Somebody Call Coolio: White Savior Movies
Why is it that every couple of years, white people bring another movie out about a white teacher who goes into the ghetto to show the darkies that life isn’t so bad? Showering their wholesome whiteness onto the underprivileged pickaninnies and thereby making everything right. Sound familiar?
Remember Dangerous Minds? Or how about Half Nelson? Or maybe you prefer Music from the Heart?
Well guess what? If you liked those flaming turds of patronizing passive racism, you’re going to love FREEDOM WRITERS, new from Hillary Swank.
Is this revenge for To Sir with Love?
Apparently, there must be a huge market for self-indulgent caucasian rescue fantasies where the white viewer gets to feel good about themselves while still actively being racist as all hell. It’s so embarrassing to watch, I can barely look at the trailer. This shit is like porn for liberals. The fact that they are clueless to this just makes it worse.
(That said, PLEASE vote Democrat this November. Liberals can be annoying and silly, but goofy is better than fucking evil.)
3 Comments:
Matt,
My best friend in the US is born and bred pennsylvanian liberal but we argue online everyday. Mostly about things which he in his well meaning liberal blindness cannot see, no matter how much we argue. I wrote this blog, "White Martyrs and Black Savages," about movies like The last King of Scotland and Shooting Dogs and he just could not understand why these movies offended me just as much as Birth of a Nation did. He didn't understand why I still think Heart of Darkness is racist even if Achebe no longer thinks so. He didn't understand how much it enrages me, when Africa and Asia are rendered in one dimension so that the white characters are rendered in three and more than that, when white characters come to save us. But this is what got him, my assertion that even fellow blacks have taken me to task on: that Africans who practice attrocities are merely imitating Europeans.
Love your site and your blog.
Hey Matt,
Great post. But you forgot the TV special "The Ron Clark Story" on TNT back in August! :)
Check out this post for more info, and for a detailed breakdown of the formula for these white savior flicks:
http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/08/07/the-white-savior-returns-has-it-been-3-years-already/
or
http://tinyurl.com/v56dh
Thanks CVK,
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. I must have blocked that movie out of my mind, due to trauma.
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