While racism will never wholly disappear, it would be a footnote in American culture if it wasn't being artificially propped up by so many institutions in our country holding megaphones much bigger than they deserve.
As I wrote previously, a film was released recently called "The American Society of Magical Negroes." It's being billed as a "satire" but, in truth, it's an incredibly racist film that hides behind the supposed victimhood of black people by white oppressors to sell its racism as moral humor.
The film is a certified flop, having bombed harder than an American plane over Japan in WW2. Meaning that no one wanted to see it, including the black community who apparently had little interest in watching a movie's message boiled down to "stop being cool around white people":
As per information collected by The Numbers, the Justice Smith-led film was barely able to pass the 1 million mark, making a total of $1,304,270 on opening weekend — debuting on 1,147 theaters across the United States. While the film’s production budget is being kept under wraps, these numbers are still abysmal.
To better illustrate, The American Society of Magical Negroes grossed a mere $524,695 on Friday, a measly $469,070 on Saturday, and an even more pathetic $310,505 on Sunday, seeing a 34% drop from opening day.
The film was roundly lambasted, not just because it was blatantly racist, but because it was not at all good. The story goes from a "satire" to a story about a love triangle that causes the film to meander, almost like it was made for one particular point to be made, and then, once that point is made, it's not sure what to do anymore.
But the director of the film, Kobi Libii, has come to the film's defense and says that the movie was inspired by his own experience as a black man in Hollywood, and that this further highlights the "systems of White power" that America is brd on:
The film's larger message was to expose the "comforting fantasy" White people live in, believing that Black people enjoy living under "systems of White power" in America, he argued.
"One of the things critics talk about is that the ‘magical negro’ trope is a ‘happy slave’ trope," Libii told JoBlo Celebrity Interviews. "It imagines that Black people love fitting themselves into systems of White power. That we're actually quite happy to do that, right? Which I think for a White majority is a really comforting fantasy."
"It's like, ‘Oh, OK, it’s all OK,' like America didn't do anything bad. 'It's all OK,' right? That fantasy I think is really compelling for White people," he continued.
In the same interview, the film's protagonist, played by actor Justice Smith, revealed he also related to his character's experience having to "make himself small" to make the White people around him "feel comfortable."
Firstly, I'm learning that there are bubbles within bubbles in Hollywood. I immediately can't take Libii's blurb here seriously because Hollywood is probably one of the most woke places in the world. This is the place that has diversity inspectors moving around some film sets to make sure enough people of color are employed. This is the place where they awarded a movie about a gay, black man picture of the year, even though nobody wanted to see it.
And I'm curious about what systems of "white power" this man is talking about here in America. The same one that elected a black man president? The same one that has a black justice on the Supreme Court? The same one that features black CEOs, athletes, musicians, and workers of every kind?
How about the one that hardly lifted a finger while riots overtook cities and towns all over the country, while it slapped the movement's motto, "Black Lives Matter," on the side of buildings, at the end of NFL football fields, and on start-up screens on video games?
Is that the "white power" system he's talking about?
Here's the brutal truth. America is not a racist country, but there are race baiters like Libii who wish it was. Every Al Sharpton, Joy Reid, Ayanna Pressley, and the like would suddenly find themselves irrelevant and destitute, if racism was found to be the least threatening thing in America tomorrow. It is in their best interest to scare people into believing a tiki torch-bearing weirdo is hiding around every corner.
There are racists in the nation (you can find quite a few of them on MSNBC), but a handful of racists in a nation of millions does not a racist country make, Mrs. Obama.
I'm so sick of this idea that America is playing host to thousands of KKK cookouts and that if a white person so much as sneezes, it's a sure sign of racism. I can count the number of legitimately racist white people I've ever met in my life personally on one hand, and even then, most of them were paranoid idiots who had some very weird theories about Jewish people.
And "paranoid idiot" is kind of how I view all racists, including the black racists who hate white people so much that they're willing to make a really bad movie about it.
American culture is not a white culture. That much is clear. So many different races are involved in crafting it that many of you can literally go on your Uber app right now and have a selection of varied cuisines from across the globe made by people hailing from those areas at your door in minutes.
Walk into a city and you'll find yourself surrounded by a myriad of different ethnicities going about their daily lives, melding with one another to the point where race is hardly the most important thing about them.
This is not a racist nation. This is not a racist culture.