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George Lucas, the creator of the “Star Wars” series ,said he could not get funding for his movie “Red Tails” which tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, because of its all Black cast.

Lucas discussed the movie, about the all-Black Air Force pilots who fought in World War II with “The Daily Show Host,” Jon Stewart. Lucas told Stewart

“This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I’ve been trying to get released ever since,it’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all…I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don’t know how to market a movie like this”

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  • Anonymous

    Not surprising that funds were not available for this project. I certainly hope that we support this film. Let Hollywood know that we want to see movies about us. Accurate movies. Movies that do not require the black lead male to wear a dress, speak ebonics, beat his wife, cheat on his wife, have an assortment of children, addiction issues…or on the flip side be so uptight that the character is unlikeable.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Amufuri-Hi/ Amufuri-Hi

    Saw that when it originally aired,…Lucas explained that even tyler perry’s films are 3rd party,…and if they giving George “star freakin’ wars” Lucas a hard time,..what does that say about any worth-while movie about African Americans being made?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VTYBSPSTHHHJE4OVROGYFMRY4A Maurice

    Last time I checked, Hollywood wsa run by the elite Left. Obama has made several trips out to LA to do major fundraising. Yet, those same execs can’t fund a Black movie that doesn’t show some sports star, rapper, or a comic sidekick to the white action hero. I keep telling you, those Dems and the ones on the far left really don’t have our interests in mind. We’re just pawns on the board.

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone seen the preview for this film? It looks dreadful, not to mention incredibly historically inaccurate. The 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest kill/loss ratios in the entire European theater (110 confirmed kills to 150 confirmed losses), whereas the 56th Fighter Group racked up an astounding 700 kills and 128 losses. Hell, the German “Ace of Aces”, Erich Hartmann, was credited with 352 kills BY HIMSELF over the course of 2.5 years. Either one of those stories would be far more interesting to the majority of Americans than this heavily fictionalized account of the Red Tails.

    Also, what the hell was Lucas thinking with cartoonish lines like “How you like that mister Hitler!”? I can guarantee that those words were never spoken in the c**kpit of a P-51, and that idiotic football chant is pure fantasy; these men were preparing for their deaths in the moments before the next sortie, not pumping themselves up to win the SuperBowl.

    So, between the quality of the film’s writing, Luca’s uncanny ability to turn anything he touches to s**t, and the fact that it features an all black cast (an extremely unprofitable venture for most major studio films), Red Tails will probably be the biggest flop of 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shariese-Hurd/100001852350588 Shariese Hurd

    I hope it has success. Maybe they will cast black people in something besides reality shows and Tyler Perry movies. But roots didn’t open alot of doors so I am not wholing my breath.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    If negroids don’t see how racist this country is by now, I GIVE UP!

    This is why I haven’t been to a movie theater in 20 years!!! This industry is set up to make sure Black stars, singers, dancers, rappers and other entertainers DO NOT “OWN” ANYTHANG! These khazars want to rule the world, including weak-hearted negroids!

    IF NEGROIDS WOULD REALIZE, THAT WE DON’T NEED CAUCASOIDS…BUT, CAUCASOIDS NEED US, AND IF, WE WOULD STOP CONSUMING AND TAP DANCING FOR CAUCASOIDS, AND GET OUR OWN, WE COULD BECOME THE GODS AND GODDESSES, WE ONCE WERE!!!!

    THIS IS REAL TALK!

  • Anonymous

    Oh boy, a black supremacist. Here’s an idea that may be detrimental to your world view; negroids, as a whole, cannon maintain the physical, financial, and intellectual infrastructure of the countries where they are a majority. As a caucasoid hailing from a town that is 99% caucasoid (and, at one time in my life, living in a hellhole that was nearly 70% negroid), I can assure you that we don’t need any more blacks than we already have.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    You know they are RIGHT …..they want to keep Hollyweird WHITE, with a FEW sprinkles of OTHER colors, IJS……

    Can you HESITATION????? I knew you could…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    True that….MANY of them are dead, broke or their careers is in the toilet……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    Eff Hollywood, since he funded it himself he will be raking in all that money himself. This isn’t a film for just black people, everyone can go see this. Anyway, I can’t wait!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    How come Spike, Perry or Singleton could not have teamed up and funded this movie?

    Why do caucasoids ALWAYS have to tell OURstory?

