Why Black People Need To Create Their Own Film/Media Infrastructure

Thing is, white people look out for white people — as they should.
one of the things they do successfully to the black "community" specifically

is make sure so few of us have

dog eat dog becomes a way of life

and if u happen to get any u hang onto it like your life depended on it

or till the newest charger or spinnin rims is released

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one of the things they do successfully to the black "community" specifically

is make sure so few of us have

dog eat dog becomes a way of life

and if u happen to get any u hang onto it like your life depended on it

or till the newest charger or spinnin rims is released

:cool:



Barely 50yrs out of slavery, Black People in America founded towns and accompanying newspapers. Black people invented items as varied as the mailbox and thegas mask....black people even had anautomobile company, something that we have yet to replicate.

And most importantly,black people had film production companies and Black-owned theaters (over 400 by some accounts)where their movies were shown. Due to Jim Crow, why because black people had to.

Just google : William Foster
 
where is all that shit now bruh

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In 1992, one of the great filmmaking stories of our generation is how the Black community of entertainers and athletes (Cosby, Oprah , Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Prince, Janet Jackson and Peggy Cooper-Cafritz, etc) collectively came to help rescue Spike Lee’s “MALCOLM X” when the film went $5 million over budget.

Yet in 2017 we can’t collectively come together to produce and exhibit our own films?

Read this:

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-21/entertainment/ca-469_1_spike-lee
 
I'll just post what I said about this earlier:

this is why there can never be a black controlled entertainment industry because people are too concerned about getting love from cacs and believing that the grass is greener on the side.

I've fantasized and scenario'd for a while what your talking about and the unfortunately the conclusion I keep coming to is..Black controlled entertainment industry wouldn't start off like the Negro Leagues...it WOULD BE the Negro Leagues.

And like the MLB, Hollywood would marginalize it and use it as farm system to cherry pick the best talent all the while blocking distribution or them being distribution for it which makes it a subsidiary of cac industries. Blacks would use it to build up a resume just so they can walk across the street to get those higher paying gigs in hollywood. They would rather fly coach in the white mans plane that sit in first class in their own.

There would very little loyalty and as the more popular more talented blacks are offered more money by cacs to come over the fence they would say its just business draining black hollywood of its best more popular talent (becuz we know an aspect of their deal would be youre either play with us or you don't..ever)

And the Black Hollywood would go the way the Negro Leagues went and eventually peter out after 10 or so years or stay marginalized until its novelty factor was no longer viable.

and this shows how kendrick lamar is on the road to the sell out...last year was complaints and this year is compensation...give the negroes extra to keep them compliant. It doesn't mean anything really but a little bit of acknowledgement from the white establishment goes a long way and they know it.
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I'll just post what I said about this earlier:

this is why there can never be a black controlled entertainment industry because people are too concerned about getting love from cacs and believing that the grass is greener on the side.

I've fantasized and scenario'd for a while what your talking about and the unfortunately the conclusion I keep coming to is..Black controlled entertainment industry wouldn't start off like the Negro Leagues...it WOULD BE the Negro Leagues.

And like the MLB, Hollywood would marginalize it and use it as farm system to cherry pick the best talent all the while blocking distribution or them being distribution for it which makes it a subsidiary of cac industries. Blacks would use it to build up a resume just so they can walk across the street to get those higher paying gigs in hollywood. They would rather fly coach in the white mans plane that sit in first class in their own.

There would very little loyalty and as the more popular more talented blacks are offered more money by cacs to come over the fence they would say its just business draining black hollywood of its best more popular talent (becuz we know an aspect of their deal would be youre either play with us or you don't..ever)

And the Black Hollywood would go the way the Negro Leagues went and eventually peter out after 10 or so years or stay marginalized until its novelty factor was no longer viable.

and this shows how kendrick lamar is on the road to the sell out...last year was complaints and this year is compensation...give the negroes extra to keep them compliant. It doesn't mean anything really but a little bit of acknowledgement from the white establishment goes a long way and they know it.
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There will always be more good Black actors than available roles in Hollywood.

Hollywood isn't desperately searching for Black talent. At best, they're keeping an eye out for the next Will/Denzel in charisma or an actress with that Halle Berry aesthetic. Success with Black audiences means very little to Hollywood. How they play in Peoria will always be the question and that limits the opportunities.

Black directors and screenwriters are only useful when it comes to black stories, but sometimes you can bypass them too!

The meritocracy that exists in professional sports is nowhere to be found in Hollywood, so I don't think we'd have to worry about losing the best of the best of the best in a Black controlled entertainment industry.

It would be nice to see some kind of set up that nurtures black actors, directors, and writers. Something like the old studio system that would sign talent to multi-picture deals and develop projects for them.
 
There will always be more good Black actors than available roles in Hollywood.

Hollywood isn't desperately searching for Black talent. At best, they're keeping an eye out for the next Will/Denzel in charisma or an actress with that Halle Berry aesthetic. Success with Black audiences means very little to Hollywood. How they play in Peoria will always be the question and that limits the opportunities.

Black directors and screenwriters are only useful when it comes to black stories, but sometimes you can bypass them too!

The meritocracy that exists in professional sports is nowhere to be found in Hollywood, so I don't think we'd have to worry about losing the best of the best of the best in a Black controlled entertainment industry.

It would be nice to see some kind of set up that nurtures black actors, directors, and writers. Something like the old studio system that would sign talent to multi-picture deals and develop projects for them.
Its all about ownership bro
 
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Charlie Wilson's War is a great film.

Problem is black stories aren't that profitable.

So if you are looking for maximum profit, you have to slice the budget... Unless this group of investors is committed to telling the stories without making a ton of $. Black movies do no numbers overseas. You don't get to Oprah, Will Smith, Magic Johnson financial level without being about your money so...
Well, now we know that mindset was all bunk and bullshit. That myth that we'd been fed has been obliterated, not just busted.
 
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