If you are able to get your hands on unedited versions of Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny and other early cartoons, you will find caricatures of Black people. In early movies and TV shows, Black people and other people of color played stereotypical roles. Predominantly White audiences would not accept Black people in serious roles. [...]
“I don’t know about you, but I think about my Black maleness everywhere I go: walking down the street, in elevators, in stores, at the gym, in crowds, on trains, on airplanes, around other Black men, and especially around large crowds of white people. Even as a thirty-eight-year-old man, I can’t seem to shake [...]
This discussion is one part of a series of discussions continuously occurring with my college brothers. Please enjoy the discussion and add your comments. MarcQus: Solstar to your earlier point; I posted this on facebook two weeks ago from one of the books I am reading. When popular culture enthusiastically embraces and romanticizes the gangsta-thug, [...]
Check out the prologue to the PBS special “Slavery By Another Name”. The full documentary is available at http://video.pbs.org/