    By the way…I thought Tyler Perry was the best paid Black “act/her” in hellyweird? Oh! I get it…only when he’s selling booty!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y2NZAI2ZUO443SCMGTI6TISSUI kendrick

    If it don’t appeal to the lowest common denominator, it ain’t going to make Hollywood money or draw our interest. They know we don’t come out in droves to support movies like Red Tails. It ain’t racist.

    It’s a fact.

    We support Tyler Perry movies, Vh1 reality TV shows and The Game. We don’t support meaningful, thought-provoking forms of entertainment.

  • Anonymous

    GET THE F**K OFF THIS PAGE CRAKKKER! YOU DONT BELONG AND YOUR STATS ARE FICTICIOUS AND YOU KNOW IT. YOU’RE A FUKKING IMPOSTER, A NEWSDUMB PLANT. YEAH I SEE YOU BYTCH, AND YOU ARE FAKE, INACCURATE, & OBVIOUSLY AFRAID & DILLUSIONAL. YOU’RE DEMISE IS NEAR CAVE BOY! LMAO!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/laquitathodge Laquita T. Hodge

    Samuel L. Jackson was suppose to direct it, but he couldn’t commit. But Anthony Hemingway is the director..and he’s black. So is the screenwriter, John Ridley. George Lucas just funded the movie & produced it.

  • Anonymous

    You do know how incredibly inaccurate you are imposter crackkker bytch! You always post rediculous inaccuracies because you simply can’t handle the truth.

    You have some kind of pathetic life don’t you? Afraid to accept the truth….PATHETIC!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ER62KZVX2FUANQP6W4BI27VEBI tenantstar 1

    Just might have been because they already made a great movie about the Tuskegee airmen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Little cat! Only caucasoids are white supremacist…remember that!

    Blacks ARE NOT AND AND CANNOT BE RACIST because a racist is a cracker (like you) that practices white supremacy! Since, we are not caucasoids, then we CAN NOT BE RACIST! I keep telling negroids; you crackers love to flip the script and reverse shyt! You have negroids believing, that they are ‘racist’ which can’t be True!
    ——————————————

  • Anonymous

    Your rhetorical skills are abysmal. You should really work on that argument; in its current state, it reeks of circular logic. Here is the crux of your laughably childish argument: ” whites are exclusively racist, blacks are not white, therefore, blacks cannot be racist”.

    You honestly see no fallacies in your line of thinking?

  • Anonymous

    I would tone down on the paranoia just a tad; when one accuses another of being afraid and “dillusional”, its more convincing if one uses language that is somewhat less fearful and delusional.

  • Anonymous

    Hollywood is a business point blank and simple. They put money up and expect a return. Spiek Lee’s WWII movie a few years ago did very bad. Maybe if we supported movies like this instead the Friday’s, Lottery ticket, ATL and the like, we would get better movies. Lets see how many black people actually got out to see it. Put your money where your mouth is. Bcuz if this movie flops you won’t be seeing another for awhile. If you live in the NYC area check out the broadway show Stickfly produced by Alicia Keys. Very good.

  • Anonymous

    My mistake, in my original post I stated that the 332nd’s combat record was 110 kills to 150 losses; in actuality, it was 112 kills to 150 losses.

    No inaccuracies now (for some reason, Newsone is not allowing me to post my source) :)

  • Anonymous

    Blank face…:~

  • Anonymous

    Haaaa! You just admitted your fear. My presentation displays my utter disdain for your post. The fact that my language has triggered a reaction out of you, a fearful one at that, means my comment was on point and served it’s intended purpose. I only respond harshly to your kind. You can type as mildly as you please, but I know your type all too well, fake and superficial as you can be, and myself… I SIMPLY ENJOY ATTACKING YOUR COMMENT AND TEARING IT APART BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY!

    Now get off my page bytch!!

  • Anonymous

    “I SIMPLY ENJOY ATTACKING YOUR COMMENT AND TEARING IT APART BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY!”

    You haven’t posted any counter argument to my original post. Rather, you’ve chosen to use infantile ad-hominem statements and empty rhetoric to defend your stance. I take it writing coherently isn’t your strong point ;)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    Get real and save the propaganda.

