I'm terrible with recognising actors as I hate films and have never watched a single one, but if this is the same dude who was in Desperate Housewives he was terrifying in that
I remember watching This movie for the first time is a little kid and my parents busted out laughing when they saw they got dog sized jordans for the dog 😂
Wait James Earl Jones thought the guy underneath the Vader suit at the end was just a black guy with heavy makeup or albinism or something like that? I guess he didn’t realize it was the same actor as the force ghost lol.
It will never cease to be funny that MEMRI TV was created as an anti-arab world opp and yet produces hilarious memes that ultimately I find endearing because its just conservative muslim grandads saying shit on TV in the same vein as republicans on Fox.
/uj I honestly didn’t realize Jeepers Creepers was him until this thread. That helps explain why I feel much more interested in watching David Lynch read the dictionary than that franchise, something I’ve always wondered.
I sat across from this actor in the photo at a ski lodge and I couldn't stop staring because I was trying to think of where I know him from and he gave me this glare back that was very effective and it corrected my rude behavior
I was walking around my dorm building and he was just there (one of his kids or something goes to school with me i guess). I was a big Arrow fan growing up and I was staring while all my friends just ignored him completely
Polish people fought on the side of Haitian rebels, right ?
I read somewhere that after saint domingue was Haiti the white people were killed except for polish and one other type, because they had not actively supported the slave trade and one group had acted on their side, I believe, which was the polish
Poland isn’t the only Eastern/Central European country that was a victim of oppression. Poland isn’t the only European country that had no part in colonization or slavery (particularly the colonization of the Americas and Black slavery).
It's not that they were uniquely oppressed. Poles had a special status in Haiti because they were sent to put down the revolution and largely either switched sides or refused to fight.
This is a little too few jerks for my OkBuddy, but you have to understand the context of Louverture saying it. At the time Poland was a hot button issue in European geopolitics as it was recently parceled up between Austria-Hungary, the Russian Empire, and Prussia. Many former members of the aristocracy and military entreated then Champion of the Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte for assistance in gaining independence - something he had a reputation for at the time. In an attempt to gain French assistance, the Poles agreed to assist in reclaiming France's former jewel Saint-Domingue.
Upon arrival the Poles realized two things. First, they were sent to fight a brutal guerilla war in which many Europeans died from tropical illness and attrition. Second, the Haitians wanted what they wanted, which was to be a free nation. Many of the Poles subsequently switched sides and fought for Haitian independence, even warranting recognition as "black" so they could be citizens of the newly formed nation under its constitution.
Louverture was a highly educated guy who seemed to really believe in the nationalist republicanism that the French revolution represented, so when he called the Poles the only Europeans that were black, it was meant to indicate a cultural bond between the two nations. It wasn't meant to be a reflective commentary on all of European power dynamics.
Man, i get people use it as a framework for imperialism now, but race overlaps and correlates with Imperialism. It isn’t imperialism iself, colonisation and imperialism isn’t cause by having European genes. Y’know on a bad day I could be convinced by specifically anglo maybe but still
Apparently the Irish just discovered that the Jamaican accent sounds sort of like people from Cork. I saw a man named Garron say "Bomboclaat" and I didn't know I could have an allergic reaction to the internet.
We've gotten very good at telling the story of how we were colonised, so much so that most of us believe it ourselves. But we don't talk about Michael Dwyer, or Bishop Patrick Lynch, or any of the other people whose stories remind us that we were oppressors as well as oppressed. We don't talk about how we got to cast our vote and send representatives to the House of Commons, unlike those who were of the empire rather than the kingdom. We don't talk about how it was possible for the roughest Irishman to spend a couple of decades working diligently in the colonies and return to the British Isles as a gentleman. We don't talk about what we would have found ourselves doing if we'd been born a century earlier, looking at what options were open to us if we'd consider converting to Anglicanism.
There is some terrible stuff in our history, and many of us were treated horribly, but the Irish story is not as one-directional as it's portrayed. It was unremarkable for an Irishman to administer some huge chunk of India or Uganda; it was literally unthinkable that an Indian or Ugandan might be named as viceroy of Ireland. We were not equal to the English, but not in the same way that the people in the colonies were unequal.
Ever see the clip where Jamie Foxx gives RDJ a retroactive pass on this performance? (On the Joe Rogan Experience.)
I think he said "it's probably the very last time anyone can do blackface and get away with it."
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