With all the shoving of racial stuff, I've wondered why this music video makes me feel positive and happy, when there are very few white people in it and it is demographically like a McDonald's commercial.
I think it's this simple. Everyone is smiling, everyone is happy, there's no black ghetto culture, unless you count some kids doing the worm and a robot type dance as ghetto culture.
There's African culture with the African garbs, but again there's nothing in the video that is putting across the message that it's superior. It's just showing another culture.
Every single person is on equal footing. The white people are attractive, man and woman, and smiling, and everyone is having fun with each other. There's no message other than "Let's have a fun time dancing the night away".
I think it's the meanspirited-ness of the "diversity" that would come that really makes it so foul.
I watched Blade the other day, and for the first good chunk of the movie, the characters with the most screentime are blade and a black woman he saves.
But race is never mentioned. So none of it felt like anti-white.
Race was mentioned in the 2nd movie with one of the white characters asking if blade can blush. Although, it seemed the entire team was laughing and goading it on (including the other black guy).
It couldve been race related like you cant see a black person blush or it couldve been related to blade being a sorta hybrid and wondering if he can blush like a normal human.
The goal of blade was to entertain. When black panther came out my dad and I were so annoyed how the marketing acted like this was the first black man to ever be in movies. Also you had the usual Wikipedia comic experts in full force
Race was mentioned in the 2nd movie with one of the white characters asking if blade can blush. Although, it seemed the entire team was laughing and goading it on (including the other black guy).
This was supposedly included at Snipes' behest according to one writer; I believe Snipes was in Praque or Sweden at the time? I can't remember which one.
The writer recounted that Snipes told him a passer-by stopped to talk to Snipes, and even though it was cold out, the man quizzically asked Snipes' "can you blush?" not out of malice but out of genuine curiosity because he had never met a black person before.
It was explained that while Snipes' was initially offended by the question, he also realised the man had never met a black person before, and in some ways, thought it was funny. So he had the writers include that line in the film
With all the shoving of racial stuff, I've wondered why this music video makes me feel positive and happy, when there are very few white people in it and it is demographically like a McDonald's commercial.
I think it's this simple. Everyone is smiling, everyone is happy, there's no black ghetto culture, unless you count some kids doing the worm and a robot type dance as ghetto culture.
There's African culture with the African garbs, but again there's nothing in the video that is putting across the message that it's superior. It's just showing another culture.
Every single person is on equal footing. The white people are attractive, man and woman, and smiling, and everyone is having fun with each other. There's no message other than "Let's have a fun time dancing the night away".
I think it's the meanspirited-ness of the "diversity" that would come that really makes it so foul.
I watched Blade the other day, and for the first good chunk of the movie, the characters with the most screentime are blade and a black woman he saves.
But race is never mentioned. So none of it felt like anti-white.
Race was mentioned in the 2nd movie with one of the white characters asking if blade can blush. Although, it seemed the entire team was laughing and goading it on (including the other black guy).
It couldve been race related like you cant see a black person blush or it couldve been related to blade being a sorta hybrid and wondering if he can blush like a normal human.
The goal of blade was to entertain. When black panther came out my dad and I were so annoyed how the marketing acted like this was the first black man to ever be in movies. Also you had the usual Wikipedia comic experts in full force
This was supposedly included at Snipes' behest according to one writer; I believe Snipes was in Praque or Sweden at the time? I can't remember which one.
The writer recounted that Snipes told him a passer-by stopped to talk to Snipes, and even though it was cold out, the man quizzically asked Snipes' "can you blush?" not out of malice but out of genuine curiosity because he had never met a black person before.
It was explained that while Snipes' was initially offended by the question, he also realised the man had never met a black person before, and in some ways, thought it was funny. So he had the writers include that line in the film
I miss stuff like that. Lionel Richie is great. Check out his work with the commodores if you haven’t already
I'll check that out. I haven't listened to the commodores, but have been aware of their name
the 80s really were the peak of music