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American Fiction Is Coming (for the Book World’s Neck)

By Zoe Guy, a news writer who covers film, TV, music, and celebrities

So you want Black representation in novels? Well, only a certain kind of Black story will sell in American Fiction. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk in the trailer for Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut. He’s a poindexter writer type, frustrated by the fact that stereotypical “urban” novels dominate the Black book market. Nothing could have prepared him for a stop on Sintara Golden’s (Issa Rae) book tour, where the Oberlin-educated writer slips into cartoonish AAVE to read an excerpt from her latest. “Where are our stories? Where is our representation?” she says before reading, “Yo, Sharonda! Girl, you be pregnant again?” A white woman in the audience gives a standing ovation.

Monk might be just as upset over the minstrel-lite best sellers as he is over the fact that his own professorial books consistently flop. His ire leads him to jokingly write My Pafology, a book about a hardened gangster, based on the “true story” of his alter ego and pen name Stagg R. Leigh. To his shock, a publisher picks it up. Now, he must become the thing hates — a person who monetizes “Blackness” for white consumption. Worse, a white man just explained what a durag is on a call to discuss the book’s movie poster. The checks clearing might not be enough to tolerate all this. Jefferson’s satire is based on Erasure, Percival Everett’s 2001 novel. American Fiction lands in theaters in December. Stay tuned for real-life publishers asking, “Wait, is this movie about us?”

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MY THOUGHTS

As a writer who knew and knows many Black Writers my problem with this film is the lack of a key point. No one is stopping anyone Black from buying the book of the Black writer played by Jeffrey Wright. No one. Jeffrey Wright's character isn't being blocked from making a book, it is on the market. It simply isn't selling. But whose fault is that. If a Black author publishes a book and it isn't selling then the Black book buying community either doesn't like it, hasn't found it, or didn't give it a chance. And the Black book buying community is free to do that but the idea that it is the white publishing firms who are to blame is false. Yes, white publishing firms support Black Urban Caricature literature. Yes, they do. But, in modern times, no one black has any excuse to not find Black literature  in all flavors. No one black has any excuse in modern media to not find a work by a black author that suit their taste. Find it folks. And if Black book buyers or film goers need white media firms advertisement campaigns to give black work a chance or to find black works then the problem is black buyers. 

My answer to the first question above is a book called Capoeira and the original Sun man. I would add my high john the conqueror book, but I think it is too big a publisher.

The second is over 50 . 

IN AMENDMENT

The point of the film is the owners of media in the usa , the money, are white+ don't allow for enough width of opportunity for those not white , in particular black folk.. And that is 100% correct. But, outside violence, what is the answer? You can't tell someone how to use their private money so... the only answer that can be controlled by back people is the creation of black publishing companies. But in modernity , the tools to publish independently are greater than ever before, so a proliferation of work from all writers is out there. The ability to have a successful publishing company financially is tough. But the idea that white owned publishing firms simply need to extend their opportunity for non whites is for me, not culturally honest. The USA isn't Star Trek.  

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haha @Chevdove you have exposed yourself:) i know how you got through elementary school test:) 

@Troy I meant to you, not even close, many great scary films are absent:)

HEre is the answer key

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Lips)
2. Halloween (The Pumpkin)
3. The Mummy (Bandages)
4. Scream (Black Ghost with White mask)
5. The Shining (Tricycle)
6. Beetle Juice (Black White Striped suit)
7. The Nightmare on Elm Street (Striped Tshirt with Hat mannequin)
8. Shaun of the Dead (Bat and Shovel)
9. Gremlins (Paws in the box)
10. The Sixth Sense (Red Knob of door)
11. The Purge (Peeking Masked man)
12. Poltergeist (Girl with hands on TV)
13. Ghostbusters (Bagpack below lamp post)
14. The Evil Dead (Girl coming out of ground)
15. The Exorcist (Silhouette under lamp post)
16. Alien (Egg Flower shaped object)
17. Ring (The girl coming out of well)
18. Christine (The Car)
19. Blair Witch Project (Stick symbol above the car)
20. The Amityville Horror (House above behind car)
21. Arachnophobia (Spider on tree)
22. Dracula (The Castle)
23. Fog (Mist behind Castle)
24. Frankenstein (Angry mob on hill)
25. Wicker Man (Burning mummy statue)
26. IT (Red Balloon)
27. Silence of the Lambs (Insect on the lamp)
28. Wolf Creek (Wolf yellow road Sign)
29. An American Werewolf in London (Slaughtered lamb sign)
30. Psycho (Bates Motel)
31. Annabelle (Doll rocking on chair) - Also Conjuring
32. Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik's Shop)
33. Hellraiser (Box in Window)
34. The Lost Boys (Green Frog Comics)
35. Saw (Mask with red cheeks)
36. Friday the 13th (White Mask in window)
37. Child's Play (Chucky) (Doll in attic window)
38. The Addams Family (Thing - hand)
39. 28 Days Later (biohazzard sign on Chimney)
40. Sleepy Hollow (Headless man in front of moon)

