susan mcmartin
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10 Reasons Why Mr. Church Is the Most Magical Negro Who Ever Magically Negro’d
In 2016, there was a whole lot of hubbub when the trailer for the Eddie Murphy-helmed movie Mr. Church hit the streets. It’s a movie based on a story by Susan McMartin and the time she spent with her own real-life Mr. Church. It looked like a film where Eddie was playing a pantheon-level Magical…
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Mr. Church: Just Another Film About a Black Man Being a White Woman’s Servant
White Hollywood is nothing if not a microcosm of white America, a place where shucking and jiving, bucking and jumping, “Yes, suh; no, ma’am” Negroes are more readily accepted than their revolutionary counterparts. This country has a fetish with subservient black men that translates into adoration on-screen. It makes perfect sense to me, then, that…