QUOTE OF THE DAY

Life is like a coin; you can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once...

So I flipped thgat coin last weekend and decided on my the next project (did partial opening credits and sequence yesterday). The original title was "The Round Table" but after about a dozen interviews, and seeing how provocative the subject matter is, new title "What Black Men Think". It was born out of the frustrations of dating the modern day black woman. I know it sounds a little biased maybe even racially charged, however, in the late 90's Wesley Snipes commented:

"He (blackmen) doesn't want to come home to someone who's going to be mean and aggravating and unkind and who is going to be `please me, please me.' He doesn't want to come home to that. He doesn't want to come home to have a fight with someone who is supposed to be his helpmate. So it's very natural that he's going to turn to some place that's more compassionate....

Well the established media let him have it! Implying that there are different issues in dating black women (not all - that would be stereotypical) was racially biased, sexist, mysogonistic, neaderthal and a bunch of other adjectives to attack him personally, mute his point, and secretly hope for the demise of his career. Classic Black Response "Uncle Tom" was thrown at him, and is always use when someone doesn't conform to the socialistic "group think" that is pervasive in my community. (see presedential election results 2004, 89% voted for Kerry)

Anyway to get off my stomp, wesley was muted and had much to loose I guess, I believe oprah has shunned him to this day. To the point over the past 3-5 years there has been a movement, an inertia, an "underground railroad" amongst black men discussing and adressing the challenges of the 21st century black woman, and quite frankly, I think alot are feed up, and some I've interviewed are pissed. My preface is that in the late 60's 2 divergent movements impacted todays Black woman, civil rights and women's liberation movement, which empowered this generation but also entrusted them with a responsibility I don't think they've quite accepted ,acknowledged or embraced. Disturbing fact as I sit here typing this....6.9 out of 10 native born black children are being born out of wedlock today. Now the typical left winger media biased polarized talking point goes something like "that's beacause there are no good black men around, most black men are on drugs, in jail, or on the down-low", well I'm sorry and maybe I'm living in a bubble, but I can get a room of 12 men to sit down and refute that hyperbole, but also address the other side which has been white-washed (no pun intended), where is the owness for the women having these children? Anyway It'll be a documentary style round table discussion backfilled with stories,interaction and relationship dynamics of dating, married, seperated and divorced black men with women of multiple races. I'l keep you posted..!

http://www.mediamax.com/jynxonline/Hosted/The%20Round%20Table.wmv

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