16 hours ago, Troy said:

It looks like all of them — even psycho and the exorcist.

not even close:) the uninvited, the haunting , don't look now are all not in

no hocus pocus @Chevdove

Too see some movies not present in the image

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@ProfD the movie was a financial failure but Roger Corman admitted this was an art film, which he was able to barely afford, but he wanted to do. Comprehend this movie had to be a loser. Shatner's character didn't die? the rich guy of the town wasn't convicted of some crime. The black guy didn't become a hero. The truth is, the intruder speaks to the truth of alof of interracial situations in modern humanity. It is the same as the pawnbroker with rod steiger. 

The populace in the usa: white black or other, likes convenience. Likes narratives. Any art that goes against narrative is rarely liked. If the matrix ended with neo being killed and the system rebooting and then in some far date in the future, the sun returns and  the machines don't need the matrix for power, that would bea downer. audiences like a set narrative. 

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@Pioneer1 

 well, I can say the following

The Black statian community, blacks living in the usa, have not as a community reached the highest communal standards set in the usa by whites or developed an alternative system and implemented it [two various things]. But the black statian community , has even before the end of the war between teh states but ever more after, many examples of individuals who reached or surpassed the standards of individual achievement by whites in the usa. So while I can not apply the standards in the usa or from the usa to those outside it , whether governments or individuals. I can say that the Black Statian ,while communally has not reached the highest positive paramount set by white standards in the usa , has produced individuals more than any group [white asians/white latinos/mullatoes/mestizoes ] barring whites of european descent[ which includes white jews] who have performed above or beyond the positive paramounts set by white standards in the usa. 

3:06 i think more reality t.v. cause from my experience the money to make movies demands you talk to people who have money willing to lose, and said people want more surety. 5:53 independent films allow for the artistic acceptance even if it is financially against audience tastes. 7:52 the ability to gain experience in the arts differs on discipline. a painter can make a painting but a film maker needs to make and show a film which is more expensive. In conclusion that is the issue with projec greenlight, the process after a film is made matters

@Pioneer1 well, I admit I don't know your standard. I will need you to reword it as it is clear you said it, but I didn't comprehend. 

My standard? The only ranking/order/race I can apply to all governments in humanity is militaristic. to that end, no government in africa is what I call militaristically decent. Militaristically decent defined as a government that can support its military internally. USA is first tier/ China+ Russia is second tier/ 3rd tier is england/japan/france/india/ a few other governments 4th tier is brazil/nigeria a few others 5th tier is belize/ghana/ most governments/ 6th tier is the somalias and the few others who have no true government , more a collection of governments that are at war or haven't been recognized . 

As for the issues you brought up: 

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Keeping the society relatively safe and stable.
Establishing hospitals and keeping them operating and well stocked.
Establishing schools and keeping them operating and in decent condition
Keeping the electricity on and water running.
Building and maintaining a decent sewer system.
Building and maintaining a decent intra-national and inter-national transit system like busses, trains, and airports.

I don't relate governments on those terms because because governments have varying origins/styles/ways/situations, that play to powerful a role. North korea isn't japan in terms of the terms you speak of, but north korea has been under the usa blockade and penalty scheme for decaes, maybe 70 years or more. that influences all the factors you speak of and definitely any standard based on those points. 

@Pioneer1

 you asked if one government in africa operated effectively, but based on what you said or affirmed, I plus all others outside you will never be able to answer your question even though i or others  have been to the continent and experienced a few governments bureaucracies or conditions. 

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Betty Boop refers to a culture started by black women as jazz dancers , jazz a musical form started by black musicians.

@Pioneer1 positive idea, a group activity, i think a map of members in timezones will help these things first

fair enough @Pioneer1

ahh fair enough @Mel Hopkins

@Mel Hopkins I think the original post would had been better for the black excellence showcase.  some of the comments in here are unbecoming in the black excellence topic. I wish you would had asked, i could had told you that the brooklyn library system is separate. Remember NYC's government originally is manhattan's. Manhattan absorbed the bronx which was more a dairy area, named for the bronx family. Then it absorbed rival city brooklyn through Kings county and half of queen's county, and the Richmond , staten island's older, not oldest name<that is native america>. So the borough presidents and various legal mechanisms in NYC derive from the fact that five counties with a lot of impetus by manhattan or new york county, joined to make the five borough nyc. And in defense , NYC is in truth five cities that standalone are top seven cities in the usa, los angeles + chicago are in the seven as well. so less centralized control is warranted as the bureaucracy is too big in nyc. 

I am happy for the inspiration that some... many, black people in NYC needed by having the library exhibit.  

