Blacks in Pop Cultture...

This week I will be focusing on the critically acclaimed film "Precious"...is it a stab at the Black community or is it eye opening reality that needs to be confronted? I think it is racist and blatantly disrespectful. Blacks have always been "drug through the dirt" in film but out of the recent films, Precious takes the cake. Character Claireece Jones is an incest victim, mother of two, HIV positive, and a prisoner of emotional as well physical abuse brought on by her mother Mary. Claireece is illiterate in her studies but has the imagination to think of vivid images of herself as a white woman and lover of a light-skinned Latino. And just when you think the torture doesn't get any worse, the movie depicts racial stereotypes such as Claireece stealing a bucket of chicken. To me, the movie is pathetic it attacks the Black community and deliberetly leaves out imperative parts of the book that would've made the movie half decent. But it fails to deliver a glimmer of positivity for the Black community in fact, writer of the book Push in which Precious is based upon said it was too late in the day to worry that the film's themes and images were somehow stigmatizing or inauthentic. Are you serious?? Is she just concerned with the money she's raking in or what? And the executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry don't they have some say in what can be edited it or out of a movie. Did Precious have to have a poster of a white woman on her wall when in the book she had moguls like Malcolm X? What about her religious practices in the book that were never mentioned in the movie?...two themes that hold a lot of weight in the Black community. To me its very simple poor, illiterate Black people make for good entertainment and as long as its getting fed back to the Black community as its reality it will continue to be "critically acclaimed" and all types of successful.

My sources:
Movie: Precious
Book: Push
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