shymexx:

The few oneowever, most of them still go back to naija women...

Even Caribbeans who breed a lot of mixed race kids still marry mostly Caribbean women...

Yoruba women are "feisty" and get married everyday so..not sure what that comment means. cant say I care where yall go really. peen is peen. We'll be alright.

Anyway would you want used cargo? Should Naija women be stuck with these used up cargo dudes? These dudes Naija and Carribs go and use oyibo women up, many having kids with them..then run back to their own women, and these stupid women accept these used up losers back. Hope you're not defending this BS

ThiefOfHearts:
Yoruba women are "feisty" and get married everyday so..not sure what that comment means. cant say I care where yall go really. peen is peen. We'll be alright.

Anyway would you want used cargo? Should Naija women be stuck with these used up cargo dudes? These dudes Naija and Carribs go and use oyibo women up, many having kids with them..then run back to their own women, and these stupid women accept these used up losers back. Hope you're not defending this BS

Perhaps, that's why most of these Yoruba women are single mums everywhere in London...

And there's nothing like "used cargo" when it comes to male Instruments - the more experience you get, the better...

I wouldnt know. The ones I know in London arent single moms and I dont know of any here in the US. Sorry to disappoint you.

and I meant used as in they've been married before and have bastards outside. Why would you ask Naija women to accept that nonsense.

What's so special about naija women, anyway?? Most naija mums out here are single mums - they all drove their husbands out of their marital homes...

You lot need to start accepting the fact that there are many "takers" out there...And naija men are winning right now, every girl out there wants a naija guy...

You're right, your mom probably isnt special

lol @ takers. The same could be said about Naija women. when they go "outside" the men are at least well to do..while yall dealing with Adele look-a-likes

Tell your brothers esp the ones in Ireland, if say na by force to get with Irish woman, let her look decent. abi? no be so?

anyway im bored with this. Moving On

Christoph nominated for an Oscar. Surprised Samuel L Jackson wasnt either but Im happy for him!

Lmao.... Did I hurt your feelings?? My mum is a different breed - gentle and meek - God bless that woman... Anyway, don't get too worked up, I like feisty women and I've got the "juice" for all types of feistiness...

And maybe, you need to tell your fellow naija women to stop being feisty for no reason...

ThiefOfHearts: Christoph nominated for an Oscar. Surprised Samuel L Jackson wasnt either but Im happy for him!

Be happy for Django for saving that black woman ar.se... Most black men would have saved themselves and left her to her faith...

Django(Jamie Foxx) definitely deserves an Oscar nomination for that..

Not telling anyone anything. The women in my circle are fine/doing well in relationships. Ekiti women and their "feistyness" especially

lol @ "hurt feelings". You must be a newbie.

There's nothing you've said that would hurt me, Ive heard worse from self haters like you on this board so no worries dude

Ive said all that needed to be said in that other post is all, too old for my former style of arguing. too much work. Again sorry to disappoint you but aint no hurt feelings here. Just bored with that convo and moving on. anyway unless you'll wanna discuss the movie, I'll be ignoring you. Hope that's ok, dont cry o!

Ciao

Logicboy03:
However, he has made many foolish errors by caliming that there was no black soldier in a WW2 movie which had 2 scenes with black soldiers.

Also, he also put the address of a suspect in the killing of a black kid, thereby causing panic to the family of the suspect for fear of vigilante justice.

I believe that it was reckless and irresponsible of him to post that address online, and the fact that it was the wrong address (a completely different family) made it even worse, but I still would not go so far as to call him an irrelevant douchebag. Clearly, his emotions got the better of him on that Zimmerman/Martin case, though. To me, he just seems a bit obnoxious, but the man is sufficiently talented that at any moment - if he were to get the right funding - he could probably make another classic film. The Oldboy remake that he is working on with Samuel L. Jackson probably won't be a classic, but it will be interesting to see what he does with it since he's far from an ordinary director.

On the WW2 movies, you have to consider the context in which Lee was making his complaint. He had an absolutely valid complaint that he was making.

This Time article puts it into perspective:

Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and planted their flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the Volcano Islands is the focus of another pitched battle. This time, acclaimed film directors Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee are engaging in verbal warfare over the verisimilitude of Eastwood's two films about the epic clash, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Lee has claimed that by soft-pedaling African-American contributions to the battle, Eastwood is misrepresenting history.

"Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," Lee said at the Cannes Film Festival. "In his version of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist." Eastwood's counter: "Has he ever studied history? [African-American soldiers] didn't raise the flag," he said. "If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, they'd say, "This guy's lost his mind.'" Eastwood also told Lee to "shut his face," prompting Lee to amplify the racism charge: "[Eastwood] is not my father and we're not on a plantation, either," he fumed. "I'm not making this up. I know history."