  • Anonymous

    “……Hollywood doesn’t know how to market this movie”……. Well tell me this Hollywood, how did you market every other war movie since WWII? Race wasn’t an issue then was it? I applaud Mr. Lucas for his efforts in bringing the story to light. Having been raised in Tuskegee, I had always heard about them from childhood. Unfotunately, Hollywood has way too much say in what passes for Black culture and focuses on way too much bling and very little substance. So it’s up to you as parents to make sure your kid opens a book, go online, talk to your grand parents who lived through it and find out just who these brave Black men were and what the accomplished in the face of obsticles today’s youth with never know….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Thanks for the info!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    The bottom line is…YOU JUST CAN’T COMPREHEND TRUTH!

    Typical serpent behavior.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    You serpents NEVER want to see Black men in HEROIC movies or doing positive deeds!

    For your information; if it weren’t for the Black Afrikans, who built the FIRST glider over 2000 years ago, there would be no airplanes! You can see this glider at the Cairo Museum! By the way…this glider was capable of flight!

    The wrong brothers, I mean wright brothers, didn’t invent shyt! Everythang you touch was invented and introduced by Black Afrikan people!

    WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU CAME FROM?

    REMEMBER THAT!

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising. Hollywood doesn’t know how to produce movies concerning African Americans unless we’re slaves, ignorant, dead beat dads, and any other stereotype that has been placed on AAs. “We don’t know how to market this” is absolute garbage. They don’t have a desire to produce movies starring AAs, especially when the characters are intelligent, caring, good parents to their kids, etc. At least someone in Hollywood is honest about it.

  • http://www.pmurraymusic.com/ P. Murray

    There have been scores upon scores of movies made about various aspects of the American Military, Air Force, Naval Forces, and the like. If you’re going to talk ratio, let’s talk about the number of War/Action/Military movies made, at the very least, with stories concerning the contributions of Black American troops across the span of our country’s history vs. the number of films completely bypassing such information. Not to be petty, but pointing out how well other Non-Black members of the armed forces is like doing the New Years Day Polar Bear Dive for charity in Brooklyn, New York and yelling, “JEEZ, THIS WATER IS FREEZING;” I think we’re very well aware of such easy-to-discover points of interest. I would’ve taken your criticism with a grain of salt as is, had you not done your flashy comparison.

    The larger point, I believe, is taking stock of your last statement regarding the unconscionable disregard for the Black American movie idiom by the major studios. Were it just a question of economics & financial soundness, your observations would have no objection from me or any other educated consumer of mainstream media. The sad fact remains: when dealing with media involving a cast/staff/crew whose majority is Persons of Color, the stigma against seeing it to fruition on a grand scale is almost as deeply rooted as still-fractured issue of race relations in this country, and neither problem is one that folks on either side of the color line are willing to truthfully work towards resolving.

  • Dandelion

    You better speak on it, Sis!

  • Dandelion

    BINGO!!!

  • Dandelion

    Maurice, the business decisions of the “elite Left” you speak of is not the issue. The issue is the white bigoted audience that they base those business decisions on. Wasn’t the “elite Left” running Hollywood when Bush was in the Oval Office? Matter of fact, didn’t Reagan spring from the “elite Left” of Hollywood?

  • Dandelion

    I checked out Red Tails preview on YouTube. So far is has 9200 likes and 511 dislikes. This is a favorable percentage of 94%. So, consider your “assessment” in the minority. Oh and I see you are a WWII buff, good for you! However, you do realize that films are dramatized for cinematic effects, right?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shoutout13 Shoutout13

    So Hollywood is willing to finance a movie with a “Stepin Fetchit” acting Jar Jar Binks Star Wars character…

    but a movie showing that our African American ancestors contributed actively to this country in significant and often heroic ways is not worth funding?

    NO surprise here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FM6424AAPB6JJHQUMA4LJAV4XM Nadia Hutak

    damn n****r somebody sure hit you with the ugly stick lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FM6424AAPB6JJHQUMA4LJAV4XM Nadia Hutak

    ur broke ass cant afford no damn movie ticket lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    Imagine that, after the airmen were working to free the same zionist-nazis jews from Adolf Hitler so they could come to america, take it over and change it forever. how ironic.

