10/14/2007
Very Not Surprised
Yesterday I decided to go see a movie with my sister and my mom and I was looking forward to it for a good while now. I like going to the movies and I usually only go like once or twice a year. This year has been special, we have gone three times already. If we had gone for orange chicken it would have been the best year in a little while. Anyhow, we went to go see a Tyler Perry movie. For those of you who don’t know, he is a very wealthy black man who makes movie with an all black cast. Not normally my thing but I enjoy the lesson he brings across in all of his movies and plays. I never really thought too much about who would be coming to the movie other than us. Usually when we go, the movie has been out for a while and there are few people in the theater with us. We normally have a very quiet enjoyable time watching movies with family and other people who enjoy the same movie as we do. QUIETLY. But this time I should have thought things through. I knew that we were going to watch it in Benton Harbor but I didn’t think about the fact that the movie had only been out for one day and there was going to be a big crowd. Luckily we got there early, but it was only seconds before the seats around us started to fill up. I was nor so surprised when a few people walked in but it did trouble me that they were ALL black. Now I may be black at skin but it is surely against my will. I take no practice in what they call, their culture, rap, materialism, being obnoxiously loud, saying asinine things. I’m not saying that they all do it but I have only met very few who don’t. I can count the amount on my hands.
Well anyhow, as soon as the theater was full it was hard enough to hear myself think. There was so many people. When the movie started they were quiet for a while. I thought I would be able to enjoy the movie. Then a funny part happened and they talked about it at least fifteen minutes after it was over. There were loud people in front of me, in back of me, beside me, it was terrible. I have never been in a room with so many black people before in my life! I should have known better than to go to that movie. I sooo regret it now. Bet you 50,000,000 yen that would never happen in Japan. I have got to get out of this country.
The thing that pissed me off the most was how inappropriate they were acting. When someone in the movie would cry, they would laugh. And then when someone in the movie would be happy about something and sigh they would blow it way out of proportion as if the person were moaning or something. Then it got even worse when my mom started laughing and chatting on with a guy next to her. Poor guy at first looked like he just wanted to watch the movie but then he started laughing and talking with her just as well. She kept raising her hands up and screaming amen and clapping her hands when a girl gave a guy just what he deserved. I sunk so low down in that chair. My sister kept shaking her head and apologizing to me. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that that is how the people were acting. That is the only way they are portrayed on TV and in movies. At least in Tyler Perry movies they show black people with nice jobs, doing as well as anybody else. Not like these movies that portray black people as only people who live in the ghetto, struggle for a way out which is only found through dance and raping. I find that to be the saddest thing about these movies like Stomp the yard. They all only show black people excelling through dance and raping. Like they can be good at nothing else. These black kids grow up thinking that this is their only way into the good life. Black guys at the Benton Harbor high school all think they can rap. Talking fast along with a beat about some girl’s a** is not raping. That’s calling being a jackass with no future. They could at least try to have some meaning behind it. God it pisses me off.
I couldn’t even talk to my mom after the movie. I don’t want to talk about it with her ever again. But ranting like this is okay since close to no one will ever read it. All and all it was a good movie. I don’t think I will be going to the movie much next year. I will just wait until it comes out on DVD. Or until the next Harry potter movie comes out. That I can’t miss….I know some of you might read this and think, “OMG what is wrong with this girl. She is racially prejudiced to her own people. That messed up.” I swear to you that it is not like that. I do not hate black people. I would just rather not talk to or be around them as much as I was in that movie or during my years at high school.
I will be so glad once this faze is over. It used to be that black people were all about black power and doing as well for yourself as any other race. I wonder when that turned into finding an easy way into the rap and dance world so you can show other people that they aren’t up on that jewelry and cars that you have. I find these behaviors so useless in the lives of our future children. I hope they will get there in the near future. But I won’t be there. I’m getting out of here. See ya’ll later. I’m going to Japan.
Song I’m Listening To: I Heard Them Say
By: Kanye West
Mood: Disappointed stare
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