Re: Tom Cruise: Queer as a 3$ bill

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From: Giftzwerg
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:57

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In article <d8JX9.4408$XP2.2760@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>, 
j_anise@hotmail.com says...

> Ok, there are movies out there.  But how many of those films are of any
> quality?  How many of them are not of the new boneheaded, brainless
> blaxploitation genre?  And where are all the other people?  Where are the
> Asians?  Where are the Latinos?  Where are the Other?  How often is there a
> non-White character in a film starring White actors who is not:  the
> gardner, the housekeeper, the token kung fu bad guy, the smuggled-in
> helpless immigrant, the America-hating terrorist, the spirtual, mystic Asian
> caricature, the comic-relief Black caricature, etc., etc.?  And what about
> multiracial people?   Don't you think there's something to be said by or
> learned from us?  We'd like to see stories about ourselves too, and not the
> regular baloney "I didn't know where I fit in" TV-movie fodder.  That's so
> 1982.

Based on this, my proposal would be to create a character based around, 
"The whining, serially-aggrieved online ethnic who sees Whitey 
everywhere."

-- 
Giftzwerg
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