Movie to reconsider ::: White Mans Burden
Thirteen years ago I was off in La La land, but a little know film breached my world of Sci-Fi Fantasy films and dropped a hypothetical atom bomb on my conscious mind. That film went by the name White mans Burden, starring John Travolta, and Harry Belafonte, and a great supporting cast. However I did not come to talk about the film and the year that it graced the silver screen. What I want to talk about is the impact that it almost had and why it did not have that and should regain over the next few years if Americans, want to face the race issues facing our country.
With a film like this set in an alternate America, it gave America, the chance to look at itself from the inside out. Taking apart the bigotry that plagues this country. Speaking on race, it shows that it does not matter the year or the time that it existed, what matters is that it exist and someone needs to put a stop to it, and the the racial malfunction. This film made that attempt to do so. However it was ahead of its time, and ahead of the questions that many Americans now desire the answers to.
I myself have seen a new American World, and society, however it is stifled by a past of pain and hatred, that is a boiling pot of hot water awaiting a volcanic spill on to the burning earth of racial malice. So what do we do in order to put a stop to it? I do not know the absolute answer to that question and if I did I would not offer it up that easy. What is important is that we take the time out to look for the solution and come up with ideas to break the wall in the racial cold war. Because there is a wall and the war is cold.
With White Mans Burden, I think it would be a silent step, but a crucial lesson for Americans to undertake in their own homes. This is an opportunity for them to learn the man in the mirror, but have a conversation with that man/woman, this time around. I am not one to push race into the face of the world, I am once to remind that we are all in it together and the sooner that we learn this the better our society will become.
As far as the film goes I am sure that we can take the time out to acknowledge great film making at some of its finest. Although this film is not about angles and the tech loving CGI, or the stars themselves, it bring that element so that you can enjoy this lesson as you would from your favorite professor.
Reality is the best university, however you have to be awake to learn. If you sleep walk through it, you will be left behind, or caught in a world wind of insult and grave lack. Every test you are thrown you will fail and have to take the lesson all over again and that pain in that is that time waits for no one. So stay on top of what it right in life and you will be able to make the world a better place.
With a film like this set in an alternate America, it gave America, the chance to look at itself from the inside out. Taking apart the bigotry that plagues this country. Speaking on race, it shows that it does not matter the year or the time that it existed, what matters is that it exist and someone needs to put a stop to it, and the the racial malfunction. This film made that attempt to do so. However it was ahead of its time, and ahead of the questions that many Americans now desire the answers to.
I myself have seen a new American World, and society, however it is stifled by a past of pain and hatred, that is a boiling pot of hot water awaiting a volcanic spill on to the burning earth of racial malice. So what do we do in order to put a stop to it? I do not know the absolute answer to that question and if I did I would not offer it up that easy. What is important is that we take the time out to look for the solution and come up with ideas to break the wall in the racial cold war. Because there is a wall and the war is cold.
With White Mans Burden, I think it would be a silent step, but a crucial lesson for Americans to undertake in their own homes. This is an opportunity for them to learn the man in the mirror, but have a conversation with that man/woman, this time around. I am not one to push race into the face of the world, I am once to remind that we are all in it together and the sooner that we learn this the better our society will become.
As far as the film goes I am sure that we can take the time out to acknowledge great film making at some of its finest. Although this film is not about angles and the tech loving CGI, or the stars themselves, it bring that element so that you can enjoy this lesson as you would from your favorite professor.
Reality is the best university, however you have to be awake to learn. If you sleep walk through it, you will be left behind, or caught in a world wind of insult and grave lack. Every test you are thrown you will fail and have to take the lesson all over again and that pain in that is that time waits for no one. So stay on top of what it right in life and you will be able to make the world a better place.
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