This is the appropriate place to go after a movie that showed no regard for black history of 1968 and no regard for black citizens who wish to take their kids to see a movie where black people are not invisible.
Well then there is a simple solution: they should take their children to see ANOTHER movie. I don't go to children's animated films to be confronted with American black history and figures like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. It's the same as taking your white children to a movie and complaining that Michiel de Ruyter isn't featured prominently. WHY NO DUTCH CULTURE IN MAH MOVIE???
This is a movie about odd little yellow creatures and ridiculous supervillains. It has barely any basis in real history and certainly shouldn't be used as some sort of vehicle to showcase the history of ethnic minorites in one specific country on Earth.
Because let's face it, you don't give Jack **** about the history of the Slavs or the Vietnamese or the French or the Turks. This is just an angry rant about the supposed snubbing of black people in the USA, a country where most of the film doesn't even take place to begin with.
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Furrerd
9 years ago
Your analogy about the Dutch was ridiculous and logical fallacies of false equivalencies and faulty comparison. Michiel de Ruyter was from 1600's and fought against the British in the Americas and British Isles. His descendants in the U.S. are very few and very white. While the descendants of African slaves make up to 60 million citizens of the U.S. in full or partial admixture.
Black people are citizens in the U.S. AND Britain in 1968 and they had 6 characters onscreen for about 10 seconds. Blacks of Britain were also snubbed along with black music that was very popular in 1968.
Diana Ross and the Supremes were performing for the Royals and there were tears shed over MLK's assassination in 1968.
I was not asking for any black history to be shown and black American's spend more per capita than white Americans at the theaters so their money should get representation. IF they actually pull off the boycotts that are being discussed in planning groups on Facebook then the movie industry will see a terrible winter this year...
-I'm asking for black faces to have been seen among the villain convention.
-I'm asking for a black actor to have had a speaking role in the movie.
-I'm asking for a central character to have had a black or brown face.
-I'm asking for some popular Motown hits to be played in a movie like this.
If you can name the Slav, Vietnamese, French (they are white and of the original colonizers in the U.S. so that'd be impossible) or Turkish fight for civil rights movements that occurred in the U.S. then please do so. 1968 was a pivotal year for the Black Civil Rights movement and not for any other ethnic group in the US of that time.
Let's face it. YOU don't give a *beep* about black people and prefer the company of only other whites and to have your TV shows and movies with blacks whitewashed out....
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