Comments on: Action? Affirmative. http://deesavoy.com/2008/06/21/action-affirmative/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:07:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: writerds http://deesavoy.com/2008/06/21/action-affirmative/#comment-28 writerds Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:35:34 +0000 http://deirdresavoy.wordpress.com/?p=103#comment-28 Thank you, thank you, thank you, Chicki. You know, if you got a whole range of images of black folks--the goody two shoes, the pimp, the intellectual, the whore, the regular Joe or Jane, whatever, no one would get upset at any particular portrayal since there would be balance. Ah well. Watha gon do? I vote with my pocketbook. I'm not buying anything I don't support, or as one website says, STOP FUNDING FOOLISHNESS. You can't get any plainer than that. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Chicki. You know, if you got a whole range of images of black folks–the goody two shoes, the pimp, the intellectual, the whore, the regular Joe or Jane, whatever, no one would get upset at any particular portrayal since there would be balance. Ah well. Watha gon do? I vote with my pocketbook. I’m not buying anything I don’t support, or as one website says, STOP FUNDING FOOLISHNESS. You can’t get any plainer than that.

]]> By: Chicki Brown http://deesavoy.com/2008/06/21/action-affirmative/#comment-26 Chicki Brown Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:31:50 +0000 http://deirdresavoy.wordpress.com/?p=103#comment-26 Tragically cast is so true! James Patterson described Alex in one book as looking like a young Muhammad Ali - fit, sexy and good looking. That's about as far from Morgan Freeman as you can get! But he played the heck out of that role. You are so right about how we cast black men in our stories. That's why I have such a problem with urban/street lit. Haven't we had enough of pimps and drug dealers? Sure, every character in a story can't be Mr. Honorable, but I believe we need to knock down that image that all black men are triflin'. Tragically cast is so true! James Patterson described Alex in one book as looking like a young Muhammad Ali - fit, sexy and good looking. That’s about as far from Morgan Freeman as you can get! But he played the heck out of that role.

You are so right about how we cast black men in our stories. That’s why I have such a problem with urban/street lit. Haven’t we had enough of pimps and drug dealers? Sure, every character in a story can’t be Mr. Honorable, but I believe we need to knock down that image that all black men are triflin’.

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