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]]> http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/01/21/race-hollywood-and-the-whitewash-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-3923 cheri416 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:14:00 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/01/21/race-hollywood-and-the-whitewash-of-everything/#comment-3923 I was going to do my disertation on this topic. But now I am going to finish with and MFA and one of my projects will be to sdit the white narriative out of these films. I HATE THID HOLLYWOOD PRACTICE.Where are more Stand and Delivers and Coach Carters????? People of Color will never get rid of this until we have our own studios & distribution systems. Is that ever likely to happen???? I was going to do my disertation on this topic. But now I am going to finish with and MFA and one of my projects will be to sdit the white narriative out of these films. I HATE THID HOLLYWOOD PRACTICE.Where are more Stand and Delivers and Coach Carters????? People of Color will never get rid of this until we have our own studios & distribution systems. Is that ever likely to happen????

]]> http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/01/21/race-hollywood-and-the-whitewash-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-3922 Katrina Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:58:39 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/01/21/race-hollywood-and-the-whitewash-of-everything/#comment-3922 What is interesting to me is that I was in the corner of the Scottish doctor. For obvious reasons, but also because the torture and psychological pain inflicted on the young doctor made me more sympathetic to his innocence. I overlooked the horror that Amin and his gang were bringing on the hundreds of thousands of people in Uganda. It was almost as if the directors and producers preferred that we sympathize with the doctor above the citizens... think of what happened to one of Amin's wives for her love affair or the countless others who felt his wrath. It is the Scottish doctor, he is the one I cared about, thus giving the citizens of Uganda a second glance when it came to sympathizing with their cause and their helplessness. What is interesting to me is that I was in the corner of the Scottish doctor. For obvious reasons, but also because the torture and psychological pain inflicted on the young doctor made me more sympathetic to his innocence. I overlooked the horror that Amin and his gang were bringing on the hundreds of thousands of people in Uganda. It was almost as if the directors and producers preferred that we sympathize with the doctor above the citizens… think of what happened to one of Amin’s wives for her love affair or the countless others who felt his wrath. It is the Scottish doctor, he is the one I cared about, thus giving the citizens of Uganda a second glance when it came to sympathizing with their cause and their helplessness.

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