Get Slave Fresh For Summer

rickysrose wrote: i saw the trailer for belle I'll see it if the pining for white acceptance isn't overbearing... I got that vibe from the trailer  So my spirit was right to avoid 12 yrs a slave? The one exceptional black and the white savior are two themes that I can not abide

SamoneLenior wrote: well it was a white man that helped him regain his freedom....I'm not sure how you can avoid that but a mulatto trying be accepted by whites I will pass rather watch Queen

Do you honestly believe that I would actually dig a movie where this is the central plot?

The movie is dope because she doesn't play the TROPE that Halle 'yessa massa' Berry played in Queen.

There is so much more dignity for Black/biracial women in this movie then there has been for others because....

1. It's about her. She is the lead, she is the star. You feel HER pain and you're concerned with HER plight

2. Her father claims her (this is a central theme in the movie) whereas her full white cousin is not claimed by her father

3. While this could be considered a romance movie, I personally felt that romance was in the backdrop of the main issue. The main issue was the immorality of Black bodies being considered valueless lives but valuable cargo

4. She doesn't beg to be accepted. She is accepted (though not entirely) by many and when she's not she certainly doesn't beg

5. She is not simply pretty, she is smart and an activist at heart. She is the real hero of the story, the Whites are just a vessel


In 12 Years a Slave, black/biracial women are in the background abused and used. Their feelings, trials and tribulations are not central to the story. It felt like slave p0rn. Very melodramatic with no real purpose. Not the worst slave movie but not the best either

indiecat wrote: I didn't like 12 years a slave that much. I like the butler way better. Belle looks good , but yah I feel the biracial lead will draw white people to the theater and maybe it makes it look like being biracial is better than being fully black.

I didn't realize Belle was out.  I'll prolly go see it.  It didn't seem to me that she was begging for acceptance in the trailer.  I thought her father claimed her but his family didn't and she just dealt with it.  Wasn't some dude asking why she didn't eat dinner with her family and she said because it wasn't proper or summin'? 

So this has a black triad?  I'll most likely go see it then.  Put my money where my mouth is.


Edited by newdiva1 - May 20 2014 at 11:17pm

That's messed up!