Why I'm Tired of Seeing White People on the Big Screen

[smokedacane]

Some will call it white guilt and a few others will call it liberal driven rhetoric, but she raises points we have all observed.

I'm tired of seeing white people on the silver screen.

First, let me note that I am white. I am a white woman who goes to the theater to see probably a dozen films (if not more) in a given year, a white woman who readily consumes TV shows and series and often blogs/tweets about them. I love film. I love what Hollywood could be, but I must say that I don't love what it is, and that is a machine generating story after story in which the audience is asked to root for a white (usually male) hero over and over and over (and over) again. I'm tired. I'm tired of directors pretending that white actors are the default and that people of color are a distraction when it comes to filmmaking. I'm tired of black women in Hollywood being relegated to roles of slaves and "the help" over and over again. I'm tired of films convincing themselves that they are taking on something fresh and new, the likes of which the world has never seen, but in actuality adhering to tired tropes and stereotypes.

One example that comes to mind is Avatar, a "groundbreaking" film about aliens and humanity, which, underneath it all, is the same old White Savior story. But more recently is Lucy, the film starring Scarlett Johansson in which a woman named Lucy evolves and is able to use 100 percent of her brain's capacity after she unwittingly ingests a massive amount of drugs.

Lucy is about what humankind could be -- it's about possibilities. As Lucy's brainpower grows stronger and the volume of knowledge she is able to access increases, she delivers monologues about how little humans understand about death, existence, and the universe, mediating on time and history. The film likes to think of itself as reimagining everything that we think we know about humanity, and presents to us their vision of what the most evolved woman on earth looks like:

A blonde white woman.

See, I just can't get right with that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivi...seei_b_5627318.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

 

[stretchwallz]

I feel the same way thanks CAC

 

[kefta]

Context of racism/white supremacy. This is the major problem on the UNIverse...!

 

[SKATTA]

Hence the reason ive tuned television out a few yrs back.

only watches sports. and whatever else i need, i watch or read online.

 

[2 ONE 3]

Hence the reason ive tuned television out a few yrs back.

only watches sports. and whatever else i need, i watch or read online.

This.

Only summer movies I've seen are planet of the apes

And saw the purge today

 

[Lexx Diamond]

I feel the same way thanks CAC

Cosign. My TV is off right now because I get tired of seeing and hearing white people. TVONE is cool be sometimes the shucking and jiving gets to be bit too much with some shows.

 

[HAR125LEM]

Oddly enough,

I've had quite a few White people say this to me over the years.

I guess they even get tired of themselves after a while.

 

[kinglickk]

I'm tired of seeing them everywhere and have been for a while now. I avoid their eye contact at every turn when they are trying to be friendly. I only look at them to intimidate them. When they say random shit to me in public, I pretend like I don't hear them or respond with sarcasm. BUT I like fucking white bitches though.

 

[bionicbrown]

I'm tired of seeing them everywhere and have been for a while now. I avoid their eye contact at every turn when they are trying to be friendly. I only look at them to intimidate them. When they say random shit to me in public, I pretend like I don't hear them or respond with sarcasm. BUT I like fucking white bitches though.

I'm the same but I like fucking black women tho.

 

[World B Free]

Oddly enough,

I've had quite a few White people say this to me over the years.

I guess they even get tired of themselves after a while.

What a luxury!.....It's like puffy's adage "More Money, More Problems"

 

[THE DRIZZY]

Living in a so called white land this is what we see. I agree with the sentiment.

 

[BigATLslim]

Just read this article, came to see if it was posted here on BGOL, and like "we" always say,"They ain't gon' listen 'til a white person says it."

She just came clean in this article and I don't believe it was white guilt...she just told the truth from her anthropological background of FACTS.