History, as it turns out, is on both their sides. Lee is correct that African-Americans played an instrumental role in World War II, in which more than 1 million black servicemen helped defeat the Axis Powers. Those efforts include significant contributions to the fight for Iwo Jima. An estimated 700 to 900 African-American soldiers participated in the epic island battle, many of whom were Marines trained in segregated boot camps at Montford Point, within Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Those soldiers were restricted from front-line combat duty, but they played integral noncombat roles. Under enemy fire, they piloted amphibious truck units during perilous shore landings, unloaded and shuttled ammunition to the front lines, helped bury the dead, and weathered Japanese onslaughts on their positions even after the island had been declared secure. According to Christopher Moore, the author of a book about African-Americans' myriad contributions during World War II, "thousands" more helped fashion the airstrips from which U.S. B-29 aircrafts could launch and return from air assaults on Tokyo, about 760 miles northwest. Hosting that air base, Moore says, was Iwo Jima's primary strategic importance.

Eastwood's portrayal of the specific battle is, if narrow, also essentially accurate. Flags Of Our Fathers zeroes in on the soldiers who hoisted the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, and this task, memorialized in a famous staged photograph, was accomplished by five white servicemen and a sixth, Ira Hayes, of Pima Indian descent. (His other entry in the Iwo Jima category, Letters from Iwo Jima, is told largely from the perspective of Japanese soldiers.)

Eastwood is also correct that black soldiers represented a small fraction of the total force deployed on the island. That argument doesn't placate Yvonne Latty, a New York University professor and author of a book about African-American veterans. Black soldiers "had the most dangerous job," she says. "If you were going to show the soldiers' landing, you'd need to show [African-Americans] on the beach." In Flags of Our Fathers, which shows the landing in significant detail, African-Americans appear only in fleeting cutaway shots and in a photograph during the film's closing credits.

Moore lauds Eastwood's rendering of the battle, but laments the limited role accorded to African-Americans. "Without black labor," he says, "we would've seen a much different ending to the war."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812972,00.html#ixzz2Hk2LVkxJ

(Note that those restricted from combat referred to in the article above, were those black troops at Iwo Jima, and definitely not all black American soldiers throughout the war, in case that isn't clear.)

Lee might actually be technically correct, as the few black people in the two films might just be extras, not real "actors," but regardless, the complaint is basically valid.

Part of this interview with Lee also provides some context for his complaint (by the way, the entire interview is an interesting read):

It does seem like you feud with other filmmakers a lot. You criticized Clint Eastwood for not having more black soldiers in his World War II films.

I was not saying it for myself, though. I had been in dialogue with black Marines who were there. Clint Eastwood was not the first to whitewash war, either. People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. There are exceptions with, like, Laurence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now, Forest Whitaker in Platoon. The first person who died for this country in the American Revolution was a black man. Crispus Attucks was the very first one. From the Civil War, you can probably put Glory in there.

Though, of course, that was told through the eyes of a white character.

Yeah, that’s a whole other thing, but we’ll let that go for now. But there has been a total omission of the contribution of African-Americans in the defense of this country for democracy. It’s crazy. George Lucas—George freaking Lucas—had been trying to make Red Tails for twenty years, and no studio would make it, so he goes off and says, “I am going to finance this one myself.” Even George ­Lucas can’t get the film made. What did they tell him? “We do not know how to market this.” I am not making it up. People would not even show up to the screening. That is where the frustration comes.

What frustrated me about that Clint Eastwood thing is, if you do not say something, is there a more prominent name that is going to? You sort of have to. But when you say it, the public is like, “Oh, there goes Spike Lee. There he goes again.”

You sound like my wife.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/spike-lee-on-reality-tv-minstrelsy-and-hollywood.html

Oh well - good for you... It seems all the Ekiti chics on this forum have that in common from tpia, shollypopz, abiL, queensmith to ileke_idi...

I already asked you about your opinion about the movie and I'm yet to get a reply...

Really and truly, there's nothing to talk about anymore...

I believe tpia is from Osun. Dont know the others as I was talking about family but obviously these women have made an impression since you managed to memorize them and their state. If you are nice, they might indulge you with a date

shymexx:
Most black men would have saved themselves and left her to her faith...

Is that something to be proud of? Im confused

and he didnt do enough to be nominated. I thought Leo MIGHT get a nomination, but I now believe he might have to die before Hollywood gives him that statue

@PhysicQED

I thought Spike Lee did the "Miracle at St. Anna" movie to balance out the Clint Eastwood movie??

