Neo Ned
http://www.neoned.com/
Neo Ned is a new independent film starring some dude named Jeremy Renner and Gabrielle Union (who I can’t stand). Aparently, Renner plays a n-word spewing, neo-nazi, racist white due and Union plays the Black girl who falls in love with him. All of this takes place in a mental institution.
I’m going to reserve judgement because I have not seen the movie. I am anxious to see it because I want to find out how Renner can call Union nigger and still end up sleeping with her. Sounds like an amazing feat. Maybe I’ll watch this and Monsters Ball back to back because Bill Bob Thorton and Jeremy Renner perform magic. I may also throw in Something New.
I have nothing against interracial relationships. People that know me can certainly attest to this. I am more concerned about how these relationships are portrayed in the media. I cannot think of a movie besides Guess Who’s Coming to dinner where a relationship between a Black man and a white woman was explored with great detail. Save the Last Dance and “O” were teen movies. The “Othello” remake starring Larry Fishburne is a centuries old story and ended very negatively. I don’t think this is a relationship that the media wants to explore.
Furthermore, there is a continuous rhetoric about the lack of available Blackmen, sisters turning to white men, Black men on the down low, so on and so forth. Media images have a large effect on people of all races and I am worried that images like this could possibly expand the apparent disconnection between Black men and Black women.
But maybe I’m funkin’ over nuthin’.
Langston Collin Wilkins
