12-30-2003, 09:07 PM
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Dubya
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I think this movie quote is a good response to the original article
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Hooper: For years in this industry, whenever an African American character, hero or villain, was introduced - usually by white artists and writers - they got slapped with racist names that singled them out as Negroes. Now, my book, "White-Hating Coon," don't have none of that bullshit. The hero's name is Maleekwa, and he's descended from the black tribe that established the first society on the planet, while all you European motherfuckers were hiding out in caves and shit, all terrified of the sun. He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to. Cause I'm here to tell you, the chickens is coming home to roost, y'all. The black man's no longer gonna play the minstrel in the realm of comics and sci-fi fantasy. We keepin it real, and we gonna get respect by any means necessary.
Holden: Ah, come on, that's a bunch of horse shit! Lando Calrissian was a black guy! You know, he got to fly the Millennium Falcon, what's the matter with you?
Hooper: Who said that?!?
Holden: I did! Lando Calrissian is a positive black role model in the realm of Science Fiction/Fantasy.
Hooper: Fuck Lando Calrissian! Uncle Tom nigger! Always some white boy gotta invoke "the holy trilogy"! Bust this - those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down - even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this shit. You got cracker farm-boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy - blond hair, blue eyes. And then you've got Darth Vader: the blackest brother in the galaxy. Nubian God.
Banky: What's a Nubian?
Hooper: Shut the fuck up! Now Vader, hes's a spiritual brother, with the force and all that shit. Then this cracker Skywalker gets his hands on a lightsaber, and the boy decides he's gonna run the fucking universe - gets a whole Klan of whites together, and they're gonna bust up Vader's hood :the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?!?
Banky: Intergalactic Civil War!
Hooper: Gentrification. They're gonna drive out the black element, to make the galaxy quote, unquote "safe" for white folks. Jedi's the most insulting installment, because Vader's beautiful, black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty white man! They're trying to tell us that deep inside, we all want to be white!
Banky: Well isn't that true?
Hooper: (pulling out a gun and knocking over his podium, firing the gun at Banky) BLACK RAGE! BLACK RAGE! I'LL KILL ANY WHITE FOLKS I LAY MY MOTHERFUCKIN' EYES ON!
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I don't think we should rewrite Tolkien, anymore than I think we should put white guys in Kurosawa movies (unless it's Tom Cruise). Why can't we just get away from editorializing literature and let it stand for itself, a product of its time and environment.
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