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Kola
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 09:13 pm: | |
Thumper thank you so much for seeing that.
And let me also say that I am a huge fan of our lighter sisters like Halle Berry, Jada, Pearl Cleage, Veronica Webb and Mama Lena Horne (as I bet THumper is too). Whenever we speak up about colorism--many lighter women automatically assume that we have some kind of mark against them. In my books...I always make it a point to showcase the range of black women from the darkest (charcoal) to the lightest (vanilla)--I use the American System. A lot of black women write to me and thank me for that (almost always the very dark ones). Trust me, it's not easy slipp'n that MANY black women into one book, but I do it for political reasons and you'll never read a book of mines where [ALL] black children of every hue aren't celebrated.
Knowing Cynique...I bet she was just playing devil's advocate.
BAYOU LIGHTS...
As Bette Davis said--all the films she made were written by MEN and she often fought extremely hard to have lines of dialogue changed...she was particularly incensed over a line in the film "ALL ABOUT EVE" and she lost the battle. Here's the line:
"Sad really...all the things a woman [with a career] has to drop on her way to the top--only to find herself lacking when it's time to get back to being a woman."
BETTE HATED THAT LINE!! And she said loud and clear that only "a man" would write such a thing for a woman to say. She herself had been both a career woman and a wife and mother, so she didn't feel that the two were mutually exclusive as so many men in the 1940's (when the 1950 film was written as a play) THOUGHT.
I've very often watched films or read books and thought to myself..."NOW you know a man wrote that mess."
OR WORSE....Remember that soap opera DYNASTY when they had Diahann Carroll and Joan Collins come face to face in a big argument??? WHO DO YOU THINK GOT ALL THE GOOD LINES? White lady ofcourse. SHE TOLD DIAHANN CARROLL OFF!! and then walked out with a musical score vibrato. I remember thinking..."Cain't no white woman tell off no RICH black woman like that." I was just a kid...that whole week I sat in my clubhouse writing Comeback Lines for Diahann Carroll...and then I mailed it into DYNASTY. (*I had my interpreter write it out for me--she thought it was cute, but I was SERIOUS).
AND IN PAUL BEATTY'S BOOK, "The White Boy Shuffle"...he had this Asian girl "intimidate" and "tell off" some black street girls. I was like...yeah, a black man wrote this mess. Them girls would have tore her ass up!! (*I love Paul..but his blind love for ASIAN WOMEN often makes him write very untrue portraits of black women--for instance--we all have a nasty attitude). Ditto for John Edgar Wideman and his super-bad White girls. Dearest Please!
I myself was confronted by an Asian woman--a China girl--and it turns out...(WITHOUT A SCRIPT)...they don't know too much Kung Fu.
And I haven't run across one race of woman (including African women) who can TELL OFF a Black American woman. But on movie screens...we see it all the time. Remember how Julia Roberts told off that black female co-worker in "ERIN BROKAVICH"? How about the white girl telling off the black club girl in "Party Girl"? Amazingly in these films...black women are left speechless (and quick!)
MEN WRITE THESE SCRIPTS.
MEN WRITE THESE SCRIPTS.
MEN WRITE THESE SCRIPTS.
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