Oscar nominations for Precious and The Blind Side seem to have increased nonsensical attacks that the films are racist
As someone who did voter registration in the South during the 1960s, I am dismayed at the negative criticism now being voiced against two films, Precious and The Blind Side, that deal with the problems of growing up as a black person in America. The multiple Oscar nominations that both films have received have, if anything, increased the attacks on them.
Sadly, the attacks represent a racial step backwards rather than forward. If such criticism had been heeded in the 1960s, when "We Shall Overcome" was the anthem of the civil rights movement, it would have been fatal to a political movement that depended on black-white alliances for its successes.
The boldest civil rights undertaking of the era, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, in which white and black college students ran...
As someone who did voter registration in the South during the 1960s, I am dismayed at the negative criticism now being voiced against two films, Precious and The Blind Side, that deal with the problems of growing up as a black person in America. The multiple Oscar nominations that both films have received have, if anything, increased the attacks on them.
Sadly, the attacks represent a racial step backwards rather than forward. If such criticism had been heeded in the 1960s, when "We Shall Overcome" was the anthem of the civil rights movement, it would have been fatal to a political movement that depended on black-white alliances for its successes.
The boldest civil rights undertaking of the era, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, in which white and black college students ran...
- 2/22/2010
- by Nicolaus Mills
- The Guardian - Film News
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