  • http://twitter.com/AphroPic SimplyComplex_87

    welcome back, Shoutout!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    jews got the bank, baby. don’t you know that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    believe me, I would love the leave america. you think america is the best place on earth? I would love to leave. Give me the money you owe my ancestors for the free labor that helped build this ungrateful country and I will gladly leave. marcus garvey tried but he was stopped by you same devils. why don’t you pay attention to those who really mean you harm and leave Black america alone. get us out of your thoughts. we do not want to be friends with you. you demonize every Black leader that teaches us separation from the devil white man.,

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    or so you wish, jerk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    likewise, b***h

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JH5ASYZ3HCR6HZ6Z62M5CCRENI truthseeker

    no propaganda written by Maurice. I understand that you have a problem handling the truth. whatever. it is true. the movie industry is controlled by jews who now control both the dems and repubs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/courtneyR/ courtneyR

    It’s George Lucas. George Lucas does whatever George Lucas wants to do. Plus I wouldnt be surprised if his african american girlfriend had something to do with the pushing of this project. Either way,I want to see it. It looks really good. Not to say that others couldnt of done this movie but George Lucas has MEGATRON BUCKS.

    = BIG MOVIE PROJECT. and in order to deal with HOLLYWEIRD, you need someone that LOOKS LIKE THEM WITH MAJOR BUCKS TO DEAL WITH THEM. BECAUSE GEORGE IS THE CREATOR OF ONE OF THE BEST FILMS ,FRANCHISES on PLANET EARTH, (STAR WARS, thanks dad for making it apart of our lives as kids :) ) being responsible for REVOLUTIONIZING HOW MOVIES ARE MADE to begin with, (THX) this man can do whatever HE WANTS…HIS MONEY IS literally out of this world.

    So with that ,I say, THANK you George Lucas for making this film happen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shoutout13 Shoutout13

    Paranoia? You mean like the Tuskegee experiment
    where all those doctors “played” along with not
    letting black men who were intentionally infected
    with syphilis as part of an experiment know what was
    really happening (ironically, they were probably called
    paranoid by intentionally game playing racists like yourself)?

    You mean paranoid like my link to the downplayed
    history of Black Wallstreet in Tulsa having the link
    switched with an x-rated site without my knowledge
    and then “conveniently” being deleted?

    Or do you mean paranoid like paranoid racist sites encouraging
    infiltration of black news and websites in order to interfere
    and actually posing as blacks and stalking and harassing
    people online and offline in order to discredit and silence?

    Do you mean paranoid like no one asking why nobody is
    looking for Jahessye Shockley or if as is hinted, she’s not alive,
    why no news on the search for a body?

    Or do you mean paranoid as in the time I called out the attempt
    to re-invent racist “flash mob style” stalking as a black only
    activity by only using the label when blacks were involved or
    “allegedly” involved in certain activities?

    Or maybe paranoid like racists knowingly following and having
    your posts deleted even if they are on topic?

    And speaking of delusional, what makes you think that people
    who actually belong on this Black forum asked for your opinion?

  • Anonymous

    Just like your mommy pale c**t!!

  • Anonymous

    But you can’t afford to controll that wet dog smell you pale people be having
    EWWW!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YKNWSCKRILWISMK4C6BWZXZ5VU Willis

    This brings A LOT of credence to what Eric Monte has been talking about for almost 40 years with Norman Lear. If you read about Monte, he does sound bitter. From some accounts, he sounds like a careless nigga too. The point is, Hollywood will not finance all black projects because they can’t relate and don’t want to take the risk. They don’t even want to learn. When someone like Eric Monte comes along and schools them on what to do, they the white man, wants to take all the credit and the reward aka money. Eric is pretty much homeless but that kinda his own fault. Just read up on him. Anyways the quote from the article “There’s no major white roles in it at all…I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don’t know how to market a movie like this”.

    Monte said the same exact thing. He basically said that Hollywood wasn’t doing black shows until he helped change the game. He created Good Times, George Jefferson, What’s Happening, and Cooley High

  • Anonymous

    “Give me the money you owe my ancestors for the free labor that helped build this ungrateful country and I will gladly leave. marcus garvey tried but he was stopped by you same devils.”

    My ancestors have absolutely nothing to do with the enslavement of Africans, and thus, I owe you nothing. Surely, you realize slavery was formally dissolved as an institution 150 years ago; you, along with the vast majority of black people alive, should be should be prospering by now instead of struggling to prove your worth to white society (or alternately, demanding other people’s money).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayevans20/ jayevans20

    Is any one surprised by this injustice in Hollywood? I respect guys like Tyler Perry even though I don’t like any of his movies. We need more people like him though. I hope Lucus do more movies like these!

