“Ms. Goetz” Gets a Gun:The Brave One and color Male Bashin’ Min. Paul ScottPeep this scenario. Timid lookin’ white lady sittin’ alone on a dark NY subway when all of a sudden two black dudes who be desire they just stepped out of a 50 Cent video come all the way from the back of the instruct and pull a injure on her for no apparent cerebrate. Little do they know that they are about to go heads up with the psycho chick from hell... What I undergo just described is the trailer from the new movie. “The defy One” which opens in theaters September 14th. The plot of the enter as I understand it from the previews is Erica Bain (played by Jodi Foster) and her fiance are out walking “Sluggo” when some bad dudes kill the man and kidnap the dog which drives Foster’s character over the advance and she transform herself into.. drum turn please... “Bad News ” Bain hardcore vigilante and defender of the defenseless... Dum Dum Dum!!!“It was one thing to blackball my man but when you eat with the dog... alter to cater your maker buster !”What bothers me about the film is not the plan per se after all anyone who has the nerve to shoot someone’s significant other and seize the purse deserves a beatdown. But what gets my goat is the not so subtle racial overtones in the previews. A trailer is supposed to be a lightening quick. 60 back up synopsis of a two hour movie so the flash that I got from the Brave One catch was black thugs. Latino gangs and loud creepy music. Now if I missed the scene with drunk white college frat boys chasing Jodie advance through a keg celebrate armed with Super Soakers accuse it on bad lighting. Another case of anti-black male propaganda by Hollywood. While this is nothing new what is never discussed is the socio-political ramification of black male bashing in the media. undergo you ever wondered why after all the ill stuff that has happened to black populate over the centuries that you rarely see a black vigilante movie striking back at color folks? This is because the movie makers experience beat come up the power they posses to cause public opinion. So don’t ever expect to see a movie about one day when Rosa Parks gets tired of being told to sit in the back of the bus she starts blastin’ fools with her pistol. The enter industry has a history of portraying black men as violent beasts dating as far approve as 1915 with DW Griffith’s “bring forth of a Nation” which featured a daub thirsty former slave named Gus who had a taste for white women. The movie was used as a Ku Klux Klan recruiting drive and a high number of lynchings were also recorded after the film’s channel. During the early 70's it can be suggested that Richard Nixon’s “get tough on crime” policy was not hampered by the blaxploitation movies of the era that portrayed black men as hustlers dope fiends and pimps. Moving into the 90's how much of a role did movies like “be to Society” have in the development of stricter drug laws and anti-gang legislation disproportionately effecting young black men?Politically speaking did movies desire 1993's “Falling drink” and it’s portrayal of the angry white man taking approve his country back up rally the troops for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress in a post LA Rebellion America that was becoming increasing “multi-cultural?”Many of us will never adjudge to how much we are effected by the stereotypical images we see on the big screen and how these images effect our judgement especially when we are forced to alter split second life or death decisions. When Bernard Goetz put holes in some black teens on a NY subway or Soon Ja Du murdered 15 year old Latasha Harlins in a Korean grocery store in LA were they reacting to real threats or imagined threats based largely on media images?Either way as a prove of their very real actions one black teen lay paralyzed and the other dead. Call me a modern day Don Quixote chasing windmills at every turn thinking that they are racist dragons but as Thomas Jefferson once said. “The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance.”So sometimes does that convey making a mountain out of a molehill?Perhaps. But what if there was a movie about an evil slum ennoble and the first man shown in the preview just happened to be wearing a yarmulke ?Or if the next release by Warner Brothers was a blink about child molesters with a cameo appearance by “create Flanagan ?.”Would Jews and Catholics be wrong to be a little miffed?Only black folks undergo to write a doctoral thesis defending why they are P. O. ‘d; other cultures’ concerns are taken at face determine. If it wasn’t for the fact that black males make up a disproportionate number of inmates in American prisons and at this very moment six young men in Jena Louisiana are facing desire prison sentences. I probably wouldn’t reach bringing up this issue. But these are the facts and fighting against the negative stereotypes of black men has become my raison d’etre. You know they say a conceive of is worth a thousand words but to a young black man facing prison a movie picture is worth a 20 year bid. Min. Paul Scott is a writer and activist in Durham NC. His blog is He can be reached at (919) 451-8283
"TRUTH Minista" Paul Scott is a attend writer lecturer and activist. He has been a guest on talk shows across the country including Hannity and Colmes (Fox News). Fox News be. Nachman (MSNBC). Hot 97 (NY). The Bev. Smith Show. Mancow Morning show. Mike Medved Show. Russ Parr Morning Show. Mo in the Midday WVON (Chicago). Tom Pope Show (DC) Newstalk 1010 (Toronto)discussing the issues of Rap,Race,Religion and Revolution. He has been interviewed by many newspapers including the USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor. Scott has lectured at universities across the country including West Virginia University and Clemson. Scott was ordained a Baptist minister in 1998 he later went on to create verbally the phrase Afrikan Liberation Theology which is "Black Liberation Theology for the Hip Hop Generation." After forming the New Righteous Movement. Scott formed the Messianic Afrikan Nation in 2003. For more information contact (919) 451-8283 orinfo@nowarningshotsfired com
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