The Banjo which gives C& W its distinctive sound is actually an African Instrument brought here by Slaves Only the fiddle is European

"She revels in contrarianism for its own sake without thinking about the implications of those positions. She reveals herself daily to be a simplistic and unnuanced thinker who doesn't care about the damage the size of her platform can do"

Well If by " bringing blatant racism back " you mean latent and hard core racist are losing their mind over a brown man in the Whitehouse ...then yes

Actually I think you are an awful person for writing this but it doesn't justify you getting gunned down in the street either

I believe that Whoopi is suffering from Ugly woman syndrome a condition that knows no race , I had a white principal in high school who had it as well they don't think they are attractive and hate/resent all women because of it

This is Why I miss the good old days when movie stars were a mystery her performance in Colour purple is one of my favorite of all time but now I literally despise her

Sad but kinna true America is just in denial about who they are and every now and again they are forced to do something as it looks bad when they are busy policing the rest of world

Why didn't she just say black people need to know their place and stop with all the sass and reckless eyeballing (actual crimes under Jim Crow )

Will Zoe Saldana play Michelle LOL????

Kara

No Kara I disagree ..it highlights the hypocrisy of all those people (some posters here included ) who blithely trot out Well if he wasn't breaking the Law .. well if he hadn't resisted ..well if he was respectful blah blah he wouldn't be dead

is this the same Hunger Games where even though the book clearly says Rue was black . Tons of White people took to social media to express their disgust at an actual black girl being cast in the role and even going as far as they felt less remorseful when she died knowing she was black ???

All minority groups can and should speak up or themselves

The real problem is that its people like some of the Gawker commentators who will apply any pretzel type logic to rationalize the muder of the dangerous black man child teen that are sitting on these juries

My relationship with Chris Rock is complicated to me sometimes he's funny sometimes hes not sometime I like him sometimes I don't and sometimes he really is smarty and insightful ..and sometimes hes not

As in Demon Hulk Michael Brown ??

And this comes as a surprise to NO ONE

Thanks to cable , BET is broadcast in Canada , UK , Caribbean , some parts of Africa to young impressionable black minds everywhere . I did kinna like AJ and Free but one of my Biggest take away from that show was how a BLACK TV station in America managed to so rigorously apply the brown paper bag test for all of…

I will admit I had some misgivings about this same issue when I first heard of this project some mths ago but love the director (Gina s)work so was still kinna interested

Isn't a whole a sum of its parts ?Aren't trends shaped by individual events ? So yes this movie and this casting is a part of the whole and part of the trend and fair game . I cant help notice your insistence on using pejorative terms Angry/ Blast ??about my critique that contained not one inflammatory word ???