Terrance Howard: Black Women Are Antiquated, White Women Represent Progress:Your Red Tails Open Thread

Surprise! Sunday post. So you saw the movie, how was it? Red Tails is on pace to be #2 at the box office, with about 20 mil. Over at Shadow and Act, they are praising God that Red Tails saved Black Cinema. I guess we can expect three or four films next year produced by big studios with all-Black casts. *commence holding breath*

Miraculously or suspiciously, this interview of Terrance Howard and David Oyelowo talking about interracial relationships in Red Tails got buried in the lead up to the film.  First, I'm pro marriage freedom. Marry who you like. But when you basically say that marrying or having sex with a White woman symbolizes "freedom" and progress what does that say about having relationships with Black women?  Yeah, he said it. No, sadly, I'm not exaggerating. 

 All of this hullabaloo over "interracial relationships" is a cheap distraction. This issue isn't marriage and relationships, the issue is CASTING. Why did the Red Tails team GO. OUT. Of. THEIR WAY to avoid casting Black women? And for the Black women that were cast, why were they cut? This is an issue about employment opportunities and quite frankly discrimination by a team that were promoting a movie about the immorality of racial discrimination. If racial discrimination against Black pilots was immoral for the US military, why isn't it equally IMMORAL for the director and writers of Red Tails? Why isn't it equally IMMORAL for these two Black actors to justify the discrimination with a ridiculous answer. And to all of the women saying that there are not women in war movies...  

Did you notice the women in the movie? The mother and the wife. And here's the trailer for Pearl Harbor: Did you notice the women in the movie? Mothers, wives, children. And here is the trailer for The Patriot.. notice anything?

Yeah, in other words in addition to being delusional, you're also liars.

Yeah, We Could Talk About Red Tails, but Let's Talk About 64,000 Black Women Who Are Missing

So last Friday in an honest attempt to crowd source and have my readers tell me why I should go see Red Tails in light of Terrance Howard's horrifically bad acting in the trailer, I put up what I thought was a "throw a way" post. I also asked if there were any Black women in the movie. Well from those two questions, we found ourselves in a VORTEX of STUPIDITY that culminated in this dishonest RE-post by an anonymous (cowardly) Black male blogger over at Clutch magazine which implied that Black women were actively organizing a boycott of Red Tails because we're allegedly jealous of White women. Yes, I said it was a VORTEX of STUPIDITY. I guess they didn't have time to post "Should Black women pluck the Wings off of Butterflies?" or "Should Black Women Kick Kittens?".

I was going to talk about the vile abuse Black women have endured this week for asking legitimate questions about casting decisions which purportedly left Black women completely out of a movie they've been asked to subsidize, but the most "Viral" post of the week on the WAOD Facebook Fan Page was not about Black women missing from Red Tails, but Black women missing from their families and friends because they've likely been kidnapped or killed. So I decided to use all of the attention we've received as a result of the VORTEX of STUPID to talk about the issue that was MOST important to you this week. 

The Black and Missing Foundation is working with TV One to air a television series called Finding Our Missing hosted by S. Epatha Merkerson. 

 A quarter of a million people of color are missing in this country- that's over 40% of all missing persons.  A British newspaper is reporting that 64,000 Black women are missing in this country.

Those missing women include:

Sharnecia Monique Frazier

Shelia Hughes

Shandell McLeod

Sharon Davis

Tilawna Cheatham

Latoria Renae McClarin

Arnika Miller

Asia Nicole Martin

Ashani Creighton

Sharaun Cole

Phoenix Coldon

Stacey English

Visit their website to find out more about the Black and Missing Foundation. Kudos to Cathy Hughes and TV One. 

CONFIRMED: Jazmine Sullivan EDITED OUT of Red Tails- TOLDJA SO!

I'm breaking my posting rules and posting twice today... because I know it will annoy and flummox the Black Thought Police who have been defening the erasure of Black women from the Red Tails movie and demanding the Black women support the movie without question.

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Robin Thicke Trashes Black Women in Lame Attempt to Make ESSENCE Cover: When MESSENCE-heads Come Home to ROOST!

In some ways you have to feel sorry for Mr. Paula Patton. He was hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray by the male-identified women working at your favorite publication and mine, ESSENCE magazine.

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"Noncooperation with Evil is as Much a Moral Obligation as Cooperation with Good" - MLK.. and Red Tails

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As is tradition around here, we go hunting in search of footage of Dr. King beyond the "I have a Dream" soundbyte that will run all day today. 

This video is of an interview where Dr. king explains that non-violent RESISTANCE is the most powerful weapon.   That message has been coopted and defanged by the Black Elite Establishment where the order of the day is compromise, passivity, and going with the flow. 

This would explain why so many Black people are having a conniption fit with this blog because we asked people to explain why Black women should go see the movie Red Tails when there are no Black women in the movie. Yes, I figured out a way to tie in the movie Red Tails and Martin Luther King- that's why they pay me the big bucks 'roudn here. 

We have been told to sit down, shut up, and fork over our dollars to a group of men who created a movie to intentionally exclude Black women from what they purport to be a representation of American history. Mind you there has never been a war movie of late, where the wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers of the soldiers in the movie don't at least appear by photograph.

The easiest thing in the world would be for Black women to acquiesce. To ignore these ridiculous slights. To be silent and go along to get along, less we be called bitter angry $#&*^es.  But what has that gotten us? if anything this whole Red Tails debacle demonstrates the visceral hatred some Black men and women have for Black women.  If me not going to  see a movie where people who look like me are excluded will cause you to call me out of my name, then heaven help us if I start demanding more tangible things like the right to travel freely without harassment.

So be strong my contrarian brothers and sisters. The next time the Black Thought Police tell you to roll over and play dead. Tell them no thanks. Tell them that  Dr. King said that you are morally obligated NOT to cooperate with their stupidity and cowardice.