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Jan. 17th, 2010 10:15 amStolen from a poet friend of J's blog:
Drew wonders why it took Avatar, a movie about blue aliens, for the blogs to identify a white messiah complex in film. The must not have noticed the 20 or so movies from recent years centered on the white teacher / coach coming to save the "urban youth."
We should totally do a themed movie night: magical negro meets the white messiah!
Drew wonders why it took Avatar, a movie about blue aliens, for the blogs to identify a white messiah complex in film. The must not have noticed the 20 or so movies from recent years centered on the white teacher / coach coming to save the "urban youth."
We should totally do a themed movie night: magical negro meets the white messiah!
