11.1.12 Links Roundup

November 1st, 2012 by Racialicious Team

I seem to recall I had read somewhere that one of the Paeirs made a comment about “a Jap at the door” before picking up the gun. For years, I contemplated about the possible racist motivation behind the murder that has fascinated me since I first heard about it. Perhaps it was because I too was a “foreign student.” Imagine me being in Baton Rouge dressed up as a witch knocking on the Paeirs’ door. Would I have met the same fate?

Eddie Murphy, who was cast by Lee to play Brown, once told BlackTree TV that the script was a “great, great piece.”

However, Glazer decided to fire Lee and hired Tate Taylor. Taylor was the director of the film The Help.

Although the movie was critically-acclaimed, it lacked in story structure and failed to give a complete view of black life during that era. Essentially, it was a black story told from a white person’s point of view.

Before The Help, Tate only directed the lackluster film Pretty Ugly People.

His credentials are not adequate for a film as enormous as James Brown.

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  • Elton

    Re: For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones

    There is a perennial question in education about why so many Asian immigrants have such a strong cultural drive to study particular subjects (math, science, engineering, and medicine rather than humanities and arts) and study them in a particular way that focuses so strongly on tests and grades. There is much to be said about Confucianism and its lasting impact on Asians, as well as the limitations Asians face in American society. But I believe it is the pioneering generations–the first generation to immigrate to a new country and start a new life from the ground up, the first generation to attend college and attempt to navigate a completely different world from their parents’–that face particular socioeconomic pressures and are constrained by those pressures. Only generations later, once a small measure of social and financial security has been attained, are we more free to pursue the liberal arts and creative endeavors.

    My parents are immigrants and I am the first member of my family to go to college. I was frustrated when I was younger because I didn’t understand why I had to spend so much time studying and working when other young people seemed more free to hang out, date, play music, go to movies, etc. Now I understand. Their grandparents and great-grandparents did what my generation is trying to do–they laid a foundation for their descendants to have easier, freer lives. We must not forget the struggles of generations which are newer to America–the immigrant generations, the pioneering generations. It is because of their sacrifices that we have inherited our privileges and freedoms.

    I think John Adams said it best:

    “The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
    - Letter to Abigail Adams (12 May 1780).