Ep36 – Tom Foolery
A lawyer, a host, and a comedian walk into a cyber bar and try to cut through some of the foolishness surrounding this week’s trending topics. This episode they discuss the growth of technology specifically death-proof cars and 3D interactive google glasses; why #OscarsSoWhite is trending again; The State of Film in America and whether Columbus Short secretly marrying Karrine “Super Head” Steffans should be a trending topic. If you consider yourself a conversational mixologist, then hit play, until the bartender cuts you off.
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January 24, 2016 @ 10:03 pm
I have no sympathy for black Hollywood. Black musicians have spent decades getting black music out to the WORLD despite the fact that radio stations wouldn’t play it. They did it with the blues, jazz, rock, and hip hop. They didn’t beg. They didn’t boycott radio stations. They used the chitlin circuit and got the music to the people without the help of the resources we have now. Black Hollywood has enough millionaires to create their own roles and movies. If the roles aren’t there MAKE them. If you put good work out here people will go and get it. Black Hollywood should have made their own studio and movie genre, sold out and woke back up by now.
January 24, 2016 @ 10:35 pm
Also Emile you can’t be afraid of being ignored by an organization that doesn’t accept you. Stop making the Oscars our standards. If we make good movies and have our own award shows to present those movies, eventually young white kids will want it. And when Hollywood sees that there is a demand for it, they will come around trying to buy it. But we have to have enough faith in ourselves and our talent to say that what we make is just as good. So if you get a NAACP award that’s just as good as an Oscar. Look at Hip Hop. They didn’t even wanna acknowledge it as real music at one point. And now it’s the most popular music on the planet and a lot of white people don’t even want to give black people credit for creating it. There is no reason for the Oscars to think that we are worth anything if we don’t value ourselves. It won’t happen overnight, but if we want black greatness in film we have to create it, not keep begging a racist system to do it for us.