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Short Shots – “If I Was [A Nigger] Like You”This 11-minute short, titled If I Was Like You, by first time filmmaker Wesley Du, screened at the DCAPA (DC Asian Pacific American) Film Festival earlier this month, and generated a lot of discussion on the multi-culti Racialicious blog, and I thought I’d share it here to see if it inspires any useful conversation. In short, living in South Central Los Angeles, Billy finds it impossible to fit in. His father, Daniel, finds it impossible to live without Billy, and goes to extremes to take matters into his own hands. PART 1:
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Am I the only person who thought of the beginning of Die Hard with a Vengeance when they saw this? Anywho, yay I get to be first. Look at this guy Marcus I’m seeing him everywhere now (black guy with black skull cap). Just when I thought if he was black he would have been shot, somebody said it. Does he think if his son was african-american his chances of being killed would have been lower? Hatred is coming alive in new ways. I don’t know if I have said this on this blog yet but all that hard work they were doing to divide the people has worked but not entirely how they wanted it to go.
“cash rules everything around me- MOVE”- mos def can i ask one more question why do people who have the choice to move stay where life is hard for them? they hate the people around them yet they stay. work to make the changes you want to see or stop whining.
I would like to show this short at ANF and see what kind of reaction it will have with ANF patrons. I think it would promote interesting discussion.
This Movie Looks interesting. I would like to know more about mr. Daniel. Sometimes there’s a whole new dynamic of thought behind the ugly things people say and do. I would like 2 see this movie.
Thanks for posting.
@MLM-Why does he hate the people around him? Did we see the same film . . . a group of black teens harassed and humiliated his son. Out of anger the kid went back to retaliate and was killed. Why does he stay? Why can’t they all just live peacefully. And who’s yard were the people in? The guy with the bats yard . . . so shouldn’t the policeman have cleared the crowd out of his yard? Isn’t that why he had the bat?
ok i didn’t ask why does he hate the people around him didn’t ask why anyone hates the people around them. in a better world people could live peacefully. the guy had the bat b/c he was provoking the crowd. well hehe since i read why the filmmaker chose to have a white cop, no he wasn’t there to clear the yard. he came in saw the sign and saw the bat. the brothers were unarmed. he saw the father as the instigator.
@flying eagle i believe this is the whole movie.
I enjoyed this, but I think the cop wasn’t thought out well enough. I think that main character was a man who had a bad past living in a bad neighborhood, striking out in anger when his son is killed.
I think it’s an effective commentary on racial division.
It’s not just the father who shows his racism. The kids who end up killing the son are also racist towards him.
Whether they would kill him because of his ethnicity or not is up in the air, but what I can say he got killed for is being a good target. IN the kid’s case, he’s probably the minority in the neighborhood with no one to support him.
I thought this was great.
I showed it to a group of young men and had a discussion on their thoughts.
At first they were mad at the word “Nigger”.
When I asked why, “Because he is calling us niggers.”, was the reply.
When I pointed out that it was a movie and not directed towards them – “But all Black people are niggers”, was the reply.
When I pushed further and asked whether this was true (”All Black people are niggers”), “Well, no”, was the reply.
“Are you a nigger?”, I asked.
“Yes”, said most.
“Really?”, I persisted.
“Well, no”, they said.
“The problem is, you think that you ARE niggers”, I said.
I explained that if someone walked into the room and yelled “Hey wetback”, none of them would be offended.
They may turn around to see who is being referenced – but they know that it wasn’t directed towards them.
But that they associate “Nigger” with themselves.
Later we discussed who was right in their actions and how things could have been handled better (without the distraction of race).
I’d like to see this short in public.
a rip-off of ZOOMAN AND THE SIGH by Charles Fuller
I’ll have to look that one up Mark. Never seen the play. Thanks.
ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN