Hollywood's favorite Magical Negro
Morgan Freeman has become fabulously rich playing the magical negro in numerous movies, from Million Dollar Baby to Bruce Almighty to Evan Almighty to his latest movie, Dolphin Tale.
In Freeman’s latest role, which was “inspired” by a true story, he plays Dr. Cameron McCarthey, who is responsible for designing a prosthetic tail for a dolphin.
The problem with this story is that the real life doctors who invented the prosthetic tail for Winter is that they weren’t black. They were a couple of cracker-ass-cracker white boys. But Hollywood wants to make black people happy by pretending that they have made significant contributions to scientific achievement in this country by altering reality to suit their politically correct vision of how they wish the world was:
Now you might be asking yourself: why does it matter that Hollywood has decided to put a Blackface on the actually inventors of the artificial dolphin tale, designed by two white guys, that save Winter’s life? It’s just a movie, which happens to be produced by the same people who brought us 2009′s surprise hit The Blind Side.
It’s important because a lot of people are going to see this film, and because most people believe what they see on television and in films, they’ll come away thinking that a Black guy actually invented this prosthetic tail that helped saved Winter’s life. I wrote a whole book on what I call “Black Fictional Images”, entitled Hollywood in Blackface. Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Will Smith are the go-to Black actors for creating positive images of Black people via portraying fictional Black scientists, inventors, doctors, and people who routinely save the world.
If you haven’t picked a copy of it up yet, I highly recommend it.
That the casting director and script writer for Dolphin Tale would find it necessary to amalgamate the two white scientists who actually invented the artificial tail for Winter into a “Black Fictional Image” that could only be played by Freeman is one of the more egregious examples of Hollywood’s policy of Blackfacing true events for the purposes of inculcation.
There was no “Dr. McCarthy”; this is a Black Fictional Image created with the expressed desire of convincing moviegoers that a Black person was involved in the tale of saving Winter the Dolphin. In this case, the artificial tail was invented and developed by a Black guy. People believe what they are told, what they see.
I’m just waiting for the made-in-Hollywood moving featuring Morgan Freeman as the veteran SEAL team commander who masterminds and leads the SEAL mission that killed OBL. Despite the fact, you know, that there are almost no blacks in the elite ranks of the US Navy SEALS. Or any of the other elite special units in the United States Military. Unlike fire departments around the nation, the US military’s elite forces have not lowered their standards in the name of diversity.
But now we have this same magical negro who lives in a completely fictional world, is accusing Tea Party activists of being…you guessed it…raaaaacccciisttts!
All for having the temerity to oppose the nation destroying policies of Mr. Obama.
Morgan Freeman is a race-hustling idiot. I think that goes without saying. And his racist rant against anybody who opposes Obama really doesn’t even warrant the pixels I’ve already devoted to Hollywood’s favorite Magic Negro. But leading Presidential Candidate Herman Cain does a pretty damned good job of it:
The Republican presidential candidate called the Oscar-winning actor’s eyebrow-raising remarks “short-sighted” on Friday. “Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Partiers about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party,” Cain told Fox News.
Freeman, who endorsed Obama in 2007, created a firestorm when he told CNN’s Piers Morgan earlier this week that conservative opposition to the President has enflamed racism in America. He added the Tea Partiers have the mentality of “Screw the country, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here…It is a racist thing.”
Despite the criticism, Cain said he wasn’t offended by Freeman’s comments. “Name calling is something that is going to continue in this because they don’t know how to stop this movement and this movement is making a big difference in politics,” said Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza.
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9, 9, 9! I do like Cain. Intelligent, strong, succeeding through the face of adversity (one amazing cancer survival story…and due to oh yes…no Obummercare being around at that time)….
And one hell of a sense of humor
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Good man…
I like and respect Herman Cain and was an early supporter of his, until the unforgivable happened.
He apologized to muslims for saying he would never have a muslim in his administration. I mean, WTF? If you weren’t prepared to stand by your original position then you should have never said such a thing in the first place.
I didn’t think his saying it in the first place was a good idea, but once he did he needed to stand by it, not walk it back and apologize later.
It made him look squishy and unprincipled to me.
I’m glad he spoke out against this Hollywood trash, though.
Oh my…
Yes..squishy and unprincipled is a good description for this act…
As far as black Navy SEALS go, one mustn’t forget about Jake Zweig, current contestant on the History Channel’s “Top Shot.” Zweig reminds viewers, repeatedly, of “When I was a SEAL,” although he previously characterized his mere three years there as being like a lone black in a racist biker gang. Other reports call his time there “tumultuous” (http://staugustine.com/stories/040202/nat_614703.shtml). Zweig shockingly cited “RACISM” for the paucity of blacks in special forces. Zweig would, I’m sure, be more than happy to take the lead role in any movie about America’s elite soldiers; perhaps he and Morgan Freeman ought to get together.
LOL. I hadn’t heard of your site before. I just assumed it was a lefty site using that title to remind people that opinions about healthcare and tax rates aren’t the only characterizations we’ve heard about Obama. Way to make your point in the least helpful way possible. Maybe you can dig up that bone-thru-nose poster for your next rebuttal of claims of racism.
I didn’t invent the “magical negro.” Hollywood did. And Morgan Freeman (along with Will Smith) is the poster boy for Magical Negros everywhere. Do you deny that?
Actually, it was David Ehrenstein, who wrote a piece called Barack the Magic Negro. Dave is black, by the way…
*snort* magical negro..I love it!
Mr. Cain has my vote. I thnk he woulld be wonderful as president.
Freeman doesn’t make me want to see him acting in much of anything anymore.
