Black Movies Need a Renaissance

The American movie consumer has been screaming at studios for years. No, we DON’T like overpowered, poorly written female characters with no flaws beating up likeable male characters. And no, we don’t like our treasured movie franchises being vandalized for the sake of woke ideology.

Luckily, the studios have finally listened. We’ve been consistently voting with our wallets and the lawyers and money men have clearly snapped the whip, bringing the idealogue directors, producers, and actors to heel.

Nice.

But since we’re making changes in entertainment, there’s another pressing issue that I’d like to fix, if you don’t mind.

The Vicious Slander of Black American Culture

Since 2016, mainstream media has taken a nasty turn in its portrayal of Black Americans,Music, film, popular culture. Somehow, every media outlet gave us booty shaking female rappers, criminalized, sexualized black children spewing filth on YouTube, and sub-80 IQ adults proudly proclaiming their past (and current) crimes. And then they called it Black American culture.

No. It isn’t. And it never has been.

Before I get too deep into this, I know there are some melanated brethren (and neurotic white people) who will take issue with my pasty ass even daring to talk about this. I don’t care.

I do not see you as separate from white Americans. We don’t do “blood and soil” here. You are my people and a part of my culture. So I’m not going to apologize for my glow-in-the-dark, red-headed self having an opinion. Those days are over.

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