this post a whine-bag. I’m not saying you can’t or shouldn’t post, just wanted to get a much deeper reason for your comments other then being a morgan freeman fan boi.

Had you meant what you are pretending you did now, you would have to have said something like, “We all have equal rights under the Constitution.”

Instead, you said (paraphrasing here), “Aren’t we all equal now…Martin Luther King…’please feel sorry for us’…blah blah usual crap.”

Translation: Isn’t racial inequality a thing of the past? Can’t You People just get over it? The answer to the first question remains no, and the answer to the second question is call me back when you’re black.

Although I understand how tempting it is to try to make up something now to obscure the intended meaning of your original paragraph, please to remember that the words themselves, in all their glory, remain unchanged at the top of the page, and we can read.

I’m thinking of choreographing a new dance called The Weasel Wiggle. It’s not for everybody though; you have to be able to get your entire foot into your mouth.

Remembering that this is 2009 and not 1960, please elaborate your P.O.V. on how we are not all equal (with we in this case being American Citizens).

@gauldar – I highly reccomend you watch the interview because it is powerful. If you can’t at work, here is a news article about the interview:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10482634

I didn’t mean to offend you if I did. But like you said: “This is a blog, people can post whatever they heck they want.”

Thats right they sure can, including posters like myself. Nobody is forcing you to ready my comments either, yet you continue to respond… hmmm. Wouldn’t that make your argument, should there be one, “moot” as well?

“aren’t we all equal now?”

Forgive me if I am misinterpreting sarcasm for insane ignorance, but the answer to that question is no.

Higher learning, very overrated, every cliche in the book.

And don’t forget Singleton had already taken a hit with Poetic Justice.

What about Fear of a Black Hat? Anyone?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106880/

As for the list… only one I’ve seen is Higher Learning and I hated that movie with a passion.

SPOILER!!!!!!

The only thing it has going for it is that Tyra Banks dies….. except for the cheesy as hell “WWWWHHHYY?” crud…. ugh.. god I hate that movie….

1) This was the biggie – the underlying idea was that white people everywhere in modern America are responsible for all the poverty, gang violence, and ills of the black people. Furthermore, only a white politician can save them.

2) Warren Beatty rapping. Not only does he rap, but it first recorded, then horribly dubbed in, without any sense of the acoustics in the surrounding scene.

3) I know Hollywood has had older man/younger women dynamics for years, but seriously – Halle Berry in love with grandpa Beatty?

I’ll have to watch it later after work, sounds like a good interview. Thanks.

Especially if you watch Bamboozled first you will be much less tolerant of the memes in Men of Honor.

Also I think there was a senator who dared to call the senate “niggardly” and was critized by an illiterate colleague.

Also, I agree with cuimhne about Men of Honor. Retch.

This is a blog, people can post whatever they heck they want. The only person who is forcing you to read this is yourself, so your argument (should there actually be one) is moot. There is one thing I think is stupid. Aligning one’s self with an opinion of a larger group because they can’t stand on their own feet (or to avoid being attacked on one’s opinion), usually started by people who were suffering and had the right to speak their mind (or just to feel self rightous), but now only now spoken by people with no connection to those original people and do so just to play the victim. Use these moments of rememberance to reflect on the history of those who made the world what is now, but don’t use it for selfish personal gain.

Just so you know youtube.com is blocked at work so I have no way of accessing whatever thing you’re pointing to, so how about using your own words for once?

“Am I the only one that remembers it’s Black History Month? I we finally have a black president, but does that mean we don’t have black history month anymore? Last I checked, it’s still on the calendar.”

You really don’t read that as whining about black history month not getting enough press? Come on.

Morgan Freeman says this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO214IFRW1M
– it’s a link posted by vrtclsmile (thank you, vrtclsmile) in the 5th comment from the top.

Alex doesn’t sound like he’s whining, and Morgan Freeman is saying what?

Meaning to be penny pinching and miserly.

and having NO relation to the racial epithet.

Oh I also bought Dead Presidents on your recommendation.

But I like the midget Spike Lee and have bought a copy.

Though in the UK the cover is a totally dull photo from the film not the incredibly tricky “Pickaninny” one you have in the US.

I’m pretty surprised that it was released like that in the US. Not that there is anything wrong with the pic, it is just that usually there is the knee jerk reaction to things over there. Like the English prof who got fired for using the word niggardly.

He [Morgan Freeman] is a true American man [male from The United States of America] who speaks the TRUTH [tells it like it really is] no matter how much it hurts [offends, upsets, insults - you get the idea] whine-bags [complainers, whiners, moaners, nit-pickers - you get the idea] like Alex [the poster of this post].

Whewww… got it? K, thanks.

Thanks for your question to Alex, if he didn’t answer it I wouldn’t have been aware about Jewish American, Women’s History, and Native American Heritage Month.

“He is a true American man who speaks the TRUTH no matter how much it hurts whine-bags like Alex.”

Huh?

@vrtclsmile
Morgan Freeman is a genius. He is a true American man who speaks the TRUTH no matter how much it hurts whine-bags like Alex. Can we start embracing men like him instead of fools like Lil’ Wayne, Tupac, and P Diddy? I know they can make a stellar rap song but are they really better advocates for how to be a successful black man than Morgan Freeman or Bill Cosby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO214IFRW1M

…would be the one movie I’d add to that list (though maybe Bamboozled fills your Spike Lee quota). A beautiful, tense, honest film that really makes you struggle sometimes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/

May is the Jewish American Heritage Month and March is Women’s History Month (explained here).

Native American Heritage Month is November.

all these groups of protected classes have faced major struggles in america then fought against the oppression to do many great things. why aren’t they recognized as well?

aren’t we all equal now? isn’t that what Martin Luther King JR was fighting for? i was hoping now that we have a black president everyone would tone down the “please feel sorry for us because i’m black and my ancestors were slaves 150 years ago, dangit!”

i guess i was wrong.