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Tamango

Tamangois a 1958 French/Italian film directed by John Berry, another blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. Dorothy Dandridge and Curd Jürgens (billed as: Curt Jurgens) star in the film with co-stars Alex Cressan and Jean Servais. Based on the short story by Prosper Mérimée first published in 1829, the film is about a slave ship on its crossing from Africa to Cuba, the various people it carries and the rebellion onboard.
Even though the controversial project was filmed in the French city of Nice, France bannedTamangoin its West African colonies, fearing it would cause dissent. The U.S. government had bannedTamangobecause it broke the race-mixing (miscegenation) laws with the interracial love scenes between Dandridge and Jürgens.


What It Got Right
The 1958 film was way ahead of its time. Tamango and his fellow captives are shown to be in every way – morally, strategically as well as physically — better than their white captors.


What It Got Wrong
The love story between Dandridge’s slave mistress and Jürgens’ vicious ship captain seems to be an inappropriate representation of white male fantasy or fetish, especially the depiction of her loyalty being torn between her supposedly passionate master and her own people down in the hold.

Slaves

Slavesis a 1969 drama film that takes place in the 1850s South and follows Cassy (Dionne Warwick) and Luke (Ossie Davis), two enslaved Blacks who are sold to the sadistic plantation owner MacKay (Stephen Boyd). MacKay seeks labor from the men and sex from the women, and is determined to exploit both Cassy and Luke in those ways. The film was directed by Herbert Biberman, a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers and directors who were blacklisted under allegations of Communist support.

What It Got Right
Originally based onUncle Tom’s Cabin,Slaveswas an aggressive attack on racial prejudice against Blacks in American society.


What It Got Wrong
The movie’s aspiration of irony falls flat by showing Boyd’s slave master character, who supposedly embodies a love-hate attitude toward those he enslaves, as the only character in the film who is fully aware of the rich and varied African heritage of the enslaved Blacks. ANew York Timesmovie critic wrote in 1969 that “this interesting idea, however, is lost in melodramatic event and inflated dialogue. ‘Disgust makes you look so womanly,’ Boyd says, leering at Miss Warwick. ‘It’s like a prelude to some man-woman truth.'”

Roots

Originally broadcast as an epic TV miniseries in 1977,Rootsis the stirring story of one family’s struggle for freedom. The ghostwriter of Malcolm X’s autobiography, Alex Haley, based the book by the same name on research of his own family’s history. The series chronicled what happened to a young African, Kunta Kinte, played by LeVar Burton, sold into slavery and brought to the U.S. As the 120 years of history (crammed into a 12-hour story) unfold, each generation passes down the struggle for freedom until emancipation. The film’s finale still holds a record asRootsremains the third most-watched miniseries of all time.


What It Got Right

Rootswas groundbreaking in that in 1977 it gave a glimpse into what slavery was like in the U.S., when most Americans were oblivious to the details and were still adjusting to a post-Civil Rights reality — therefore, forever changing Americans’ perceptions of their own history.


What It Got Wrong

The miniseries was presented to the American public from a perspective that perhaps made it easier for white and Black viewers to deal with the painful reality of slavery. Professor Dexter Gabriel, who teaches a class on slavery in cinema at George Mason University, says it was “a very middle-class version of slavery, where the slave experience is almost turned into an immigrant story so that it fits in with the United States.”

Sankofa

Director Haile Gerima’sSankofa(1993) is a Burkinabé film about a self-absorbed African-American model named Mona who gets transported back in time to the Antebellum American South while doing a photo shoot in Ghana. In this era, she’s an enslaved woman named Shola and must literally relive the horrible experiences that her ancestors endured. By the end of the film, she joins two others in rebellion against their masters but is mysteriously returned to the present day, armed with a new cultural and ethnic awareness of her past. The film competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and stands to this day as a vital piece of modern African cinema.


