Addicted to Race 126 – gay rights, Precious, black men on CNN, mommy memoirs
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is our weekly talk show podcast about all things race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode:
What are some strategies for overcoming resistance to gay rights in the African-American community? Does the movie Precious exploit black dysfunction? Did CNN’s special on “Black Men in the Age of President Obama” reinforce stereotypes about black gay men? Given the popularity of “mommy memoirs,” why aren’t there more women of color writing these books? Tami Winfrey Harris, Andrea Plaid, and Dumi Lewis discuss.
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brownstocking wrote:
just now hearing the podcast, and I completely disagree that “Black” films are pegged as representative of a Black culture. I’ve distanced myself from most “Black” films precisely because they don’t reflect my life or reality.
I live in a small city, and it amazed me that I couldn’t see “Good Hair” but “Precious” got hella fanfare. And we’re about 4% Black. So, no I’m not enthused about a bunch of non-white people seeing this and extrapolating on the entire American Black ethnic group, yet again.
And the film, quite frankly, was mediocre in production, problematic in tone, and didn’t even capture the essence of the 80s. It was lazy.
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 2:45 pm ¶