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Mr. Bizkits said:
Ima check out, I'm just tired of seeing us as slaves.

Can we be seen as kings and rulers for a change?
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I don't need for a hoodrat to call me a king and make excuses. That's why our community is so weak. You want to be served and waited on hand and foot.

Its also weak because you have brothas 40 plus wanting to be catered to through the t.v.

When they should be out leading in a positive direction not crying to be seen as a king on t.v. This poor parenting falls at the feet of your parents and grand parents. They didn't tell you were special coming up so the opinions of Black or whites shouldn't matter.

I'm doing my part I can't be everywhere.
 
I am tired of Slave Entertainment.

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Stars of 'Underground' Dispel Notion That House Slaves Had It Easier

The much-anticipated slave series "Underground" is set to premiere, and it's sure to stir the conversation on race in America.

The show's stars Jurnee Smollet-Bell and Aldis Hodge say it was challenging portraying field and house slaves in the upcoming TV drama. The division between house and field slaves has, in many regards, spilled over into the Black community's overall hangups around skin color and notions of "light skin privilege."

During an interview with The Grio, Smollett-Bell, who stars as Rosa Lee, disputed the myth that slaves working in the house didn’t suffer at the hands of slave masters, or somehow had it easier.

"We feel that residue of it…that division even now,” Smollett-Bell said. “If you were a slave you were a slave, and living in the house, your life was not your own just like your life was not your own if you lived in the field. You had absolutely no right to be your own person, and how suffocating that is. Then you were so alone because you didn’t fit in.




“One thing that I read in the slave narratives were a few people working in the house actually envied those working in the [field] at times, not for the labor they had to do but for the fact that they were able to build some sort of community,” Smollett-Bell added.

Hodge, who plays a field slave, said that the decision to separate field from house slaves was tactic used to keep the enslaved from communicating and, subsequently, from empowering one another.


“What that mentality is it’s strategy,” Hodge said. “It’s separation because there’s so much more strength in numbers. ‘I’m gonna separate this group over here and this group over here so that when you come together you’ll never bond. Because the slaves in the house know differently than the slaves in the field. If that information crosses together, we’re done.'”

"Underground" stars Smollett-Bell, Hodge, Adina Porter, Amirah Vann, Alano Miller and Renwick D. Scott, with a guest starring role by Jussie Smollett.
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