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Destiny is like gloating down a river, free will is like swimming upstream. But I think the decision to swim upstream is predestined.

Music creates a feeling that trumps thinking. Before a battle there would be music, before seduction there is music. Watch a movie without music it is not the same. If I mention the song Raindrops keep falling on my head. You can easily name the movie and probably the scene. I am not certain about the artist or the album. In church you have music, in the coliseum, in the store, the elevator, the funeral, tv, movies life. We have music because everyone has a (heart)beat

@ Pioneer Side A It’s pretty much a catch-22 I think it’s a lot easier for white writers, directors, and producers to get away with movies like Django because Black folks in general don’t expect much from them except to be entertained It’s like how people at the Apollo wouldn’t boo the white singer who shows a little bit of “soul” in their voice when they’re really average, whereas they’ll rip apart someone who looks like them when they come half assed on stage Side B As far as Spike Lee… I disagree with your assessment about his portrayal of the “crazy” Blacks in contrast to “innocent” whites in his movies The movies Do the Right Thing with the racist pizza owners and Mo Better Blues with the shiesty club owners rip apart that opinion About his community depiction… In a nutshell, Crooklyn was a movie about the strength of a Black woman holding down a family, and Clockers was about the vicious cycle of violence that’s passed down from generations starting from Rodney (the O.G.) to Strike (the heir to Rodney’s drug operations) and to Tyrone (the kid who looked up to Strike) If you notice in the movie, you’ll see when Tyrone shot the Arrol the junkie, he was wearing the EXACT same clothes as Strike, the drug dealer he looked up to; symbolizing how he wanted to be like Strike Those are a few examples from Spike’s movies where he dropped hidden jewels I don’t think I can discredit his work from She Gotta Have It to Bamboozled However, I think Spike’s a far superior director than a writer…Do the Right Thing is my favorite movie…I just purchased She Hate Me online, which I was told was a good movie I have no interest in seeing Red Hook Summer, just like how I don’t care too much about seeing Django Side C I think it’s unfair to say that Spike paints a negative picture about the Black community when Tarantino subconsciously does the same thing in his movies; Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown That goes back to my comments about Blacks letting white folks slide when it comes to certain expressions of art It’s not in the filmmakers’ job to come up with solutions unless they WANT to…they’re not political activists Side D What “Black” secrets are you referring to? White folks know more about Black folks more than we do… LOL They hide certain historical information about us from us, and study us every second of the hour…hell, how do you think they were able to destroy Black progressive groups with the use of COINTELPRO in the 60s and 70s in the first place? LOL That’s why they’ll have Tyler Perry and Oprah co-sign a movie like Precious for street cred because they know Negroes pay more attention to brands and the “who’s who” when it comes to marketing Look at how Negroes are standing in long ass lines and killing each other over re-issued Jordans that came out in the 90s Tarantino and Jaime Foxx hold weight in the Black community...I'm not surprised at the Django's success Side E America today is just as racist as it was in the past…ain’t nothing changed but the weather Don’t believe the hype just because we have a person of melanin in the White House