A movie about real black people in America, not black musicians or athletes. The Oregonian will demand a new Bible to stop this. http://www.nba.com/blazers/fans/25_point_pledge.html
Big ups for Dame being the change he wants to see in the World. Saw Fruitvale Station a week ago and was pretty speechless. I get on Facebook the next day and my good friend living in Oakland had posted about hearing a dozen gunshots near Fruitvale the night before, right around the time I caught the flick. Pretty crazy.
I guess that's the answer to "where the fuck is Wallace"... [video=youtube;YrSy9r0-lMg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrSy9r0-lMg[/video] (I've also seen him in Burn Notice. Bit of a come down. But they seem to go after Wire actors.)
Without making this too much of a social issue, the number of youths killed in Fruitvale and similar neighborhoods in this country are a travesty, yet the only time these hell-holes get any media and political exposure is when it involves some sort of racial aspect. If the politicians were sincere about helping out these troubled areas, it would be an everyday effort, and not just once a year in order to score political points based on color.
The Wire was such a great show. Wallace living in the abandoned apartment with a bunch of grade-school kids and trying to 'parent' them was one of the most jarring moments of the entire series for me. Kids really do grow up that way in inner cities.
The thread is about Dame's response to the movie. Not someone else's comments on Oakland, someone who doesn't even live there.
The movie is about Oakland. I made a commentary about poor neighborhoods and the senseless deaths in them all over the country. I'm just happy you didn't turn this into another thread about homophobes ... yet.