As for true black achievement, there’s plenty out there without people making shit up or misrepresenting inventors.
There’s the true story movie “Something The Lord Made” – Vivien Thomas, a co-inventor in 1941 of groundbreaking bypass surgery on infants.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386792/
And years ago (1996), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said he was very disappointed at the lack of information about black inventors and/or achievement, so he did his own research and co-authored this very interesting book : “Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy in African American Achievement”.
I have the book and it’s a shame so much is left out of American history books.
No wonder so many blacks feel disconnected to so much of America’s history.
“Something the Lord Made” is a fantastic movie.
Now, imagine if Hollywood would have taken the character of Vivien Thomas and had a white man play that role. Imagine the howls of outrage coming from the Left, the NAACP, and race hustlers everywhere.
I can’t speak to “Something The Lord Made,” as I’ve not seen it. Regarding purported black inventors and Abdul-Jabbar’s book, I would cross-check it with various websites, including the following called black invention myths: http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
When actors expose their political beliefs it pretty much destroys their image for me. I know they can easily portray on film what is not true, I trust they can do the same in real life.
Freeman has been on my list of actors whose movies I refuse to see or quite some time. If he wants to use his fame to denigrate me and my beliefs, there is simply no way I’m going to add to his fame and wealth to enable him to continue to do so.
What on earth do you mean “pretending” that blacks have made significant contributions to scientific achievement?
Blacks HAVE made significant contributions to scientific achievement. Do you really want me to name some?
I repeat: black claims of scientific achievement have largely been debunked. See: http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
There are certainly blacks in U.S. special forces, to my own certain knowledge.
But if it makes you feel any better, in the Oliver Stone movie ‘World Trade Center’, real life hero Jason Thomas, a former Marine who took it on himself to try and find survivors in the rubble, is played by white actor, even though Thomas is black.
I didn’t say there were no blacks in the Special Forces, Jim. However:
The armed services are often held out as standard-bearers for integration. Blacks — 13 percent of the U.S. population — make up 20 percent of the military. But they are less than 4 percent of special forces.
Once again, I mention Jake Zweig, an arrogant, obnoxious, chip-on-the-shoulder s.o.b. who caused no end of trouble during his three short years as a SEAL with his constant charges of racism. While there are black marines, there are minimal blacks in any of the special forces. They generally do not possess the intelligence, let alone the swimming ability, that is required. You can scream “raciiist” all you like, but scientific proof of genetic differences is reality.
Really were you born in the 1800s
Sheila, just who the fuck are you to judge Zweig for his “three short years” in the Navy SEALs? Were you in the SEALs? Do you even know somehow who is in the military?
I am a combat veteran with two Afghanistan deployments under my belt with the U.S. Marines, and even I would not pontificate on something I don’t know jack shit about. The elite units like the SEALs get ultimate respect, and if Zweig made it through BUD/S, then he obviously has what it takes.
Don’t go around repeating second hand hear-say about something you don’t know, because you haven’t earned that right. Hell, I wouldn’t go shit talking a former SEAL either, not on the internet or in person.
Thank you!
Oh, and as far your racism goes, do you seriously believe blacks can’t swim that well because of genes lol? So I guess by your reasoning, blacks can run faster and are stronger than everyone else because of genes too, right?
I really hope you don’t say these things in public.
Unfortunately, she does…
http://unamusementpark.com/2011/05/black-people-are-more-criminal-than-white-people-a-flyer/
http://unamusementpark.com/2011/05/there-are-innate-race-differences-in-intelligence-a-flyer/
http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2011/09/genetic-differences-in-prostate-cells.html
http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2011/09/patients-with-high-degree-of-african.html
Nazar’s theorem: genetic reality = racism.
Racism = anti-White
“I wouldn’t go shit-talking a former SEAL either, not on the internet or in person.” What a strange coincidence that your comment/threat resembles the reaction of said Jake Zweig on the t.v. show when others voted against him: “They’d better watch their backs. I’m going to get them.” I paraphrase, but the gist is the same. I’d pull an Anne Barnhardt, but unlike her I’m married with children, so I’m not going to put my personal particulars out there for kooks like you.
Girl, don’t give yourself too much credit, my life doesn’t revolve around finding the latest “data” for racist internet battles.
Sheila is a lying creep:
Sheila said…
I just got threatened at another website (Urban Grounds) by someone with the handle “Nazar” because I discussed former SEAL Jake Zweig as another example of why there aren’t more blacks in special forces. Said Nazar “I wouldn’t talk shit about former SEAL on the internet or in person” if I were you, with the implied threat that free speech and thought on the web must be curtailed by threats of violence, as well.
PC thought/speech controls: It’s not a good way to live. Diversity: It’s not a good way to live.
September 27, 2011 10:53 AM
Take your meds, Sheila!
That is just whack.
The implication was that HE wouldn’t talk that shit, not that she shouldn’t.
Embellishment Maximus.
I love my Marine husband, confident and strong…we all agree, Seals are just plain hardcore badasses and are much respected.
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Confidence can be misinterpreted as arrogance from those that are not accustomed to people that complete such difficult training…when merely they’re awesomeness just can’t be denied
God Bless the military! All that serve
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I can’t hear all the enlightening conversation on this board above the dueling banjos
Are you completely stupid? The purpose of the Magical Negro trope isn’t to please Black audiences or satisfy some diversity requirement; it’s to soothe White America’s guilty conscience. Omg, soooo ignorant. Try reading.
P.S. If what most Teabaggers believe sounds like this post, then yeah, they are racist.
*points* Hey look Robbie. another troll…late to the game…as usual.