RACE = BLACK? Really?

Because of the ignorance that's out there in the world, you get two posts today.

Yes, we have a chance to elect either the first woman or black man as president of our nation. Awesome. But we still have brain farts like this one.

This is a link to Time Magazine's 25 Most Important Films on Race. That is the title. Except there's a problem. These are all black films, and some of them have little if nothing to do with "race."

I knew something was direly wrong when I saw Madea's Family Chance-At-Embarrassing-Black-America-Yet-Again on the list followed by I Am Legend. The author of the list, Richard Corliss, or his editor, either doesn't quite understand the meaning of race or didn't bother to come up with a good headline.

RACE doesn't equal BLACK. I expected to see movies like Crash, Babel, A Raisin In the Sun, White Men Can't Jump and Jungle Fever on the list. These are movies that deal with race.

Now, as far as black movies and movies that have significant black characters are concerned, Corliss had a good variety. But I still can't understand how he could dare put some trash (although some people do find it entertaining) like Madea's Family ... on that list.

There are several other GOOD movies he could have chosen including: Love Jones, Waiting to Exhale, Dreamgirls and Ray. Hell, he could have even gone with American Gangster. But not Madea or anything else Tyler Perry has done those far in his career (although he is quite adept at stacking that cheese).

Richard Corliss, if I had your e-mail, I'd send you one right this minute. Don't worry, I'm looking for it as we speak.