This movie is indeed a preparation for race war. I think it's always very touchy and a sensitive topic for people -- but especially when a WHITE person decides to take on the slavery topic and make a movie or show about it. It makes some black people feel uncomfortable, like they shouldn't be doing it, simply because they're white and because it was whites who enslaved blacks in the first place so therefore some people probably feel it should be off limits to them.
But I have no doubt in my mind that if it was a black person behind the wheel making this film, Spike Lee wouldn't have AS much of a problem with it being made. And probably wouldn't be as much controversy. I think it's moreso the fact that it's a white person taking on the slavery topic. Which is always touchy and sensitive. Kind of a double edged sword, or a catch-22 for them (whites).
Friday, January 4th 2013 at 10:17AM
Siebra Muhammad