  • Anonymous

    First off, you and your people aren’t (original) human beings (I know that is hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll just move on……..second, you have no history that is your (own ) to claim (I know this is also hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll continue…….third, your only contribution to the world is (murder), (theft), (rape), (molestation) and (disease) no matter where people that look like you are these traits are sure to follow (This should be easy for you to comprehend). Your time here is very limited at best and your favorability is even worse so remember that on your way to extinction.
    Revenge is sweet but your slow death is sweeter. To be continued……………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    Because the countries where Negros are the majority have been systematically invaded and robbed of their natural resources by European marauders.

    “The bible in one hand and a gun in the other”

    It’s yellow belly white krackas like you who we don’t need any more of.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shariese-Hurd/100001852350588 Shariese Hurd

    Really but blacks have been maintaining structures for years before you were around. And most of your infrastructures are falling apart. America cannot maintain this one without borrowing billions of from Chinese, needed black slaves to do your work and land stolen from Natives. We didn’t come and take your people to our country. Which is why alot of these great superpowers are failing or have failed now like Russia, Italy, Spain and Greece. We see how well you handle everything since you ruined the banking structures being so damn greedy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5OI5TZCG6MAM27YBFYGXR3UIPQ william

    AFRICAN AMERICANS WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

    Hollywood and the likes have made it painfully clear that we (people of color) have to come together and build our own production companies and create a way to fund our own projects. Hollywoods only reason to justify their decision not to fund the project was placed on the marketability of the film. Give me a break!!!!!! I challenge all who are affected by this in one way or another to create something, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The powers that be do not want to promote positive images of black people because that will begin to erode the believe system of lies that was created to control this oppressed group of people. For centuries, black people have built, supported, fought and died for this coutry, just to receive little or no credit for their efforts.

    My solution for that is to play their game. UNITE AND BUILD, UNITE AND BUILD, UNITE AND BUILD

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shariese-Hurd/100001852350588 Shariese Hurd

    Then don’t watch it. What do you get I wonder coming to this site. We don’t believe anything you post. You don’t even list your sources. But I wonder about anybody who life is so bad that they have nothing to be proud of themselves and have to try to cling to accomplishments of their race. Really, the only thing make you feel good is that you are not black. You are so pathetic and everybody knows it. I am now putting you on ignore list. I think we should just flag anything you write.

  • Anonymous

    Every time I try to post a source, it must be approved by a moderator…

    nationalmuseum [.af][.mil] /factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15471

  • Anonymous

    Every time I try to post a source, it must be approved by a moderator…

    nationalmuseum [.af][.mil] /factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15471

    Aha! Just remove the brackets.

  • Anonymous

    “First off, you and your people aren’t (original) human beings (I know that is hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll just move on”

    Yes, I’m well aware of this. During the first neolithic migrations out of Africa, homo-sapiens went either North, to settle in the fertile river valleys of Egypt and the Middle East (and eventually to Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas) or South, to settle in the jungles and plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The homo-sapiens that went North interbred with and caused the extinction of the Neanderthals; this is the genesis of modern day caucasoids.

    “second, you have no history that is your (own ) to claim (I know this is also hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll continue”

    I honestly have no idea what this means; are you insinuating that I’ve done nothing with my life? I’m happily married, debt free, four beautiful kids, and I have a fulfilling job, what more could a man ask for :D

    “third, your only contribution to the world is (murder), (theft), (rape), (molestation) and (disease) no matter where people that look like you are these traits are sure to follow (This should be easy for you to comprehend).”

    You do realize that modern Africa and any city with a majority of negroids is a hotbed of murder, theft, rape, molestation, and disease, correct?

    “Your time here is very limited at best and your favorability is even worse so remember that on your way to extinction. ”

    Hahaha, my time has just begun! I have a question though; why do blacks absolutely love to bring up this “extinction of whitey” nonsense? If all of the black populations in America and Europe decide to interbreed with whites, they’ll easily be assimilated. Why do want our genes badly enough to make yourselves extinct?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/meanygreene/ meanygreene

    method man is in this

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/swampthing49/ swampthing49

    the question is will black people go and see it or find an excuse not to?????? let’s be honest with ourselves for most would rather see a goofly foul mouth in a dress than to see black people act as an upright people……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shoutout13 Shoutout13

    You’re not being honest if you are expecting to know what all Brothaz and Sistahs will do in response to this movie coming out. Black people have individual minds and are just as likely to create a surprise box office smash with this film as any of the films that were marketed to the general public, assumed to be a “guaranteed hit” but then flopped (there are plenty).

