RCG ; Bamboozled ; Spike Lee's (:

This week we finished the movies Bamboozled. I was really shocked while watching this entire film because of how racists they took it and how far they went with it. It is very risky in this industry to discuss race in movies or on TV shows. Especially when the show is entirely about racist slurs and stereotypes. Delacroix character i thought mean't well, he tried to help those two men off the streets and put them in his show, however you find out that it is pretty humiliating for the two men even though it does make them famous. Fame comes at a cost thought because even though a lot of people found it funny and comical other african americans did not find it so funny and in the end Manray had to pay for it the hard way. Manray had so much talent going for him even though he was broke and uneducated. He just got the wrong kind of show that pretty much caused his death just because some people took it personally and kidnapped him. I really did not like the fact that Manray got killed by that gang it just was very brutal and did not think it was appropriate especially right after he said he was done with the show and quit. I think that was the point of the story thought happy ending do not always happen and even though he learned his lesson in the end it did not matter because he still got killed. Even the gang got killed so J.Smith's brother got killed as well but he definitely deserved to because he has no right to kill Manray just because his character made jokes about his race. When J.Smith's charachter ended up shooting Pierre Delacroix that made more sense to me because she had told him throughout the movie i hope you know what you are doing. She knew it was a bad idea all along and that some people would take it the wrong way and not be able to laugh about it and would get too risky. She was right it did and it was all Delacroix's idea and fault because she lost her brother and Manray because of that stupid satire show. I really enjoyed this movie though it really opened my eyes to race in a new light. I think the people who could not laugh about the show could not take the brutal comedic honesty that was shown. All the show did was try and kill the stereotypes of african americans by making fun of all of them and it just made it a lot worse by having over about eight people die because of the stupid show. I look forward to tonight in talking about how i felt about this movie and how i believe it was truly a good movie to see.

RCG ; Presentations and Video

This class we took the first half of class going over everyone's presentations. All of these presentations were about someone who made a change in the world or had some great importance with something special. My presentation was on Tatanka Yotanka and he was a chief leader in his tribe. He fought Americans for his land because they were trying to take it from his people. He was a very respectful chief who was only doing that for the rights of his people in the tribe. The Americans also thought they were doing the right thing for their people, however, I think they were wrong. A lot of the other presentations were about the important people like the first real tribal chief woman. Another was a man who was a musician of jazz and blues. There were too many to list but all the presentations were well done and i enjoyed listening to what everyone had to say about their person of importance.

We Also started the movie "Bamboozled" by Spike Lee in this class of race, class, and gender. (: