We've just finished cutting the trailer for STAND, my new film exploring the Black male experience through history, politics, music and culture. STAND features Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Dick Gregory, Bebe Winans, the late Isaac Hayes and some of my other dear friends as we travel to the birthplace of the blues to talk about and reflect on Black men who "stood" for something in the past and what it means as Black men continue to "stand" for something now.
Check out the trailer:
For more information on the film, go to www.standthemovie.com
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I, too wonder: why black men only? Are you going to follow this up with a similar series about black women, Tavis? I hear a lot of talk on message boards like this one that black men need to "retake their place at the head of the family" or some such nonsense. Re-enforci
But question: Is it that you guys just can't stand anything we do where you're not at the center? Because we don't think like that.
Contrary to some comments, Bill Cosby and Barack Obama are not the first AAs’ to foster responsibi
This weekend pass a 13-year old boy was shot in the head and remains in critical condition following eruption of a gunfight. http://www
We all a accustomed to rehashing the blight of AA’s in lower and now middle class AA urban area. But the question stands, how do you correct this stigma? When will certain behavior habits, not be tolerated any further?
Dr. Joy DeGruy identifies this stigma as Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. I came across Dr. DeGruy (pre-inter
PS did you catch Dick Gregory in the trailer? My Hero http://www
But the question you ask IS the question: When will certain behavior not be tolerated.
Personally I've had about 30yrs too much of clinical diagnosis and Freudian syndromes from social sciences about 'Black life'. The slaves came out of slavery with their humanity intact (pre-Freud mind you) so the inherently flawed concept/ap
Fredrick Douglass & Jack Johnson, my heroes: Johnson- A guy who not accepting that there was anything wrong with being Black celebrated his Blackness, embrace his freedom and lived AS IF and not as a reactionar
what about the diseffecte
what about the spirit
what about the police
these are "normal" things?
there is no such thing as a quantifiab
bea ten, rap ed ,estranged
it is the type casting the assumption
everyone has someone to answer to, yourself included
They need to change the "Down-Low" factor and be honest and open about their sexuality.
AND, they need to stop saying they are too big for condoms.
MY CONCERN IS FOR THEIR HEALTH. Black men and the black community have continued to increase their numbers of HIV infection. Washington D.C. statistics among the Black Community are equal to or higher than those in any African country.
The lack of condom use, the hiding of their gay or bisexual members, and the lying all need to stop because IT IS KILLING PEOPLE; Yours and MINE.
The "Down-Low" factor also instill that there is something wrong with Gay people. This attitude always helps to enable GAY HATE CRIMES that now happen every 6 hours in the U.S..
Black Men need to understand that Gays have been there with their fight for Civil Rights and equality every step of the way. Bayard Rustin was an openly gay man, one of MLK's main advisers, organized the most important marches, and developed the non-violen
Gays are liberals and are there in the voting booth, in congress, and in your families.
Attitudes toward gays enable bullies but also have increased gay teen suicide which is 6 times higher.
What about the little Black Man that killed himself because he was called a F/GAY, Are you willing to save kids like him?
Which I don't get because in many many churches around the country EVERYONE knows that...say
So if those Gays aren't willing to protest, stand for themselves
By the way the 'Down-low' phenom was OVERBLOWN but there wasn't as much publicity in the recants...
It is prevalent to have men not use condoms and the woman to let them.
HIV is prevalent.
Gay hate is prevalent, not just because of religion, it is a cultural thing now.
Yes, many gays do not stand up, and worse are those like conservati
We are the only minority who is part of and hated by all other groups, but we can also hide and stay in closet, and many are so used to doing that, see that they will received harassment
We shouldn't need to be afraid, but listen to this woman, listen to the hate. Being afraid is understand
Not all in the black community are brainwashe
We love our gay siblings, cousins, uncles and aunts. We love our gay children. Many have a gay parent too. I always speak out against black-on-b
When you see or hear "that mess," call it out. Don't let it pass. Be an example those ignorant ways are as passe as "colored only" signs.
HOWEVER, society must make note of that 70 percent of African-Am
That's right, 70 percent.
What this means is that black women have had to "move on" regarding "family" and "relations
This fact the black man has lost this male role is affecting African-Am
Is this about 'the children' or is it really about the women? Me thinks it's cloaking your issue under the umbrella of the children. If you're waiting for 'society' to put everything on hold, stop and address your marriage issues, you're mistaken. The unfortunat
Also, how does 70% single/unm
our president, whom i respect and voted for, has spoken out about personal responsibi
There is no shame in the black community about teenagers having kids.Even some well off black women and men having kids with no intention of getting married.Th
Until the black church leaders in the community and parents see Obama and his family as a role model to strive (education
Look at both of these 'leading' groups, they stress the sort of values and mindsets that not only put our capitalist society to work for them, but enable mobility by removing friction points along the way. Asians clearly hold the major advantage here over whites - who's only real advantage is an establishe
Ultimately
There are incredible strides made in this past decade, communicat
Then you also have to realize that when we were slaves the masters would encourage divisivene
The last point about not being enough is wrong because WE DO NOT KNOW WHO WE ARE OR ABOUT OUR HISTORY! White people and asians can pinpoint where they are from to a village or town in a country. We can only say we came from a continent not a country but a contenent. Think about that for a second, that would be the equilovent of saying to a British person you are German cause you are both from Europe.
I'd love to see some depth. If I see another blaxploita
I don't mind men making a movie about themselves
I will go see a womanist movie too.
If they do an across the board look at both men and women, I will go see that as well.
I was happy to see the Jamie Fox movie this past weekend too.
you are going to mind me or I will put you out
I can get more for myself on my own
he wont listen with all that attitude
should have listened to mom, now I got nothing to show
good people, bad habits, worse circumstan
I got everything I want and need
so do my friends
I don't go without
my mom and dad mean the world to me
if they were upset with me I couldn't face myself
now I see what my dad was talking about
Assumption