ThiefOfHearts: I believe tpia is from Osun. Dont know the others as I was talking about family but obviously these women have made an impression since you managed to memorize them and their state. If you are nice, they might indulge you with a date

Is that something to be proud of? Im confused

and he didnt do enough to be nominated. I thought Leo MIGHT get a nomination, but I now believe he might have to die before Hollywood gives him that statue

Obviously, it's something to be proud of... It exemplifies how strong black love is and why black men need to start loving black women again...

I agree he didn't do that much in the movie, however, Denzel Washington didn't do zilch in "Flight" and he got a nod at the Oscars....

Lmao @ if I'm nice... They're all my e-wives, who doesn't want an Ijebu boy with Idris Elba swag

shymexx: @PhysicQED

I thought Spike Lee did the "Miracle at St. Anna" movie to balance out the Clint Eastwood movie??

Yeah, pretty much.

shymexx: Lmao @ if I'm nice... They're all my e-wives, who doesn't want an Ijebu boy with Idris Elba swag

If feistness is so bad, why are they your "wives"

Idris indeed

Denzel was great in Flight. Struggling with addiction is big in Hollywood and he did a grand job.

ThiefOfHearts:
If feistness is so bad, why are they your "wives"

Idris indeed

Denzel was great in Flight. Struggling with addiction is big in Hollywood and he did a grand job.

I already told you I've got the "juice"/cure for feistiness... I was just alluding to other naija men who can't stand their feistiness...

Yeah Idris Elba, that's my fellow Londoner from the other side of town...

I'm the biggest Denzel fan out there, but he didn't really do that much in Flight, to be honest... Personally, I think Jamie Foxx did more in Django Unchained - the only thing that killed his overall performance was the accent he used in the movie... He probably would have got a nod if he used the Southern ebonics accent of the 19th century IMO...

PhysicsQED:

Yeah, pretty much.

Word!

the only thing that killed his overall performance was the accent he used in the movie... He probably would have got a nod if he used the Southern ebonics accent of the 19th century IMO

what accent did he use?

anyway, i just watched the trailer, might catch up with the film later- leonardo di caprio is usually brought out when the movie is meant to have a big impact.


combined with kerry washington, i guess something is up.

who funded the film anyway?

Bought the movie today and I've watched it. Honestly it's one of the interesting movies of the year. Tarantino did a good job in revealing the evils and crime committed against Africans in the name of slavery. He revealed what I haven't read in the history books and I believe what was shown in that movie actually happened.
I also love the humour in the movie. The dialouges on point and educative. The graphical violence is very intriguing. His critics need to chill and support the movie.

I thank God I wasn't born in the era of slavery in America.

tpia@:
who funded the film anyway?

Warner Bros.

shymexx: Oh well - good for you... It seems all the Ekiti chics on this forum have that in common from tpia, shollypopz, abiL, queensmith to ileke_idi...

I already asked you about your opinion about the movie and I'm yet to get a reply...

Really and truly, there's nothing to talk about anymore...

I don't think its a coincidence that almost every single female poster i've had a problem with was from that area.

ThiefOfHearts:

since when is dating "love peddling"? anyway your comment make no sense to me but thanks anyway.

little girl you know exactly what i meant, dont play dumb. The more someone cares about something, the more bothered he is when it belongs to someone else.

And whoring is the word i choose to use, trust me there are worse ways to describe it.

You have a problem with me?

I thought you sorted yourself out

AbiL is not from Ekiti state.

Nah, that post was in the past tense. I'm not trying to 'fight' with anyone from that list.

This is like finding out I love chicken because I'm black.........

You mean my "fiestiness" has something to do with my origin??



Pleep!! Pleeeep!! Pleeeeeeep!! How many times did I call you?? Warn yourself!!

^ see what i mean.

Ignatio: Bought the movie today and I've watched it. Honestly it's one of the interesting movies of the year. Tarantino did a good job in revealing the evils and crime committed against Africans in the name of slavery. He revealed what I haven't read in the history books and I believe what was shown in that movie actually happened.
I also love the humour in the movie. The dialouges on point and educative. The graphical violence is very intriguing. His critics need to chill and support the movie.

I thank God I wasn't born in the era of slavery in America.

tarantino's critics don't have a prayer........
his movies always have the same theme: small person filled with vengeance versus the authority. you either love his movies or hate them. quentin said nobody has really spoken about the black holocaust in america and he wanted to give the black people a movie hero....God bless him!

the role of samuel l jackson in the movie is quite intriguing - such an odious fool! he's about the only black actor who can get away with playing such a nasty role. leonardo di caprio delivered as well. it's a very good movie but it's too long(some parts were choppy and could have been edited).

saw this interview - tarantino went in on channel 4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsJDy8VjZk