Thursday, May 10, 2007
OFFENSIVE
HBO is making a movie version of Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," which will air this Memorial Day weekend.
Turns out the fucking thing is a love story. They needed a sympathetic white character to make the mass slaughter of Indians more palatable to their audience.
I don't know if I need to say more, but the idea TOTALLY FUCKING OFFENDS ME! This was a narrative about the genocide of indigenous folks by the colonialist invaders of this nation. Now reduced to a simple love story with a weeeeeeee tinnnnnyyyyy bit of genocide in the background to...make it more palatable for the white folks.
Turns out the fucking thing is a love story. They needed a sympathetic white character to make the mass slaughter of Indians more palatable to their audience.
I don't know if I need to say more, but the idea TOTALLY FUCKING OFFENDS ME! This was a narrative about the genocide of indigenous folks by the colonialist invaders of this nation. Now reduced to a simple love story with a weeeeeeee tinnnnnyyyyy bit of genocide in the background to...make it more palatable for the white folks.
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