Michelle,
I told you!!! Was he not tasty looking?? Gee whiz, the up close shots were the best ones!

Imh and T3, please excuse my ignorance but I never knew that the Willie Lynch Letter was most likelya a hoax. But this piece was interesting on that front: http://manuampim.com/lynch_hoax1.html

Michelle, i’m not saying that you are wrong but the following quote may or may not add perspective to the “sorrow in your heart”:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

- Socrates (470 – 399 BC)

LOL

I want my black citizens to vote for me.

Why did I get You started?

I think for the most part their generation made great monetary advances and societal advances, its just, what do you expect to happen when you have feminism going around. Its happening to all of America, you have women putting men down and wanting to be the head, so you have more guys saying screw it and leaving. Then women feeling their boys and girls up to hate men, and then you have a self-perpetuating cycle, my theory.

I think this is why you have a lot of gays coming up in the hood. There mothers got some of these boys thinking like women, letting boys do hair and makeup and crap.

I understand. Things have just changed so much. I wish some things would just go back to the way it use to be. The pride is gone. Standards have dropped. It’s all about the money. Damn working hard. I even appreciated the times when men wore suits and ladies wore dresses. I know I’m going to catch it for making that comment.

I don’t anything has changed that much, except the break down of the family unit. Its larger now than it was back then. I think if you go into any household with a strong male presence, sons will still talk to their fathers with respect, that isn’t a thing of the past. I think the problem is there just aren’t that many households with both a mom and dad anymore, and that goes for all races, not just black.

I checked out the movie and WOW, you guys were all correct. The movie was great. From the true story line to the acting, it was all a treat. The movie left me with one question. What has happened to us as a people? We have fallen so far. This movie should be shown in every school. The respect James Jr. showed to his father is now just a thing of the past. While I was very proud watching the movie, I left with sorrow in my heart.

Miranda,

Yes, Henry is fine!

Don’t be jealous of me because I have the franchise tag along with Cosby and the rest.

@Poet, I don’t think Dmac have much trade value, I say we waive his ass.

Oh, and Dmac is gonna wait for it on cable. No surprise there. God shines only upon those who can see the light. Poor Dmac would be blinded by the high beam. (If this dude is truly Black, which of course I doubt, I vote we call Chappelle and trade him in the next “race draft” for Modi or DZirin!)

Check out James O. Breeden’s “Advice Among Masters: The Ideal in Slave Management in the Old South.” link below

We need to respect ourselves enough to discard bullshit in whatever guise it appears – and then move forward to do the inquiry correctly. Without proper inquiry, we forfeit the right to criticize, convince and convert.

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/BRS%252f.aspx

I don’t place much stock in the willie lynch letter, and I think the communist sentiments were more dominant in the north, but aside from those items, I think the time period was accurately depicted.

It would be wonderful if all american would see the movie, but americans don’t roll that way.

It also avoided the common played-out hollywood formulas of movies of depicting the segregated south such as whites as saviors to helpless black victims (see Mississippie Burning) and the usual overly simplistic storylines of good vs. evil. This went much deeper than that. It brilliantly depicted the physical and emotional toll of daily indignities faced, and how those barriers were practically and psychologically navigated on multiple levels. Yet, the movie does not come off as dated or and its themes no less relevant to today. In the end, it simultaneously takes the viewer through a well-balanced intellectual and emotional journey through Jim Crow.

…I normally don’t gush this much about a movie and but it was just THAT good. I haven’t seen too many movies this year to make a full assessment on Best Picture winner, but this should be right in the middle of that discussion. But to discuss it simply in the role of “cinema” grossly minimizes the film’s importance. EVERY American should see this in the theater as it deserves box office dollars, and every high school teacher in America should take their class to see this.

Anthony G, thanks for posting this…

The Great Debaters is a must see…..you will love it.

The Great Debaters does make you think. And once it comes to cable in 3 or 4 years, I hope it’s not too late for DavidMac. Thanks AG!

I wanted to check out the movie yesterday, but it’s not playing near me. I’ll have to wait until Sun.

I have been both part of the problem and the solution. The mind set has to change. I really wish I could provide the answer.

Seriously, if we can’t answer the question – we’re back to square one. I’d like to hear your perspective – and as you correctly state – “slavery” is only a small part of the answer.

“ApeBoy rides friedman’s coat tails all the way to the coon show of economic dependence – story at 11.”