Comments on: Knocked Up Swag

By: Stephy Garmola

Stephy Garmola — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:46:03 +0000

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By: NKEIRU

NKEIRU — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:08:12 +0000

Halle- She’s a woman, daughter, (previous wife), and partner, a career woman, and soon to be more…We applaud her for her work…

Let us not forget…Oscar was first called Academy Award…Also there is a STAMP for Ms. Hattie

FACT-…

First Oscar: Hattie McDaniel, 1940, supporting actress, Gone with the Wind.

Oscar, Best Actor/Actress: Sidney Poitier, 1963, Lilies of the Field; Halle Berry, 2001, Monster’s Ball.

Oscar, Best Actress Nominee: Dorothy Dandridge, 1954, Carmen Jones.

All of her other film roles aside however, it was Hattie’s Oscar-winning performance as Mammy in David O. Selznick’s legendary Civil War epic GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) that made her career and guaranteed her place in movie history. Her ability to project moral authority over her white charges with endearing comedic s*****, as well as near-maternal concern and heartbreak, earned her an Academy Award as the year’s Best Supporting Actress, and at the 12th Annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove on January 29, 1940, Hattie became not only the first black performer to win an Academy Award, but also the first to attend an Academy Awards banquet. Her success in GONE WITH THE WIND immediately established Hattie as Hollywood’s foremost black actress, a position in which she enjoyed enormous critical plaudits as well as intense scrutiny and criticism from members of the black press.

By: Good grief

Good grief — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:57:31 +0000

C.C. – interesting point of view and your experiences in life. I disagree to a point. I have close friendly members who have inter-racial marriages that have lasted (and continue so)for close to forty years. Perhaps it depended on the strength of who they are and not the color of their skin. Too much emphasis is being placed on the race of the person, and in my opinion the ones who do the most squawking about race are the “black people” and “white people”. We are people who should be governed by how we feel, what we think and not by what color my skin is. It’s a shame that this is what it has come down too. Being hired, having friends, getting married, being successful, and the like should be according to what I have intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and the like and not because I am black or Hispanic, etc. It is society who has made distinctions, we are all responsible for this and not just one group, although as I stated above, there is more of a responsibility of whom squawks the loudest, with no real success. Most people turn a deaf ear to this.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:33:05 +0000

I’ll put it to ya’ll straight. All through college I had a relationship with a White man. Oh everyone said, “well she’s different”, “well she’s pretty”, like that made me acceptable. Well, after graduation I hit that cold, cruel world and found out that i was just a another yellow n***er. White heritage, white boyfriend, it didn’t stop a thing. I’ve been horibly discriminated against, and even lost a couple of jobs for dating white men, because once my bosses who were all white women saw me having lunch or being picked up by these guys, they fired me. And I graduated at the top of my cl*****, was never late, and pursuing a PhD. What Black folks have got to learn is that in America, it doesn’t matter what your bloodline is mixed with, what college you graduate from, who you sleep with, what neighborhood you live in, or what political party you support, or what you do for a living, Black is Black and for most White people that is a problem. Now Halle’s last movie (Things We Lost in the Fire) flopped, and she’s going to keep having flops until she and dude break up. Then, (now remember somebody told ya’ll this) when dude get a little more famous, starts making a little more money, he is going to eithier (a)do something to disgrace himself and their relationship, (b)use her (I suspect this is happening already) (c)leave her after he’s pimped her for all he can get. Being with Black people is hard for White people, and they only do it when they have i.e. want to date a person more physically attractive than what they get in their own race, need help, want to feel “better” than somebody because their own treats them like sh**t, etc..And to those who say, well, what about love. I can’t say that love between the races can’t happen, but I can tell from years of experience, that that love will be invaded by racism, and the moment the Black person *****erts themselves, it going to be some sh**t.

By: Good grief

Good grief — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:37:37 +0000

poor nah-nah – that’s what she does when she is having a hard day – picks up the pipe to smoke a little crack. it’s okay baby, it’ll be alright.

By: nah nah

nah nah — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:07:38 +0000

@ Good grief:

You silly rabbit…

Are you a schizo or something? LOL, who here is talking about marriage and babies? We’re discussing a movie….Stop smoking that crack and snap back into reality.

By: nah nah

nah nah — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:00:31 +0000

Actually, she and Hollywood cl*****ified her as black.

She also said she wanted to be white when she was younger, because she felt all of her problems would ‘go away’. So there’s a possibly that Halle might be ‘confused’ as is a lot of people who are products of inter-ethnic breeding.

By: Good grief

Good grief — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:56:13 +0000

nahnah – get over yourself and quit living in the past – it’s a free country – I love that people, unlike yourself, can live in a country where they can make choices where to live, whom to marry, and not get stuck in a box as yourself, and see no color lines, are strong enough to see whom they want, make babies with whom they want, marry whom they want to. Being narrow minded and living the past keeps you stuck in your present, and do not allow oneself to experience the true joys of life, but only allow themselves to experience the trajedies of life in the past and now.

By: Please

Please — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:52:40 +0000

Fulani – maybe she is always reminding you that her mother is white because you keep reminding everyone she is black. She is proud of both her heritages, whereas you only stick to one subject. She honors both her black african america roots as well as her white roots. I am mixed as well, and love it! I am proud of both, and speak of it. Why put her down because of it. It’s not all about black people darlin’, it’s about what and who you are without any color lines.

By: nahnah

nahnah — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:35:29 +0000

Bossip is not allowing me to post my mile long response for some ‘odd’ reason, but I must say this(if it’ll post…)

What is so empowering about black women being sexual slaves to white men?

What is so empowering about a black woman seeking refuge from a racist white man who executed her husband?

What’s so empowering about a mother forgetting about her obese, emotionally disturbed child after he loses his life, and focus on sexually pleasing a racist white man?

This wasn’t about race relations, it was clearly about black women being sexual slaves and satisfying the urges of white men who secretely desire ‘dark meat’. The references of chocolate ice cream and black coffee, which were highly emphasised in the movie should have been offensive enough for any sane person out there…