Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I remember when they were outraged Dunkirk had no black characters.
A friggin WW2 movie in Europe where the English were trying to escape for their lives……and they’re mad because that historical story has no major presence of black people. Truly insane how DEI is a de facto cult. You can’t even tell stories from history now as they were.
Black Americans fought in WWII. My own mother’s uncle fought in WWI — and sent home letters and pictures that we still have. The real cult is the effort to erase POC from history— and from fictionalized depictions of history.
Because there were some black soldiers in WW2 means they need to be overrepresented in WW2 films? Puhlease. 99% of the casualties in WW2 were either white or Asian. It was DUNKIRK for cryin’ out loud. If you want to make a super niche story about black soldiers during WW2 go ahead, but the war was overwhelmingly fought by whites and Asians, and they by far and away had the most deaths. It’s would just be extra weird and out of place to add in a lot of black characters into a story like Dunkirk.
Yeah but the movie Dunkirk left out the Asians as well. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58466527.amp
The Indian unit was 300 men out of over 300,000 evacuated, and they worked on the supplies, not front-line fighting. There would be no reason to feature them in the movie. You people are absurd.
Why are we still uselessly reminiscing a war fought by imperialists and colonizers in the first place?
Anonymous wrote:Learning that some of y’all grew up in towns with no black people - this explains a LOT about some of the things I’ve read on DCUM over the years!
Anonymous wrote:Friends in the 1990s - I lived in NYC from 1986-1999.
Bars and neighborhoods were very segregated.
I hung out with white Catholic college educated single people who worked on Wall Street between ages of 24-33 lived in Manhattan and grew up on Long Island.
There was no internet, cell phones. Bars and places catered to particular crowds
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I get it, OP. Though I’m not sure slotting in one or two token non-white actors as minor characters would have made that much difference. What’s really ground-breaking are stories with a critical mass of diverse characters. There were a few in the 80s, like The Cosby Show, but there’s been an explosion of that kind of content in the last few years, and I love to see it.
I’m white and went to a high school that was 99% white, so I never gave the whiteness of entertainment any thought. But my husband’s Asian, and he’s talked about what it was like to grow up never seeing people who looked like him on TV. Worse, the single Asian character usually turned out to be a stereotype of some sort. Our daughter has watched a few tv series from Japan and Korean, and it’s a whole different experience when the hero AND the villain AND the funny sidekick AND the police detective AND the nerd AND the background extras, etc, etc are all Asian. I believe watching shows like that will subtly change her sense of belonging in the world in ways that seeing a few token characters would not.
+1. Thank you for stating this so well. I enjoyed Footloose and all those movies. But it was HARD growing up and never seeing yourself anywhere on screen. Thank goodness things are a little better now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not a lot black people in rural Kansas in the 80s. Or Nebraska or Iowa or Minnesota or South Dakota. I lived in one of those towns and there wasn’t any diversity, except for migrant farm workers.
Get over it, OP.
But there have definitely been some Black people in rural Kansas since the 1950s. Some people think Eisenhower was partly Black: https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-black-roots-of-ex-president-dwight-d-eisenhower/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I remember when they were outraged Dunkirk had no black characters.
A friggin WW2 movie in Europe where the English were trying to escape for their lives……and they’re mad because that historical story has no major presence of black people. Truly insane how DEI is a de facto cult. You can’t even tell stories from history now as they were.
Black Americans fought in WWII. My own mother’s uncle fought in WWI — and sent home letters and pictures that we still have. The real cult is the effort to erase POC from history— and from fictionalized depictions of history.
Maybe the first poster should learn some history. People of color featured prominently in the battles Dunkirk portrayed.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/01/indian-african-dunkirk-history-whitewash-attitudes
Anonymous wrote:Learning that some of y’all grew up in towns with no black people - this explains a LOT about some of the things I’ve read on DCUM over the years!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I remember when they were outraged Dunkirk had no black characters.
A friggin WW2 movie in Europe where the English were trying to escape for their lives……and they’re mad because that historical story has no major presence of black people. Truly insane how DEI is a de facto cult. You can’t even tell stories from history now as they were.
Black Americans fought in WWII. My own mother’s uncle fought in WWI — and sent home letters and pictures that we still have. The real cult is the effort to erase POC from history— and from fictionalized depictions of history.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I remember when they were outraged Dunkirk had no black characters.
A friggin WW2 movie in Europe where the English were trying to escape for their lives……and they’re mad because that historical story has no major presence of black people. Truly insane how DEI is a de facto cult. You can’t even tell stories from history now as they were.
Black Americans fought in WWII. My own mother’s uncle fought in WWI — and sent home letters and pictures that we still have. The real cult is the effort to erase POC from history— and from fictionalized depictions of history.
Because there were some black soldiers in WW2 means they need to be overrepresented in WW2 films? Puhlease. 99% of the casualties in WW2 were either white or Asian. It was DUNKIRK for cryin’ out loud. If you want to make a super niche story about black soldiers during WW2 go ahead, but the war was overwhelmingly fought by whites and Asians, and they by far and away had the most deaths. It’s would just be extra weird and out of place to add in a lot of black characters into a story like Dunkirk.
Yeah but the movie Dunkirk left out the Asians as well. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58466527.amp
The Indian unit was 300 men out of over 300,000 evacuated, and they worked on the supplies, not front-line fighting. There would be no reason to feature them in the movie. You people are absurd.
Why are we still uselessly reminiscing a war fought by imperialists and colonizers in the first place?
Anonymous wrote:Learning that some of y’all grew up in towns with no black people - this explains a LOT about some of the things I’ve read on DCUM over the years!