Not exact matches
In November, Musk told CNBC that Trump «was not the right
guy» for the
White House, adding that «he doesn't seem to have the
sort of character that reflects well on the United States.»
I have no doubt that any «
white» man who tried was immediately and angrily vilified by those he was trying to help as not being «quite the right
sort of guy».
It's not surprising that when you invent an invisible magic
WHITE GUY WITH A BEARD who lives in the sky and runs the world, you will run into all
sorts of evidential & logical difficulties, just as you will by claiming that magic demons cause disease.
Growing up everyone went to a church or was involved with God in some way, you
sort of stuck with your own religious group, nobody I knew was gay or queer in any form (minus one
guy that was brave enough to be himself and was constantly bullied for it), the only people
of color I knew personally could be counted on my two hands, and about a third
of them were adopted by
white people in my church.
It is the nature
of the beast that any filmmaking team doing this
sort of movie (particularly in modern times unless you are
Guy Maddin) has to be fully committed to such a thing to make it work, green screens and CGI would likely undermine things, but when done right, few genres have such built in potential for
white knuckle tension.
With
guys like Linklater and
White at the helm, that
sort of anonymity is a tremendous disappointment, and that disappointment is really something like a compliment.
In its mediocre way, it reminds
of last year's homosexuality sitcom All Over the
Guy, proving that true equality, sadly, lies in the democratization
of all niche films into the same
sort of pre-digested pabulum
white males have been making for decades.
Part rejected network pilot, part Michael Crichton-esque what - if, the clumsy, cheap - looking
sort -
of thriller The Crash presents a very near future in which the U.S. government secretly enlists a
white - collar crook from Chicago named
Guy Clifton (Frank Grillo) to put together a team
of hackers and analysts who can stop an imminent computer attack on the stock market.
It's a companion piece
of sorts to the also -
white -
guy - directed Hustle & Flow, a means through which the majority culture tries to reconfigure the minority culture into comfortable terms (minstrel / criminal) that are so entrenched they've been assimilated by the offended.
There's some
sort of storyline going on in Sniper Elite involving a typical bad
guy by the name
of Vahlen and the most generic, gruff
white male protagonist imaginable, but it's not what you would call a gripping narrative.
My only point in making my comment is that defendants in many areas
of the country should not be automatically thrilled when judges get more discretion in these modern days where all
sorts of criminals are demonized (from
white collar
guys to Scooter Libby to the worst, sex offenders) and «imprison, imprison, imprison» becomes the public cry.
I popped a huge entertainment center in there because I know you
guys are always looking for additional storage, and I chose to use a
white one because I figured since it was so big, it would
sort of visually «go away» if it was that color.