    So that argument against a movie that might bring new light to the reality of Black contributions doesn’t quite cut it (my skepticism, however, is because of Lucas’ former fictional Jar Jar character laced with racist undertones that went unquestioned by George Lucas and those on his team with any authority to stop it).

    One possibility is that a few Brothaz and Sistahs could go see the movie and if they like it, they
    tell their friends and it gets a bigger and bigger audience because of word of mouth.

    Swampthing, even if Black people choose not to go see it, it’s our decision to make as individuals.
    It’s not like we might somehow “waste his time”.

    If anything, with Black history, so much of the truth gets distorted, reinvented or surpressed,…..
    we want to make sure George Lucas isn’t wasting OUR time.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CoCo_Devine_1/ CoCo_Devine_1

    How about marketing it like every other Hollywood movie…..It is strange to me and sad that this is the cae in 2012 with a black president. This is the best example of the fact that while we have come far, we still have so much farther to go. If Holllywood can market all tha other crap to us, why can’t they market something so relavant to our history. They have no problem marketing reality shows that portray us negatively, or marketing movies where we are supporting casts so what is the problem now? Did I hear someone say RACISM…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/courtneyR/ courtneyR

    Thats what I cant understand, isnt this apart of AMERICAN HISTORY? shouldnt be hard to market.just saying.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76345HXQKQDWGI2AZR5G5J7RUA Keith

    Hard to believe that people have fought and died for equal rights and then I see a segregated news site like this, such hypocrisy!

  • jsmith0552

    Actually that statement doesn’t hold up when you look at actual figures. Take a movie like “The Color Purple”, made on a modest budget of $15 million. It grossed $135 mil. That ain’t bad, yet where were all the books with similar themes and all the cash in movies that usually follow a successful movie. The Joy Luck Club was made for 10.5, and it tripled it’s cost coming in at around 40 mil at the box office. When you include Dvd and video sales these movies were pretty solid. Yet unlike even minor hits with white themed pictures not even the actors were able to turn a role in a successful film into long term work.

    This is not the usual Hollywood story for “white” films the screenwriters, or the stars. It is not just about money. There is something else going on here.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent points. I never looked at the post movie perspective. We have enough black people with money to do our own stuff and market our stuff after it is released. Just like signing the Civil Rights Act didn’t stop people from being racist neither will calling Holywood out on its B.S. I’ve talked to several actors in the NYC area and they all say the same thing. It doesn’t matter whether the movie has white or black stars. The camermen, grips, lighting, and everything in between is done by whites.

    Unfortunately people around the world the world don’t think very highly of us. If Hollywood sees us doing our own thing and making money. They will come calling. Look at black dominated sports and hiphop. We established billion dollars industries. We just don’t know how to leverage all the power and money we have.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ANGELPARADISE1/ ANGELPARADISE1

    So what you’re saying is that, we, as a WHOLE race cannot maintain the power and leverage necessary to be prominent in the world, even where we are the majority. May I ask, where was that ” hellish” neigborhood where it was nearly 70% black? Another question, since it was such a hellhole, how did YOU end up there? Its people like you with this ” we don’t need anymore blacks” attitude that really make my head hurt. You’re experience with black people, however bad thy might be, are YOUR experiences in YOUR corner of the world. In the places where we are the majority, tell me, what resources are available to us? Now I know, you’re response will be,” That’s not a good question! You people have the same resources as whites!” Not true. In some places, maybe its the same resources, but a sub-standard version at best. I know its not the 1960′s and back anymore. However, the idealogical dregs of those eras are still turning the wheels of this country. I may be oonly 27, but I assure YOU, without more black people, YA’LL would be in a world of hurt. I could give the typical examples of our contribution to sports… you know we made it NOT boring to watch sports, or music… you know we practically BIRTHED jazz, blues, RNB, bee-bop, etc. However, look at the non-typical examples. Without more black people, where will the Kofi Annan’s of the world go? Oh yes, you might not know who that is. He was apart of the MAJOR peace talk deal that made Kenya recognized as a country in Africa and STOPPED the violence and civil unrest there. Without more black people, where will the passion and heart-beat of this country come from? We bring so much to the world at large in all areas of life. Without more black people, there would be NO creativity, music , passion, life, DIVERSITY, heart, or soul. Without us, there would have been a delay in the first open-heart transplant surgery. There would have been scared white boys flying in WWII, instead of brave black men willing to end their lives for a country that despised them and used them? Whether you or others like you believe it, without us, what would you do all day? Your race is fascinated with mine. The very things you ” hate” about us, are the things you want for yourselves. Why did the slave trade happen with us? Our GOD-GIVEN NATURAL athleticism, our seemingly impossible physiques( male AND female, but that’s another story), our passion, our music, our spirit. These are they attributes they wanted, not just for the sake of mental trickery. Someof the most renowned poets, teachers, professors, doctors, editors, authors,etc are BLACK. If we were all the same, it would be boring, mundane and NO progress? Why do you think God made different races and cultures? Because we ALL contribute to this human life of ours. White people like you look at what history has done to us, what the world is like for us NOW, and you shrug it off saying get over it already! Or well things wouldn’t be that way now, if you people would act like humans instead of animals. But this is partly YOUR doing!There are whole generations descended from those that bought into the ignorant rhetoric of YOUR people from long ago. Its not an easy process to let go of an idealogy that is being passed down is it? Why am I asking you? Because you’re the perfect example. You are afraid of what you don’t know and VERY unhappy that you might be wrong. Or is it that you KNOW you are wrong, but will continue to repeat this grave error? What is it you don’t know? We, as black people are still shrouded in mystery. We have depths to us, that will never be touched or duplicated. Our history is not just the one being broadcast to the nations. Our legacy is not something YOUR race is going to decide. After all that effort, 500+ years of slavery, civil rights era, and mental break-down, it is not YOUR PEOPLE who decides our fate. Yet THAT is the lie that has been perpetuated again and again. Makes you mad, doesn’t it? That’s why you spit this vile poison you call reason on platforms such as this. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ThoroughBredTay/ ThoroughBredTay

