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Why, look at the peaceful, happy Negros, living an idyllic life

posted 9 years ago by jgroub
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. . . far removed from any fighting, hard work, or enslavement. Why, I'll just send my family there to live with them. Those happy Negroes will just take care of my family out of the goodness of their kind hearts - feed them, clothe them, put them up in an extra hut with extra furniture that just happens to be here. And all this for no money whatsoever!

Oh, and look, here are some of my sharecropping Negroes, who were free, but worked the land with me, instead of for me. Me, a nasty evil slaveholder? No, even though I can't build a stupid rocking chair, I invented sharecropping Negroes 80 years before the Civil War!

Why, practically no one in this entire movie is a slaveowner! Look at all the darkies, well-dressed, free, making their own decisions about their lives, happily earning their own money!

Yeah, right. What a complete whitewash. (Pun intended.)

The portrayal of the black/white relations in this movie is beyond laughable. As if Washington would ever issue an order permitting blacks to gain freedom by fighting for a year. As if Southerners would ever stand for armed slaves - that was their absolute greatest fear, an armed slave uprising!

What a gigantic crock of sh!t.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] stickman38 (3358) 10 months ago

I think this post is way too old for a reply, the OP is a transferred post from the old IMDB boards.

Anyhow, on a side note: 3000 free black people owned 12,000 slaves, that's not exactly minuscule like a previous poster said. And over 200 countries have practiced slavery at some point in their history and in fact, it still goes on in the certain parts of the world today. I'm sick of people bringing this up like it only happened in America and was last year or something. Its causing a lot of division in this great nation.

Every American is strongly against slavery today, even back then there were what you call "abolitionists" which were mostly white people that were against slavery. Why exactly do people want to keep speaking as though we must pay for the "sins of the father" or that every historical movie has to show blacks getting tortured by whites, seriously, its kinda dumb. If you want to see this, there are plenty of films to choose from.

In regards to this film, it's been a while since I've seen it, but I do know that black people did fight in the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. Sides were chosen and they had different motives for participating in these wars. So, from a certain point of view, this film might not be all that inaccurate.

[–] Tam87 (1267) 5 months ago

This film is a summer blockbuster about the american war for independence. It's not a story about slavery, for which you can watch a 1000 films about.

You have to remember that it's white people who finance, write, direct, star in and produce films like The Patriot. They are trying to sell it to an audience which is mostly white. No one wants to see a summer blockbuster showing whites with slaves and talking about it in detail.

If you're pissed about the depiction of black people in a white made film, then lobby for black people to make a film about their perspective of the american war of Independence

[–] johnmiller (3940) 5 months ago

Wait, there were black people in this movie? 😂