To money... 

I am happy for Jay-Z's financial success. As an artist i do not see any connection between financial value or artistic value in the arts anywhere. If Curtis blow or Grandmaster flash started a few decades later while jay-z a few decades earlier more than likely they switch financial fortunes. If Beyonce was during the 1960s while tina turner was today, i imagine a similar reversal financially. Last poets for me is artistically superior to jay-z's work but jay'z's work is commercially superior to last poets , and that is ok. But jay-z was at the best time to make profit. the black communities wealth, the globla media acceptance of hip hop, his fanbase, the internet, it all fits to lead to money, and that luck is fine, but just luck. 

@ProfD thank you

In my mind, i rather say Black Leadership in NYC at the least, is wisest if it consist of a group of individuals representing the various tribes in the black village in nyc, but it doesn't have to, it can be one individual but they have to be committed to the all the tribes honestly which is a challenge. 

Comprehend Jackson mississippi doesn't require such an internally multiracial leadership. a black christian movement is enough but al sharpton isn't in jackson, he is in nyc. 

@Troy   as shatner said in the interview, the content of the material inspired.  

and remember to say the leadership will change, all communities in humanity go through phases of quality leadership, sometimes the quality is high plus the quantity is high sometimes the quality is low plus the quantity is low. 

Sharpton said on local news in 2023, talking about coretta scott king and mlk jr, forget the show i apologize, that he wanted a christian movement when he started in his perm and third trimester days, he purposefully rejected other advocates who wanted to regale other aspects in the black community outside the black christian. so... 

And you mention oprah and it is similar. 

 The modern black community in the usa is internally more multiracial than ever before and it isn't just the black, this goes into Schrumpt, the white community in the usa today has a greater level of internal multiraciality, and same to latinos, same to asian.  I have heard in NYC latinos call ocasio cortez crazy. Anyone in NYC know the koreans and indians do not get along with the chinese. Staten island, the mostly white borough,  wants to cede from nyc in the same way, the southern states white populaces want to change the imperial design of the usa from how the northern and western states have it.  These are splits , not impossible to lead, nothing is impossible, but the quality has to be higher and... 

@ProfD

The question is, how do you lead an internally multiracial community that is only getting more and more multiracial per day?  The 1960s opened up the immigration doors in the usa but as someone i know who advocates for immigrants said very wisely, governments in general, don't tend to make comprehensive or wise immigration laws, looking forward. 

IN AMENDMENT

 I thought about your point, though worded differently initially,  who in the usa is as close to a confirmed black leader in the past? 

Sharpton is as close a copy to a black christian leader pre 1980s, which is what sharpton wanted when he started, by his own words. But a black christian leader is inadequate to the structure of the modern black populace in the usa 2023

@Troy

I will not suggest any human being is unable to act randomly or radically. I can say that many, often times most, chose not too. 

Al sharpton isn't the leader of the black community of nyc. so those who think similarly to me, which is not you, accept that  he can not be the leader of the black community of the usa. But I have no problem accepting you and those who think similarly to you see him as a black statian leader. 

@ProfD

and that character is what tschrumpf/obama/biden/clinton/bush jr or sr/al sharpton /cornell west/ocasio cortez/current governor hochul/eric adams/ plus many others are. 

of course it was a failure and corman mortgaged his house to pay for the film. but message doesn't sell like fun. It doesn't mean an artist has to present fun, but financially, the history of artistic revenue doesn't lie. 

@ProfD did you see the film? 

@ProfD 

a person can be well known or popular and be a leader.

I oppose your assertion that schrumpf is a leader, i consider him a mob guide, that goes back to his central park 5 opinion. it didn't lead, scrumpft comprehends a simple truth, the usa is a multiracial country which means a populace in every race in the usa: women/white/black/native/men/young/old/immigrant/christian/muslim/chinese/nigeiran/russian/any other you can think of dislike/hate everybody else. And the populace inside the white community in the usa that dislike/hate everybody else is large enough to be profitable in one way or another. 

The proof is the black followers, people say it is shocking but it isn't. The black community in the usa don't have anyone like Schrumpf. a black person , financially safe that can or desires to  mouthpiece pure dislike or hate with an anti immigratory or anti integrated position. 

Take a look at the film, the intruder, for free

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@Pioneer1 

Does the non basic form of your definition have percentages or specifics?

When you say safe, what do you mean? the NYPD has buildings full of domestic abuse cases they never bothered with. By safe what do you mean? 

When you say establishing hospitals does that include ability to reach hospitals? In NYC , historically, top quality healthcare has always been blockaded to the majority of the populace including even traveling. and throughout the usa, many don't have a hospital near where they live.

Based on your basic definition, it allows a majority of governments in humanity to b deemed effective or not effective based on the specificty your basic definition doesn't have ? is your basic definition effective in defining effective government then?