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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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In today's episode, we review Green Book, this year's Oscar winner for Best Picture. We talk about the controversy surrounding the movie, the implications of it's win, and why white protagonists are problematic in films about race. FOLLOW BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD]: https://twitter.com/blackmenpodcast https://www.instagram.com/blackmenpodcast BUY BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/black-men-can-t-jump-in-hollywood SUPPORT BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BMCJ BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Forever. So before we start this one of episode I want to give everyone a brief history on the lives that

0:14.7

Hollywood and American public gives to people of color

0:18.1

So we think about inaccuracies when it comes to culture we live in this thing where it's like oh

0:23.2

let's take license for how we give history what do they call it Bray you're a very smart man

0:28.0

was it a?

0:29.1

a a create oh revisionist history I don't know. Let's say, hey, we have a movie and we talk about, you know, maybe, maybe this wonderful black woman who's smart enough to save astronauts, right? Wouldn't it be great if a white

0:46.3

dude came and knocked down the bathroom so she can go to the bathroom like

0:49.9

everybody else? Well yeah because but but you know that didn't happen people but, you know, but people wouldn't believe, they wouldn't believe,

0:56.2

she wouldn't believe, because she didn't have enough struggle.

0:58.2

Yeah, yeah.

0:59.2

And you know what else?

1:00.2

You know what, I bet you, I bet you it is true that this black woman who technically

1:04.7

helped save a white astronaut to get him back down to earth.

1:08.6

Of course they would have her in the room with all the rest of the astronauts who she

1:11.9

proved she's smarter than and then have to watch it in the back with the rest of the astronauts who she proved she's smarter than and

1:13.2

then have to watch it in the back with the rest of the black women.

1:15.2

Yeah. There was a white dude like Kevin O'Connor was like come in here black woman

1:18.8

watch the beautiful work you did because that's what happened.

1:21.6

They didn't send her in the back. No n n' n'g n'g n'g n' n They didn't send her in the back.

1:22.8

No n nigg nigg a cint her in the back. Okay? All right. Why are we talking about? I don't even remember that part. They left the

1:29.5

locked her out but then they brought her in. At the end of the movie when like

1:33.4

the astronauts are making their way back. All of a sudden she's walking to the door and

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