Ifè Oshun: Assorted Rants

WTF is wrong with Hollywood? Take a multi-platinum mega-duo (Outkast), at the peak of their career and make a gorgeously shot film starring them and featuring their genre-defying, mainstream embraced music. Don’t ya think it would be a hit?

Well it isn’t, and that’s due to some geniuses deciding Idlewild would only open on a measley 973 screens (the No. 1 movie Invincible, opened on 2, 917 screens). Ironically, the no-brainer became apparent when Idlewild came out way ahead with the largest per-screen average ($5,905) of any of the top movies. So, the fact that it squeezed into the Top 10 at all says a lot.

And… I still stand by my original assertion that comparing Katrina evacuees to African slaves is silly. And as if to prove my point, NFADK led an unwitting lil ole me to actual pictures of enslaved men, women and children taken sometime around 1868. As you look at the faces, and bones sticking through slender frames, you realize that there are so many reasons for emaciation. Not being fed is one, but the anguish of being separated from everything you know and everyone you ever loved could drive many to self starvation. Also, the realization that many of these people could not even share their grief amongst themselves due to different dialects and languages… do you think that the psychological damage suffered by these people could have been assuaged by a cot, the Astrodome and a little sympathy?

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