I saw the Princess and the Frog. It was amazing. I thought that the movie was well written, the music was well composed and New Orleans was probably even well portrayed, although I can't say because I've never been there. But I'll be damned if one more person says that that movie was racist. The movie is about DIGGING DEEPER and looking toward to future, knowing that you're ALMOST THERE. And I honestly started to feel that way about our society when I watched that movie. Not even joking, I compare a bunch of my own reality to cartoons because they make a crap load more sense. So anyway, watching that movie I thought that it would be motivating for children to watch and to listen to and sing along with those songs, but I was clearly wrong. We don't know how to collectively DIG DEEPER into what the movie was really about because we're so damn caught up on what the characters looked like as opposed to what they were saying. FIRST of all, ALOT of the songs were sung by fucking ANIMALS...ANIMALS. They aren't even apart of our race (humanity) that we insist on breaking up into much smaller "races", only created as a basis of unfair societal treatment. The freaking frogs were GREEN. The alligator was GREEN. The lightning bug, GREEN and YELLOW. And Goddamn if it you assumed from watching that movie that African Voodoo is "scary" and/or "frightening," then it's because you're not EXPOSED to it enough which is totally not our own faults. If anyone is at fault, it's society and/or media for not teaching us about African traditions enough for us to not be frightened by it. Scar and Gaston aren't criticized for being too "scary" Goddamn it. So what the firefly doesn't have any teeth. EVERY RACE OF PEOPLE LOSE TEETH GODDAMN IT.
I hate talking about this guy because everyone else does it but here goes. When Barack Obama ran for President, he faced some of the toughest criticism around; he was not only harshly criticized about being the first Black president, but he was criticized because of his ideas. I'm not such a political guru, but I can tell when someone is doing something productive, and from the small glances of the news that I do catch, I do believe that maybe..just maybe he is helping this country out more than we know right now. And furthermore, his receiving the Nobel Prize was a bit sudden and seemingly unnecessary to some, but think about it-when you combine every bit of offensive criticism that Obama faced with every bit of hatred that he endured, based SOLEY on his race, the composure that he maintained can be compared to the composure maintained by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1956 when his house was bombed. People have to realize that WE LIVE IN A DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD- Obama is not going to face the same trials and tribulations faced y Dr. King because it's a new day and I'd like to believe that the country is a bit more secure with people in positions like his and like Dr. King's. What's most important though is not what they faced, but how they handled it...and that's why they won the prizes that they won. People criticizing them and being hateful toward his receiving of the award only a. causes so much irony, seeing as it's a PEACE award and b. allows for more of a reason FOR him winning it- he's maintaining his composure whether you like it or not. And on top of it all when he's finished, that man is going to sit back, relax, and say he did something in this country, I bet you that much.
So, I just vented about the Princess and the Frog and somehow jumped to Barack Obama. I'm strange and I love it. judge me if you want, but I'll maintain my composure and when I win the peace prize, I'll keep on maintaining it.
Rawr.
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