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Movie Review: What Black Men Think
by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
If you take nothing else from this review, remember this:
That often-touted statistic that there are more black men in jail than in college? That’s a myth.
In the documentary What Black Men Think, director Janks Morton takes a sledgehammer to the falsehoods and misconceptions that are used to describe and categorize black men. Using expert opinions and cold hard facts, Morton tackles popular perceptions and assumptions that plague black men to this day. (Racialicious has mentioned the film before, here and here.)
Assumptions include:
- There are more black men in jail than there are in college
- The crack epidemic and the resulting violence in the black community
- Black Men on the DL and the AIDS crisis
- “I can’t find a black man because they all want white women.”
- Black Men don’t pay child support.
The trailer for the film addresses some of these statistics directly.
Movie Review: What Black Men Think
by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
If you take nothing else from this review, remember this:
That often-touted statistic that there are more black men in jail than in college? That’s a myth.
In the documentary What Black Men Think, director Janks Morton takes a sledgehammer to the falsehoods and misconceptions that are used to describe and categorize black men. Using expert opinions and cold hard facts, Morton tackles popular perceptions and assumptions that plague black men to this day. (Racialicious has mentioned the film before, here and here.)
Assumptions include:
- There are more black men in jail than there are in college
- The crack epidemic and the resulting violence in the black community
- Black Men on the DL and the AIDS crisis
- “I can’t find a black man because they all want white women.”
- Black Men don’t pay child support.
The trailer for the film addresses some of these statistics directly.
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Re: Reveiw: What Black Men Think.
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 11:26 AMNot addressing the content of this documentary directly, but a related idea: I recently heard on the radio a story about communications/political consultants a theory that media time focused negating an idea, statement, or story -- like "xyz is not true" -- actually ends up perpetuating the "xyz" and not the fact that it's not true in the majority of the public's mind. AND, if you want to successfully negate "xyz", you need to make a positve statement about something else. I guess this could also called "changing the subject".
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Re: Reveiw: What Black Men Think.
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 11:27 AMNot addressing the content of this documentary directly, but a related idea: I recently heard on the radio a story about communications/political consultants a theory that media time focused negating an idea, statement, or story -- like "xyz is not true" -- actually ends up perpetuating the "xyz" and not the fact that it's not true in the majority of the public's mind. AND, if you want to successfully negate "xyz", you need to make a positve statement about something else. I guess this could also called "changing the subject".
