I have seen this before. We watched a couple minutes in American Novels but I have seen the whole video before.
I find it kind of pathetic.
I absolutely HATE stereotypes. (Though if you know me, I'm a huge hypocrite, but this will be saved for later.)
Humans aren't as intelligent as we think we are. (Yes I know I don't know everything, but unlike 99% of people, I'm able to accept this and move on...)
We are weak minded. We believe everything we see, everything we hear, everything we think. My favorite quote, I don't know by who, is: "Don't believe everything you think."
But back to my reaction to this video.
I guess you could say that I'm biased living in our little bubble we call McFarland.
We have maybe 20 blacks in our school district tops. (that may be a low number, just estimating.)
What I find funny is how many of them act the way this video portrays them. I hear so many people saying they want to rise above stereotypes, yet they still act like this.
And don't give me the crap about "They lived in crap conditions and this is all they were brought up on."
I personally believe if people really want to change, they can, with exceptions to retards. (Don't even get me started, I have full rights to this word now.)
They can act any way they want, but they have no right to bitch and moan when people call them out for it. I don't care as long as they don't get in my way or bring me down in any way.
The best example I can come up with is Tyler Perry and all those obnoxious black shows like "Are We There Yet?"
Way to become slaves to entertainment. Doesn't matter if you like it or not, you've just moved from pickin' cotton to making music, TV, movies.. etc.
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While I don't agree with everything in your blog Cody, I do agree that humans are much smarter than we think they are.
ReplyDeleteI only saw a part of the movie because I had to go to my exit interview, but what I did see were stuffy UC Berkley professors going on about how white people have always brought the black man down in one way or another. We (meaning the whites) made fun of them to keep them (meaning the blacks) from rising up. Is that true or was it just that everyone was just fulfilling their stereotypes that they've had since the beginning of America? Did the whites actually do this stuff to purposely bring the black man down or did he do it without really thinking? My vote goes with the latter question, because looking back people tend to overanalyze the acts of previous generations without the benefit of actually being there. And I don't think that the white man is as horrible as we think we are.
I don't really agree with everything you said either. It's not exactly pathetic, it's just the way it was back then. I know it's going on now still, but I think stereotypes aren't as deeply rooted in our culture as they once were. Also, I know that Tyler Perry's shows and movies exploit negative black stereotypes, but there are shows that don't. Not every black person likes those shows.
ReplyDeleteYou can believe that we are a good and pure race but in the end, we'll all become cannibals.
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