enosynce is virtuous

"She should've kept her mouth shut!"

...continuing on my rant on the silencing of the black woman, I shall recall a recent conversation I had with one of my friends. We were talking about films and movies, and got on the topic of the movie "Crash". Well, there's a scene in the movie involving Terrance Howard, so if you haven't seen the film yet, I suggest you stop reading now.
















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okay. I'll introduce you to what I call a "selective-hypocrite". S/he wants you to take his/her opinions as the gospel, but only when it invovles him/her winning the harmless debate. The film left a lot of things nclear, which I thought was great about the film, becasue it dealt with social issues and seemed like its main goal was to ingite discussion on these issues...so here goes:

The movie is filled with all types of stereotypes by the way...Terrance Howard's character is a successful black man/movie director with Uncle Tom tendancies. One of Terrance's actor employees gets caught "talking white", and Terrance's boss commanded the dude to start "talking black" or else.

I'll explain another scene...there's a racist white cop in the film, who just got a call on a stolen vehicle. Terrance and his wife are in an expensive SUV, leaving some sort of formal dinner-type thing I guess. Terrance's wife has on a nice dress, and Terrance is dressed professionally. Observably, the wife has had one too many cocktails, and is in the car babbling over nothing in the passenger seat. Coincidentally, the racist white cop sees Terrance ride by, and he snaps on his sirens (even though Terrance's car doesn't match the profile of the stolen car in the least bit). Terrance is cool about it...he pulls over...keeps his hands on the steering wheel. Racist cop peeks in...saw the wife on Terrances lap. Terrance asks what the problem is, and the cop came back with some smart aleck remark...asks Terrance where his insurance and stuff is. Terrance has it, and procedes to explain the situation...racist cop aint hearing it. Tells Terrance to step out of the car.

At this point, Terrance is visably pissed, kinda laughs it off a little bit, but does as he is told. The wife, also pissed, rolls her eyes...tells the cop that they had no justifyable cause to pull them over. The cops partner is now searching Terrance...has him all hemmed up on the police car. Humiliating the man basically. The wife asks the cops again, why did they pull them over? Terrance yells for the wife to shut up...that everything will be ok...that he'll handle it. The wife rolls her eyes...mumbles under her breath. The 2nd cop yells that Terrance doesn't have anything on him. Racist cop yanks Terrance's wife out of the car...kinda man handles her a bit, and slams her againt the car. Racist cop then procededs to sexually assault the wife...he sticks his hands up her dress and everything; in front of the other cop and Terrance. Racist cop threatens to throw them in jail on a few bullshit charges, and Terrance ends up apologizing, and begging the cop to let him and his wife be on their way. Later on, the wife is pissed at Terrance's "lack" of manhood...and concludes that Terrance should have done something more to "protect" the wife.

...now according to some, Terrance could've handled the situation perfectly if his wife would have kept her mouth shut like he suggested. In conclusion, because wifey ran her mouth, its her own fault, and she has no one to blame but herself. It is also suggested that the problem with black men/women social issues stem from the premise that black women need to "learn their place"...and that marriages will continue to result in divorce unless we do so.

...my take...a) the outcome would have possibly been different had the wife kept running her mouth...afterall, she was drunk, but in no way does this take away from her behavior. I beleive that if she was 100% sober...she still would've mouthed off to the cop....b)Since when does sexual assault become part of the job description of the police?...I'm pretty sure she was gonna sue their asses...and c)..really, people with the mindstate of the previous paragraph are obviously insecure (at least, that's how they're coming off to me)....they're also not taking into account all factors assocated with so-called "independent women".....they've intimidated by them on the notion that black women benefit the most from Affirmatiive Action issues, so we really have nothing to complain...

...uh...excuse me?

...watch the move "Dirty" with Cuba Gooding too...you'll get my drift

Labels: black folks, social issues, women

posted by ~Kesh @ 6/01/2006 09:27:00 AM