Most astonishing thing I learned from The Butler...
Mariah Carey is Black.
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More of a high steppin' yellow.
shareThat cotton grows on bushes. Sorry but I honestly didn't know that!
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is that people are still falling for this propaganda BS. the movie was basically saying that blacks should take their beatings and oppression with dignity, and be servants to whites, and not fight back. i'm so sick of movies like this
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You learn in life the difference between things you can change and things you can't.
The son could work for black rights because he had a father who worked his a__ off to pay his way to a good college. The father didn't have that luxury.
When you grow up, you have to earn a living. Blacks couldn't get good paying jobs just anywhere, or very often. He had a family to support. I can relate. As a woman who was underpaid, there wasn't much I could do about it. I continued to work, worked as much O.T. as I could, did a good job...but I didn't have the luxury of quitting and job hopping or taking off work to protest or getting on the bad side of HR. I had to earn a living.
That's the reality of life.
Also, being a butler is a noble profession. Have you not seen Upstairs, Downstairs? Or Downton Abbey? Or Remains of the Day? Do you look down on people who work in hotels? These are people who merely work in the service industry. It's honorable, pays decently, sometimes has decent or good benefits.
Cecil had probably one of the best jobs a black man had in the country in the early 20th Century. Any kid would have been proud of what his father did. Even now, I would be proud to say if my father worked as a butler in the White House. It's prestigious...if you're in the service field.
or you could open up your own business, instead of working for white supremacists. there were plenty of black owned businesses before the 60s (even more than in 2015). you don't have to empower yourself by protesting in the streets. you make your own money, and support other black owned businesses. don't give other races your money. black people are the biggest spenders, so there is no excuse to not open up your own shop/online store.
there is no honor in being a servant to white people. that is just a paid slave. a noble profession is maybe being a teacher who saves up and opens their own school. or something more simple like having a tutoring business. making your own money and calling the shots is real honor.
Cecil had probably one of the best jobs a black man had in the country in the early 20th Century. Any kid would have been proud of what his father did. Even now, I would be proud to say if my father worked as a butler in the White House. It's prestigious...if you're in the service field.
this is sad.....
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and you're a white supremacist enabler. i did watch the movie and turned it off half way through. you're mad because i'm against black people not fighting back and empowering themselves. people like you are whats wrong with the world.
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners