Music and Movies

I never said I hated Queen Latifah. I love Queen Latifah! But she as a star does have some say over the lines she is asked to deliver in a film...and shame on the writers, too. My daughter happens to have some black ancestry...folks make the mistake of calling her black. I tell her, "You're not black, you're brown!" At any rate, she likes Country music and sings it well. She has all the possibility of going into it that I ever had. But besides that, I felt that this line in the film slighted Charlie Pride and, frankly, I really didn't like the attitude it conveyed which I have seen in real life. It was a pretty ignorant comment and I have never considered Queen an ignorant person.

You are right, it was pretty racist. It bothers me that a racist remark is acceptable if it comes from a black person. It should never be acceptable from anyone. When I was pregnant with my daughter, a friend tried to tell me to get an abortion because of her Afrikani ancestry. I told her the people who matter won't care about her skin color and those who do care don't matter. That has been my attitude from day one and it continues to be the attitude in her. I'm so proud of her! LOL...One day some of my daughter's schoolmates called her "African American" and she replied with "I've never been to Africa in my life! I'm just plain American!" My family has always been a melting pot...my sister married a man with Japanese ancestry and we have a Mohawk ancestor as well. Another sister married a man with German Jewish ancestry. I grew up color blind and could never understand the fuss folks made over skin color. MLK always preached that it was what was on the inside that mattered and it bothers me to see folks who claim admire Dr King continue to propagate that ignorance that he fought so long and hard against. I recognize only one race: the human race.

oh i see. considering that a black country singer does exist, then it really was an ignorant remark. racist, wasn't it? i guess, there's still a lot of work to be done on that. actually, it's the first time i've heard of charlie pride, so i looked him up. i'll probably listen to some of his songs some time.:) hope your daughter gets a break.:) i do sing too, and play a little guitar; but i love the security and comfort of a private space when "performing". hahaXD and by the way, like your daughter, i'm also brown. haha;)

I did not get that impression from the movie. But my point was that she completely ignored Charlie Pride and his entire career as a Country singer. He was black and he sang Country and had more than one hit! True, there are not very many black Country singers out there...I think Darius Rucker is only the second black man I know of to take on Country music...and I have yet to hear any of his music since he made the switch to Country. But still...it's more that they are not interested in Country than that they aren't "allowed" into Country. Queen was implying the latter.

I watched City of Angels. It was a passable film but I can't say that it was one that I would watch again. It just didn't make an impression on me...plus I really don't care for Nicolas Cage. About the only film of his I would want to watch again was The Family Man. Now, that was a cute show.