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Sidney Poitier, enemy of the people

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 1:15 MJA Uncategorized 28

The problem with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? is it stars Sidney Poitier.
He’s too white.

28 Comments on Sidney Poitier, enemy of the people

  3. I haven’t seen a single movie he’s been in.

    But then again, I never saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s until a few years ago. It’s a “girl” movie. Mickey Rooney was HYSTERICAL as Mr. Hirohito or whatever. It just comes at you out of left field. The rest of the movie is mush. Mickey Rooney is gold.

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  6. Was Sydney Poitier ever in an A-TEAM episode?

    Can’t quite place him. It’s like he was on Wacky Racers, or Scooby-Doo meets Sydney Poitier or something.

    (They met the globe trotters, I hardly think meeting Sydney Poitier would have made waves.)

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  7. …from the link…

    “They pose the problem Lincoln does by casting white people in a good light. Their rewrite of emancipation holds that while white people busied themselves with a civil war over states rights, those clever black people liberated themselves from slavery on Juneteenth. Liberals now make the same argument the Ku Klux Klan did in denying the civil war was about slavery.”

    …so that’s how they’re waving away the hundreds of thousands who died ending slavery in America, by just claiming that wasn’t what they were doing.

    Which would have been a great surprise to the Northern soldier.

    “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, still sung today, was pretty explicit;

    “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
    With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me
    As he died to make men holy let us die to make men free
    His truth is marching on”

    …nope, not about slavery, no sir!/s

    …but the Northern soldier was just as likely to sing this!;

    “We will welcome to our numbers
    The loyal, true and brave,
    Shouting the battle cry of Freedom;
    And although they may be poor,
    Not a man shall be a slave,
    Shouting the battle cry of Freedom.”
    -“The Battle Cry of Freedom”

    https://soundcloud.com/civil-war-trust

    …but sure, it was only about states rights, yep person, go with that, the Blacks liberated themselves and those White people weren’t even trying to help, uh huh…

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  8. Well, Sidney Poitier was most agregious as a black “white” man (sarc), in the movie, “To Sir With Love- 1967” portraying an architect turned teacher.. who, get this…taught cockney and other inner city white kids in a Britain high school how to be exceptionally “white”. Leftist heads explode. Too much irony.

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  9. Oh woe, cursed to be clean and articulate and good looking.

    If only he had married a linebacker who would make the critics back off with ‘her’ mean, angry demeanor.

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  12. Just watched one of his movies, Lillies of the Field, on the VCR (Yes, I still have one of those and it works) over the weekend. Good movie. The left prefers Harry Bellafonte because he’s a loudmouth liberal.

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  13. Poitier is cancelled because he appealed to whites?
    So if white people like black actors that means they bad, too white and should have their careers ended?

    These frigging whiners will never be happy because they don’t want to be happy.

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  14. From the comment section of the linked story. It’s a long read for these days, but if you can concentrate long enough on one thing, this is worth the time it takes to read it:

    R.C.March 7, 2021 at 2:10 PM

    OK,

    I’ve read this story four or five times now, here and elsewhere, and I still don’t get it.

    What are they objecting to, re: Poitier?

    I mean, we have this quote: “…there are aspects of his films that are clearly oriented primarily to white audiences.”

    Like what? What aspect is “oriented” (one presumes this means “entertaining” or “endearing” to People of Pallor that isn’t just as entertaining/endearing to People of Color? Any examples?

    It continues: “That opens up all kinds of complications for black viewers who felt that he wasn’t a representative of the race as a whole.”

    Well who the hell ever IS representative of any sufficiently-larger group of people? Does every Swede think himself perfectly represented by Al Pacino? Every Londoner, by Steve Martin? Every Kansan, by Danny DeVito?

    Why, then, should every Nigerian or Kenyan think himself adequately-represented by a guy from the Bahamas?

    For that matter, why should every Bahamian think himself well-represented by one particular actor from the Bahamas? Did every American think themselves well-represented by Donald Trump?

    In fact, what’s the underlying premise of expecting one man to represent a whole group of people? Are we now supposed to think that all persons born in a particular zip code are carbon copies of one another? If some Asian-American were to say, “Oh, you African-Americans all look and think alike,” would all the woke people smile and nod approvingly?

    …

    Here, at root, is the problem: I’m trying to parse some sense out of a wokester. But woke opinions never make sense; they’re not meant to make sense. They’re not assertions of truth-propositions (let alone arguments).

    All they really are is a mix of verbalized instinctual urges and desperate tribalist shibboleths emitted by persons who’ve sacrificed intellect to ideology. Wokesters don’t say woke things because they think them. They say woke things for the same reason ducks go quack and cows go moo.

    So I should give up on frustratedly parsing the un-parse-able. It’s a category error to expect antireason to be reasonable. When a dog urinates on a fire hydrant, he’s not committing an act of vandalism, he’s just being a dog.

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  15. Destroy all the time honored norms of civilization and subtly replace them with new ones that you want instead to recreate civilization in the image you want, that’s what all this is about even if most people involved in doing it don’t realize they are.

    It’s a highly comprehensive thing that is taking place in every aspect of our culture, society, and personal lives.

    The deliberate intent of the powers behind this is not one that is good for mankind or the future of mankind. It has an entirely different and destructive goal and will likely succeed to a large degree.

    IMO, I may be wrong and there is really a glorious new future world ahead of us instead.

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  16. Watch out Diahann Carroll–you will be next! She starred in a TV show (premiered in ’68) called “Julia” as an RN. I was thrilled to have a role model on TV at the time because I was in my senior year of high school and preparing to go to college to become an RN (and ultimately an Army nurse). She was so beautiful, smart, feisty and happened to be black. I guess she will be cancelled now.

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  19. ǝpɐɥsʇɥɓᴉuɹǝdnS
    MARCH 10, 2021 AT 2:24 AM

    Funny,, but I cut that same paragraph from the article and was going to paste it here with a similar (but less eloquent) comment as yours.

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  22. The wokesters of today would be just fine with a remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” if the Potier’s character was played by some rapper and the film was rename, “Guess Who Be Comin’ to Beat Yo’ Honkey Azz, Crackah!”

    Fuck all Gen Z and Millennial wokesters. They are the scum of the earth, a garbage generation that is fully irredeemable.

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  27. We watch a lot of the old movies on TCM on demand.
    Lots of the old movies have the leading man or leading lady refer to “feeling gay” (in the classic meaning of that word before the queers redefined it from happy and lighthearted to being totally perverted.
    They even had a movie called “The Gay Divorcée).
    Hell, even The Flintstones theme song can offend.

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  28. Many years ago I took my younger sister on a trip to New York.
    We went to the Russian Tea room one evening for dinner and Sidney Poitier was in the booth right next to us.
    My sister saw him right away and got very excited and waved to him.
    He sent a waiter to our table who said Mr. Poitier wanted to buy us a drink.
    My sister was too young to drink so we both ordered cokes. We thanked him and had a brief conversation. Before he left the restaurant he stopped by the table and asked my sister her name and gave her an autograph.
    He was such a nice man. My sister was thrilled and couldn’t wait to tell her friends.
    Poitier was a great actor but, he was also very kind to treat my little sister in a such special way.

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