Why do black people care so much about being black?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jordan Peele
kuatorises — 3 years ago(July 26, 2022 10:42 PM)
Jordan Peele: ‘Nope’ Had to Be About Black Joy, Not Just Black Horror, to Fit Into 2022
“It’s so tricky being considered in the vanguard of Black horror, because obviously Black horror is so very real, and it’s hard to do it in a way that’s not re-traumatizing and sad,” Peele said. “I was going into my third horror film starring Black leads, and somewhere in the process I realized that the movie had to be about Black joy as well, in order to fit what the world needs at this moment.
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jordan-peele-nope-black-joy-1235313812/
This of course on top of his comments a few years ago about how he'll never cast a white lead:
"Jordan Peele on Making Movies After ‘Us’: “I Don’t See Myself Casting a White Dude As the Lead”"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jordan-peele-says-i-dont-see-myself-casting-a-white-dude-as-lead-us-1197021/
Always so much focus on (simply) being black. Why is being black a personality trait? -
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Jim Shortz — 3 years ago(July 27, 2022 09:22 PM)
Re: Why do black people care so much about being black?
I'm not sure. It's probably for people with inferiority complexes ie Jordan Peele, who has a white mother and a white wife, and yet is obsessed with hating on white people in his ****ty movies. His insecurity is palpable.
I've said the answer to forced tokenism in film is for blacks to just make their own movies. Problem is they want their own movies and they want to be involved in everyone else's movies too. -
kuatorises — 3 years ago(July 27, 2022 11:08 PM)
I absolutely believe it's an inferiority complex. Black people are insanely tribalist. They are angry and hurt because of what happens to other black people; because they think they're all a hive mind or something.
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Jim Shortz — 3 years ago(July 28, 2022 12:45 AM)
Black people are insanely tribalist.
Yeah, I've noticed that. Much more so than anyone else. They can't seem to even enjoy a movie, simple escapism, without bringing race into it. Must be a pretty grim existence going through life where everything just boils down to race.
That chump Peele actually made a movie where a black guy's white girlfriend has a family who are all serial killers hunting him down. It was based on his own paranoia of his white girlfriend's family irl. It just means he himself is insecure about white people and just assumed his girlfriends parents were racist, ergo exposing himself as a racist instead.
His comments are just pandering. He knows he's a hack. "the vanguard of black horror", "re-traumatizing", "black joy". What the hell is he talking about? Full of **** like every other race baiter.
️ Christina 1986-05-20 
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