Twin Cities film fest to open with Jackson movie 'The Wiz'

One sequined glove will be the fashion choice of many attending opening night of the 2009 Twin Cities Black Film Festival.

[concerned]

How many shootings will there be at this "event"?
Why can't there be a Twin Cities White film festival?

[Stephen Canavan]

Big deal, a movie with a child molester.

[Little Boy Blue]

Mommy! He touched my pee-pee!

[Zero]

Starting out a Black film festival with a film directed and written by a white guys. Amazing!

[Chebama]

First of all having a film festival that excludes all other groups is inherently racist. Imagine the cries if there was a white film festival. We need to stop seperating ourselves by the color of our skin into sub groups. We will never have racial harmony until we all consider ourselves one big (albeit disfunctional) American family.

[sheepy]

concerned wrote:

How many shootings will there be at this "event"?
Why can't there be a Twin Cities White film festival?

There is. It is the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival.

[sheepy]

Chebama wrote:

First of all having a film festival that excludes all other groups is inherently racist. Imagine the cries if there was a white film festival. We need to stop seperating ourselves by the color of our skin into sub groups. We will never have racial harmony until we all consider ourselves one big (albeit disfunctional) American family.

Is the Jewish Film Festival racist?

[Chebama]

sheepy wrote:

<quoted text>Is the Jewish Film Festival racist?

If you're talking about the religion no. It would be no different than a Muslim or Christian film festival.

[sheepy]

Chebama wrote:

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If you're talking about the religion no. It would be no different than a Muslim or Christian film festival.

So then why can't there be a black film fest? You don't have to be black to attend. It would be the same as having a film fest restricted to one genre, wouldn't it?

[Workaday Oakdale Brother]

Great choice! Nice way to honor MJ! I may have to "ease on down the road" and catch The Wiz!

[Ted]

What a shameful waste!! That pervert Michael Jackson is one of the worst people to ever walk the planet!!

[Larry]

Workaday Oakdale Brother wrote:

Great choice! Nice way to honor MJ! I may have to "ease on down the road" and catch The Wiz!

Are you some kind of pervert too? You better not be wizzing in public. "Ease on down the road" is a horrible use of the English language. Why don't you go back to school?

[Workaday Oakdale Brother]

Why don't *you* watch something other than The Blue Collar Comedy Tour or Miracle on Ice and realize that I was alluding to a song from The Wiz?

You're a silly goose who is obviously very ignorant of Black culture. I bet that if I had alluded to "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess, you would have "corrected" that as well.

Larry wrote:

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Are you some kind of pervert too? You better not be wizzing in public. "Ease on down the road" is a horrible use of the English language. Why don't you go back to school?

[Workaday Oakdale Brother]

BTW, listening to Motown with you must be a *real* chore...when you hear Smokey Robinson sing "I Second That Emotion", you probably mutter to yourself "Uh, what a dummy...that should be 'I Second That Motion'".

Larry wrote:

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Are you some kind of pervert too? You better not be wizzing in public. "Ease on down the road" is a horrible use of the English language. Why don't you go back to school?

[Al R]

Glad I don't live in MN if these comments are representative of the mindset that exists there.

[Hey Now]

Workaday Oakdale Brother wrote:

BTW, listening to Motown with you must be a *real* chore...when you hear Smokey Robinson sing "I Second That Emotion", you probably mutter to yourself "Uh, what a dummy...that should be 'I Second That Motion'".
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I've always thought it was second hand emotion. Doh!! Great song!!

[RBG]

"The Wiz" was one of the biggest box office
turkeys in Hollywood history. People will be
snoring in the movie house, like they did over
30 years ago. There's a reason Wacko never
became a movie star.