My rant about how Hollywood treats Black people

My rant about how Hollywood treats Black people

Before I get started, I want to apologize to the other groups of people for not addressing how Hollywood portrays them. I know Hollywood has done this to them as well. However, I should let someone from that group speak on their behalf because I don't know much about other cultures to comment on them.

Hollywood is proof that racism is not dead, because I'm tired of seeing Black people getting mistreated. Here are some examples on the show Gray’s Anatomy Isaiah Washington was fired for calling one of his cast members the F word and he got fired for it after he apologized. So far Bradley Cooper use that word in The Hangover, Jennifer Aniston use that word in Horrible Bosses and Adam Sandler use that word in I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry and they didn’t get in trouble for it. Another example is The Oscars, Denzel Washington didn’t win an Oscar for Malcolm X, Remember the Titans or in the Great Debaters however, he did win an Oscar for playing a dirty cop in Training Day. Also, Halle Barry won an Oscar for playing I don’t know what in Monster’s Ball and Octavia Spencer won an Oscar for playing a maid in The Help, do you see a pattern?                            

  I mean look at how they react to this. How can they be proud of this?

The Oscars might as well give an Oscar to a Black kid for being disrespectful to his or her parents. I'm glad that Hollywood made a movie out of The Hunger Games because of that movie broth out racism or ignorance. This movie was based on a book and fans were mad that a character named Rue for having brown skin even thaw the book describes her having brown skin and eyes on page 45. Then they post twits on Twitter about this, and they use the N-word more than once. Plus, they say things like when I found out that Rue was black her death wasn’t as sad and she should have been blond hair girl with blue eyes. 

The reason why this bothers me is because representation matters. I find it both funny and insulting that we mostly see Caucasians playing the hero or a good leading character considering all the messed-up things they have done to Black people throughout history. Whoever's running Hollywood has a problem with brown or dark skin people playing these roles. I'm surprised that no one complain that Nick Fury is black in The Avengers, despite the fact that he was originally white. We had movies where black people played superheroes like Meteor Man, Steel, Blank Man and Hancock. The issue with those films was the writing and production. Why can’t brown or dark skin writers write about things other than slavery, family drama, crimes and relationship problems, Yes! They are issues in our community but learn a new tune. 

I was surprised that a black person didn’t write or star in The Hangover. The only good movie with an all-black cast that I can think of is Boyz in the Hood, because that movie was about hope not just for Black people but anyone who grew up in a bad environment. Another thing that bothers me is that in Horror films Black people are the first ones to get killed or don’t survive despite the fact that they run from danger. This also happens in films that are not in the horror genre regardless if the movie was good or not with films like Transformers, I am Legend, X-Men First Class, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and The Dark Knight. Also, Hollywood stereo cast brown or dark skin people for cheap laughs. 

This is one of the many reasons why I don’t like Tyler Perry, I mean what's so funny about him crossdressing, acting like a fool and shooting people? Since we're on the subject of crossdressing how come we don't see white men doing this? What makes this worse is he gives bad advice and jokes about relationship issues. You can’t have it both ways either you're the voice of reason or juvenile, you act juvenile so you don’t get to say it wrong to do such and such. Then again that's not far from the truth. OK I'm being unfair maybe this is how Hollywood sees Black people if that's the case then we can't be angry with them. I mean I've seen a lot of Black Americans acting up outside my home and on the news. Plus, can you expect someone who isn't Black to represent Black culture? 

Well, if Hollywood isn't racist then why did they stereotype Europe Americans as terrorists or have Americans view them as terrorists? Also, why didn't they cast an Asian man to play the villain in Iron Man 3? The director said that he didn't want the Mandarin in the movie because he didn't want to offend Asians. OK, what made him think that casting someone that isn't Asian is going to make it better, and if you didn't want to offend Asian than why did you pick the Mandarin to be the bad guy? Brown and dark skin celebrities are making this worst by agreeing to play these roles by doing that you're telling the world that you like being viewed as a stereotype. If that's the case then you have no right to be upset when were not respected because you didn't have to take those roles. Samuel L Jackson was in a movie where he was territories a couple because they are an interracial couple and his character’s wife cheated on him with a Caucasian man. Also, in an interview, he was egging the interviewer on to say the N-word. 

This is the interview

Why would he do that? Also, Tasha Smith why are you OK with being portrayed as unlady like, I mean she's like that in ATL and Why did I get married? Another thing, why is it OK to show a Black woman with a Caucasian man but not a Black man with a Caucasian woman? This is another problem in our community, I'm getting tired of brown skin women calling brown skin men sell out for dating outside their race for two reasons. 

First of all, Black women do it too, Black men should go where they feel wanted. Second is President Obama, Black women love President Obama despite the fact he's mixed and was raised by his Caucasian mother and grandmother. They consider him black despite the fact he's mixed, if that’s the case if you paint you house green you should say it blue because it took blue and yellow to create that color. 

It bugs me that they protest against Black men for having a non-Black woman on TV or in real life, why aren’t they protesting the network VH1 or Tyler Perry they're making brown or dark skin women look bad. Disney had made two movies where there's a Black princess with an non-Black prince, Don’t get me wrong I’m not against interracial dating however the downside of it is if were casual with it we'll be extinct. Black consumers have to blame themselves for why Hollywood portray us the way they do. I mean you can't say that the characters in Transformers, The Phantom Menaces. 

 or videos like this offense people and then have them be popular and make a lot of money.

Look I didn't mean to come off as entitled, whoever's running Hollywood should have the right to portray people as they want. However, that has its limits. I mean when you have a certain group in your movie or TV show you have a responsibility to give them good representation. I would rather see no representation of Black people than you not representing them properly. Don't act like slavery, Jim Crow, redlining and blockbusting have nothing to do with why Black Americans are so messed up. We can do something about this like going on strike against Hollywood. Schools and septa went on strike why can we? We deserve better representation, Oscar-worthy roles, survive in Horror films, see both genders dating in or outside their race and write for other genres. If Hollywood won't do that for us, then we have to do it for ourselves. We need to start thinking about our legacy, how many of our Black youth are striving to be Doctors, Lawyers and engineers? Dr. King, Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, Malcolm X and other famous Black people didn’t fought and die for us to sell our souls for money. 

P.S. don't give me that Hollywood is a money-making business excuse there are films that didn't make a lot of money and still have gotten sequels, like the terminator, the karate kid, RoboCop, Ace Ventura and Friday. What do you have to say about that?