    HE GOT THAT MUTHAF**KA MARKETED THOUGH!!! This makes me wanna actually go to see it now, and I ain’t been to a theatre in few years.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ThoroughBredTay/ ThoroughBredTay

    Just please don’t let this fuel any racist rage in you. We already tryna abolish this s**t and we shouldn’t let media entities that have a lil bit of power and can publicize that power, distract us and cause conflict by putting s**t like this in the airwaves, then we resort to take it out on peeps who “SEEM” like them, because “they” ain’t in our reach

  • Anonymous

    Question 1):
    “Yes, I’m well aware of this. During the first neolithic migrations out of Africa, homo-sapiens went either North, to settle in the fertile river valleys of Egypt and the Middle East (and eventually to Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas) or South, to settle in the jungles and plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The homo-sapiens that went North interbred with and caused the extinction of the Neanderthals; this is the genesis of modern day Caucasoid”.

    Good job!

    Question 2):
    “I honestly have no idea what this means; are you insinuating that I’ve done nothing with my life? I’m happily married, debt free, four beautiful kids, and I have a fulfilling job, what more could a man ask for”.

    I’ll tell what this means, Neanderthals history is based on (stealing) from others (there are countless examples of this), so as I said (I know this is hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll continue”

    Question 3):
    “You do realize that modern Africa and any city with a majority of Negroids is a hotbed of murder, theft, rape, molestation, and disease, correct?”

    Actually your wrong, and if you take your racist eyes out and do some research, you would know this! (I know this is also hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll continue”

    Question 4):
    “Hahaha, my time has just begun! I have a question though; why do blacks absolutely love to bring up this “extinction of whitey” nonsense? If all of the black populations in America and Europe decide to interbreed with whites, they’ll easily be assimilated. Why do want our genes badly enough to make yourselves extinct?”

    Your wrong again, your women don’t want you so they routinely court us Black men because we have more to offer them (obviously)! or they would be with their own. (I know this is also hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll stop there.

    *(All non-Africans living today are part Neanderthal)
    In a (2011) issue of the (Journal of Science), they conducted a study that finds as modern human migrated out of (Africa) some of them (integrated with Neanderthals), leaving bits of Neanderthals (DNA) sequences scattered through the (genomes) of present day (non-Africans). The (DNA) of these non-Africans is (16%) Neanderthal. Neanderthals lived in (Europe and Western Asia) before dying out (30,000) years ago, the new fossil evidence show they (coexisted and mated) with humans in (Europe) for (thousands of years). Scientist came to this conclusion after extracting (DNA) from (40,000) year old (Neanderthals bones).

  • Anonymous

    “Actually your wrong, and if you take your racist eyes out and do some research, you would know this! (I know this is also hard for you to comprehend) so I’ll continue”

    Shall we check last year’s HDI rankings?

    wikipedia. [org] /wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

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