What It Got Right

Sankofadeals with slavery in a graphic and honest way that no other Hollywood production ever has. The story about the daily life of the slaves, the physical and psychological hardships they endured, internalized racism, self-hate, stereotypes, religion’s role in morally justifying the horrific institution and the suppression of African culture and spirituality are all told through the eyes of a Black person.


What It Got Wrong

The film censored the revenge killings by the enslaved, and shied away from showing how bloody the fight for liberation is.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin


Harriet Beecher Stowe’sUncle Tom’s Cabinis regarded as one of the most influential works of the American abolitionist movement. Between 1903 and 1927, the novel was adapted at least nine times to silent film, making it the most-filmed story of the silent era. The author intended to paint slavery in a negative light by depicting the reality of the institution. The story focused on the character, Uncle Tom, a long-suffering enslaved Black man, around whom the stories of other characters revolve.


What It Got Right

The novel was used as an anti-slavery tool, but the films got almost nothing right on the American slave system. It was, however, ground-breaking in terms of filmmaking. The 1914 version by director William Robert Daly was inducted into the National Film Registry for being the first feature-length American film to star a Black actor.


What It Got Wrong

Plays and movies that were inspired by the book mainly used white actors in blackface and helped popularize a number of stereotypes about Black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned “mammy”; the “pickaninny” stereotype of Black children; “Uncle Tom,” the dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress; and “happy slaves” literally dancing during their auction.

12 YEARS A SLAVE.

Director Steve McQueen’s award-winning film12 Years a Slave(2013) has been hailed as one of the greatest movies about slavery ever. The 2013 historical drama is an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York state-born free Black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor played Northup while Lupita Nyong’o played Patsey, a young enslaved woman who befriends Solomon.

What It Got Right

The film was praised for its unapologetic, unflinching account of the brutal and inhumane reality of slavery in the United States. Critics and moviegoers alike widely expressed how painful the movie was to watch because of the horrific depiction of the destruction of Black human beings onscreen.

What It Got Wrong
The film’s use of actor Brad Pitt to satisfy Hollywood’s desire for a “white savior,” came off as self-serving. “It’s all so credibly enacted that once Brad Pitt (whose Plan B productions produced the film) arrives in a bit part as a kind-hearted Canadian who visits the plantation and speaks out against slavery, the character’s messianic qualities seem like a bit much,” wroteIndiewirefilm critic Eric Kohn.

AfroKnight:
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ronald4ever:
What's the difference? Why should I take you serious for dating a girl and not gbenshing her even as you admitted spending on her? What kind of cockeyed relationship is that?

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ronald4ever:
Stopped reading at "I have not had anything sexually to do with her".

Anytime I read such otiose lines I lose interest in whatever razz fvck one got to say.

i didn't say 'to do with her'

i mean i hv nt have sexx with her... Read again

HarkymTheOracle:
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lol

I have been dating this girl for sometime now. Actually i have not had anything sexually with her.....

Recently i have become her bread winner.

One thing that pains me is that, her promiscuity lacks an adjective to portray it.

She have not less than 5 boyfriends.

As i discovered she is a cheat, i don't want my money to go just like that. I want to do something that will pain her much before i quit the relationship.

As for now, am playing cool with her. Even if she's making a call to her other boyfriends, i don't care to ask.

Am really trying to figure out a plan to reciprocate her cheats game on me.


What do you think i should do to

Jacksonville:
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na Japanese weed

TrapQueen77:
But men always wanted to marry a virgin.. So many will deny this tho..

u b virgin?

This is what has prompted me in bring topics on the slavery suffered by Africans back in the days. With recent incessant assassinations of black Americans, i feel sad.

blaq05:
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SAINTSAMURAII:
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blaq05:
Have tried loads of Ladies for genuine relationship., the big issue is those ones I fancy don't reciprocate while those I don't fancy just dey chase me... I'm getting frustrating. Is this really normal??

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Pygmies were made to dance during numerous exhibitions to entertain visitors at zoos in both Germany and England

This is one of France’s many “Negro Villages.” It was said the village would often display Blacks to dehumanize them and compare them to animals.

