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Savages, The (2007)
IMDB rating: 8.20
Plot: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Directors: Jenkins Tamara
Actors: Hoffman Philip Seymour,Bosco Philip,Friedman Peter,Zayas David,Akinnagbe Gbenga,Boyd Guy,Blankenship Hal,Ludwig Salem,Comedy,Drama,
Why do African-Americans stereotype everything successful as white and everything unsuccessful as black?
Hmm?
They consider someone that behaves like the "typical educated male/female" whitewashed or uncle Tom but someone that is the "stereotypical African-American man/female" perfectly normal.
Why do these savages set themselves to FAIL???
Really, last time i checked people try to make thier race sound good not bad.
SUPDOG SEXy MEX | Feb 08, 2010
i don’t think they do…..
seriously, open ur eyes.
Jakob Karytt | Feb 08, 2010
first and foremost I am not a savage. and i don’t consider myself whitewashed because i’m in the middle of getting an education. not every african american person does this
ashley | Feb 08, 2010
Superior IQ my ass.
Jenny Lynnnnnn | Feb 08, 2010
I don’t know/get it.I am an educated Black Woman and I get called everything you can think of (Oreo,whitewashed blah blah blah). If White means manners and education, than I guess I fit that description.
Librateen | Feb 08, 2010
Wow, I actually agree with you for once. (well except the usage of the term "savage")
Bronze | Feb 08, 2010
And Doctor Martin Luther King gave his life for the rights of blacks, and if it wasn’t for him you wouldn’t even be considered for a green card.
Deedee=) | Feb 08, 2010
HAHA. I think it’s the victim mindset… Don’t you know you owe those people for things our ancestors did?
Nicole L | Feb 08, 2010
Since you know so many so well (how else do you know what you’re asking ?) ask one.
Why do so many white people hate blacks and spend hours trying to look like one ?
Perming hair,risking skin cancer baking in the sun,wearing urban fashions riding around in cars blasting Kid-Rock ?
Joe | Feb 08, 2010
Well, not all of them ”fail” as you say. And I know alot of people who are dark skinned, and only their great great great great grandparents were black. And I believe that when a black person is mad at a white person, they probrably still hold this thing against them thinking that the whites wouldn’t exept them, like in the olden days. And I think that people are racist against blacks becuase they feel that they are the better people, that they are more classy. But really, it doesn’t matter what race you are. I sometimes joke around about races, but really, we are all people, not dogs or whatever.
me | Feb 08, 2010
I think all those years you spent living in that sh..it hole Sudan, swating flies off your booty-hole, and all those parasites that came off of it made your little brain shrink.
inferior IQ's momma | Feb 08, 2010
Savages. Wow. Sounds like something from a Tarzan movie. Anyway, being a Black female raised in the South, I, unfortunately, was raised and taught that "White is right." My mother came from an era where Blacks were still riding on the backs of buses and dropping out of school to help on the farms. My step-grandfather was Black, but he did not like Blacks that were too "dark". In fact, my mother was told not to marry my father because he was too "dark". In fact, certain relatives received special treatment because of the lightness of their skin, and the texture of their hair. This is something that was taught and ingrained in the psyche of Black people from the days of slavery, and, unfortunately, it still exists (no matter how stupid it sounds). I was taught that if I wanted to go to a good grocery store, to go where the White people shopped because that’s where the better sales, produce, and meats would be. When my mother wanted something fancy to wear, we would go to a department store that catered predinently to White people because she thought that was where the good stuff was. My mother was a school teacher, and after bouncing around to a few substandard public schools, she made sure that I landed at one that was predominently white and affluent (she had to pull strings for that).
So, I say all of this to say that the baffoonery of setting oneself to fail could be something that is generationally handed down. We are a complex people who are mixed with many different races, but all under the title African American, or Black. We are also made up of hudreds of different hues of browns to even pinks like Whites. It is easy to set yourself to fail if you believe that you as a race are nothing, or not as important as others. It is also easy to set yourself up for failure if your family contributes to the ignorance.
Once, if we ever get to the point of not focusing on races and just focusing on people and their problems, we’ll be able to move past a lot of the issues that the "savages" are encoutering, and then they will be able to begin to focus on success rather than failure. It is happening now, but you don’t see it because there is no emphasis on it.
Also, every February, some school wants to drag my kids down to a plantation and show them the basements, slave quarters, and shackles that were used during the slavery days to commemorate Black History Month. I ask you this: If people want Blacks to succeed, why don’t they take the children to a corporate office or a college and show the children business men/women, professors, and college students?
PAULA D | Feb 08, 2010
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