Red Hook Summer Collaborator James McBride: Hollywood Forces Black Artists to Be 'Cultural Maids'
Days after the polarizing Red Hook Summer hit Sundance, co-writer/co-producer James McBride unleashed a passionate missive comparing the black artists' experience to cultural servitude: "You get to drive the well-meaning boss to and fro, you love that boss, your lives are stitched together, but only when the boss decides your story intersects with his or her life is your story valid. Because you’re a kind of cultural maid. You serve up the music, the life, the pain, the spirituality. You clean house. Take the kids to school. You serve the eggs and pour the coffee. And for your efforts the white folks thank you. They pay you a little. They ask about your kids. Then they jump into the swimming pool and you go home to your life on the outside, whatever it is. And if lucky you get to be the wise old black sage that drops pearls of wisdom, the wise old poet or bluesman who says ‘I been buked and scorned,’ and you heal the white folks, when in fact you can’t heal anybody." [40Acres.com]
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Remember at the Golden Globes, when that MILF from The Queen told Morgan Freeman, "I could've been Miss Daisy"? Yeah, that was AWESOME.
No, wait, I meant: That was AWKWARD.
That whole presentation turned out to be very awkward...the clips they chose to show, the music they played when he walked up on stage...all subtle racism in action.
Could not agree more.
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