A 20-year-old girl from South Africa known as Sarah “Saartjie” Baartman was recruited to work in a Paris zoo because of a genetic characteristic known as steatopygia — protuberant buttocks and elongated labia. Whites went to the zoo to look at her buttocks and at other naked Black women with the same shape.

One of the many human zoos in France

Congolese pygmy Ota Benga was on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City in 1906. He was forced to carry around chimpanzees and other apes.

This is a “Peoples Show” in Brussels, Belgium, where the young Black girl is fed by the white spectators

In the late 1800s to well into the 1900s, Europeans created “human zoos” in cities like Paris; Hamburg, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; London; Milan; Warsaw, Poland; St Louis; and New York City.

These were popular human exhibits where whites went to watch Black people who were on display.

The Black people were usually forced to live behind gates and in cages similar to animals in a zoo today.

Some of the Black people were kidnapped and brought to be exhibited in the human zoos.

Many of them died quickly, some within a year of their captivity. A large number of visitors attended these exhibitions in each city daily. For example, the Parisian World Fair featured a human zoo that exhibited Black people, and 34 million people were drawn to the exhibition in just six months.


Below are several photos showing the horrible reality of Black people who were forced to live in human zoos.


http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/09/13-shameful-pictures-europeans-placing-african-people-human-zoos/3/

[quote author=RaDaZaBaNa post=47376963]i dared not answer the call in her presence,,,

hello, hello... This network again.... Hello hello...

And that was how i skillfully moved away from her prying eyes..

It was on the phone that she informed me she was already on her way to my house....

Shuu

i texted her to come but i never knew it will be this early... How do i get rid of my gf before this girl arrives withnin the next 16 mins....[/quote ] so i convince jane that i hav an evenin clas to attend havent made up my mind to meet my new crush in a new rendezvous as i text to her.....

policy12:
As she stare at me my mind tremble as I behold the beauty before me, she looks perfect and everyman dream,then she walk towards me then my mind said to me to walk away this could be the reality of the dream another spirit in me said be a man opportunity come but once never miss this.. Still lost in my thoughts when I heard the heavenly soft voice like that of the wind says hi..

i was like wao! Then i reply, 'am kul hw abt u?'

the conversation continue......

Nt so long, our lecturer showed up nd we postponed the conversation....

Kept gazing at her while the lecture was going on.....

RaDaZaBaNa:
Boring saturday i guess..,.

Now the game is simple..

You are to continue the story a previous poster stated in not more than 3 sentences.,,,.,

e.g

smellymouth is a nairalander.. On the 28th of august, smellymouth did the unusual ... He posted his nudes on Nl...

Now the next person that will comment will continue..

After posting the nudes on Nl..all hell was let loose ,.,But there was more to the leak than meet the eyes,,

and on and on and on like that ;

.. So let me start....

Nairaland had never experienced such a thing before,, It was exactly on the 16th of july, 2016...The atmosphere was cool....


Next poster continue

come and finish this story oooo trapqueen nd co.

TrapQueen77:
me?

The TrapQueen only wants virgin men... Since ur overused, I can't have u on my palace

hmmmm TRAPQUEEN

stanboy28:
oboy...dis tread make sense i swear...let me continue the show....



I got up and feel in btw my legs to check if my salamy is there.Den i realize it was only a drm...jane my girlfrnd was staring at me with a luk dats qstionin ....i jst told her its notin...i washed up,tuk brkfst and head 4 my class in campus....

as i was in the hall waiting for our lecturer, i notice a very beautiful sexy girl staring at me....

SmellingAnus:
my brother.... I was just fortunate o.... That her guy no good at all.... But the girl kept coming back for more and my dick couldn't say no...

i was beaten by one prefect back in secondary school coz i use to play with his crush

the president of nigeria self don dey loose him popularity, so wetin popularity go add to your life profiel; mtcheeeeeew

0955eb027:
I was not born a virgin.

eyaaa....