As reported on Entertainment Weekly blog, Sinbad the comedian from TV, 1987's A different world and Movie past(Cherokee Kid and first Kid), has decided to bless us with his take on current events. The comedian has taken a serious stance on what SNL's Fred Armisen; Barack Obama Sketch and also feels that the issues that Barack Obama's Pastor has raised are important topics that need to be discussed.
He stated; "If you have not lived as a minority you don't have to pay attention to a lot of things in America. And then when it's brought up...they get mad, they don't want you to bring it up, they get angry," Sinbad told EW.com. "I mean sometimes, even as minorities, you don't want to say it. But you know what, you gotta say it, you can't let it go and people get all bent out of shape. That's why I'm glad the whole thing came up with Barack; I'm glad everything came up with the pastor. Everybody's freaked out like... this man was anti-American. How can he be anti-American? He's a marine. He's saying what he felt about America at a given time."
As for the Black face SNL skit, Sinbad sees the whole thing as simple economics. "It's just Hollywood," he said. "Hollywood could care less. Hollywood is about bank, it's not about finding a black entertainer. As long as it's bringing money to the box office. It's cut and dry. It is what it is."
The last statement goes well with a dose of Spike Lee's comments about movie budgets and financing, for African Americans films. The topic of race rounds out the meal. A full course one; that Americans, African and European decent, need to sit down and eat slowly, digesting every fortified point of interest. coming to a common ground that they will realize they have always live on in the first place. They just have to be willing to listen to one another and not overshadow with their own points of interest. Each longstanding idea is more of a way of life, and needs care if it is to be molded to fit into the global picture of peace and upward social progress.
Understanding race for what it really is does something for all life on this planet. Something really good, like a glass of milk and a bowl of warm cereal does for your mourning. It is time that all citizens of the worlds biggest brother has a face with diverse characters. Hollywood has gotten away with Tunnel Vision because it is focused on the earnings and the old way of doing things( which is complex in of itself). Guess what American love to watch black folk, we watch them in the stores, cant wait to see them on the news, grab our purses tighter and stare at them like side show animals. Since Americans are looking so intently it is time to give them something to look at that is honest and true, and not this one note song and dance routine that has become quite old and annoying like the Wayens Brothers.
As far as reverend wright goes he is addressing a need out of anger much like a disgruntled mate that loves, its family and spouse, but would like to see universal consideration in their agreement and disagreements. Americans needs to stop ignoring what it has been married to for so long. Divorces are ugly and in the end neither party wins if separation is all that is possible. So for America to remain married to itself it has to be first honest with what that marriage is facing, in order for the relationship to stay intact.
These issues have a need, and that is attention and respect. However it starts in our homes. We are the consumers and we have to show America that we require more than the typical coin toss to see who gets what on television, in the movies, in music, on the socioeconomic scale, and in general American Society( education, greeting your neighbors, etc.). America has been drunk on its own lies for far too long, and the misconceptions are ruing otherwise great relationships and opportunities for growth in one of the greatest empires man has ever known.
America needs to heal and it can only do that if it eats the right food. A food that goes by the name of honesty, with a side of consideration, alongside truth, and wash it all down with opportunity for true growth. Frederick Buechner, an American Clergyman born in 1926 said;
" Compassion is sometime the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you."
America is real, and can grow to be honest and one nation for all. Who are we kidding we are all
related some how any way whether we are 9th cousins twice removed or not. We share something and if Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt and more than a handful of our American Presidents, that tells you that perhaps that guy or girl that you shunned is your possible relative.
Remember America the truth will be told whether by science or rhetoric.
