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Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:25 am
by BlackVelvet
52 min in, I knew I was going to be EFF white people but didn't expect to be pissed off at the slaves themselves
There's a reason Somalis were never slaves

die as a free man than live as a slave
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:26 am
by Warabaha
I think about owning slaves every month
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:46 am
by FarhanYare
Somalis are not naturally big and couldn't be able to withstand the harsh weather, workload, etc. This is why they sought after west africans
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:47 am
by BlackVelvet
Human beings can be unspeakably evil
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:10 am
by SultanOrder
It was torture watching through the movie, almost walked out a few times.
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:22 am
by BlackVelvet
Makes you wonder, the way those slaves were mentally shackled and accepted their position, are you currently a slave of something that you don't realise is not "normal" or shouldn't be....
Conversely the question which atrocities are being committed right now that we're ignoring or watching passively. I saw a documentary on al Jazeera, people openly and proudly calling themselves Zionists and holding a parade in New York. Evil humans live in every generation.
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:45 am
by original dervish
Most slave films make the niggas out to be passive and docile.
The reality is the opposite...slaves would often revolt...killing the plantation owners and their families.
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:48 am
by BlackVelvet
Most slave films make the niggas out to be passive and docile.
The reality is the opposite...slaves would often revolt...killing the plantation owners and their families.
Stories like these would be better. I don't believe there is any benefit in seeing yourself as a voiceless victim
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:53 am
by original dervish
Not just that........but only able to be liberated by ole whitey.....a reoccurring theme in this genre.
The only films that get made in the mainstream have to conform to these stereotypes.
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:58 am
by GeoSeven
There were other Africans in the cinema so I had to suppress my laughter during this ridiculous scene where the white guy tells the slaves to clap for him while he sings the "run nigger run" song.
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Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:16 pm
by Basra-
Jas
Is that WHY you posted the Reparations article?
I like 12 years of slavery. It was good acting both by Lupita and Fassbender. Both actors are extremely sexy.

Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:29 pm
by SultanOrder
Most slave films make the niggas out to be passive and docile.
The reality is the opposite...slaves would often revolt...killing the plantation owners and their families.
Yeah right buddy, slave revolts were few and far inbetween. The oppression was too powerful.
Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:40 pm
by anzeloti
I couldn't watch it more tha 30 min
The way that house negro who directed the movie jumped around the stage in the Oscars was so embarrassing, self hating danyeer

Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:42 pm
by Khalid Ali
What a boring movie hurda ii qabatay watching it
Nin free ah oo slave la dhigay oo plantation ka shaqeyey 12 years than freed again
I liked Django more
Never seen a nigger on a horse

Re: Watching 12 Years a Slave
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 1:56 pm
by LiquidHYDROGEN
I find it difficult to empathise with slaves.