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All right guys, so now this is going to be volume two of the little series that I started on, uh, viewing movies. It's called Chronicles at the Movies. Uh, this film that I'm going to go through now, that we're going to go through together, it's a film that S. Lean started about 11 years ago. It's called Something New, right? Now, I had never seen this film. I remember when it came out. I remember, I, I remember me and brothers talking about it, uh, because of the, because of what the film was going to be about, which was interracial relationships, particularly the black female and the white male. I never got, I never got around to seeing it until a few days ago. I saw that it was, uh, on the schedule on my, on my, uh, cable programming. So I said, you know what, let me DVR this so I could check it out. And, uh, this film was very, very, very revelatory. It was very enlightening in regards to a lot of the things that we already know that astute people, when I say people, people, I'm not just talking about so-called black men, I'm talking about people in general, know about the so-called many so-called black women. And this film is going to show a series of of messages and themes. And a lot of times, if you watch films very closely, sometimes they reveal subconscious messages willingly, meaning they purposefully put certain messages in the films willingly. And sometimes they unwillingly put subconscious messages in the film, and you can learn from both.
So anyway, this woman, S. Lean, to get to the point, she plays a so-called business-minded, uh, career woman, black woman. And, you know, the narrative in America is that, uh, business-minded black women can't find anybody, quote unquote, on their level. So this is basically what the film is about. This, this film was basically created, it was written by a, uh, black woman named Chris Turner, who has a, uh, a career or history in screenwriting going back to the '90s. She wrote for Living Single, she wrote Cosby, she wrote a few shows, Everybody Hates Chris, The Bernie Mac Show. And basically, in her real life, Chris Turner is is another so-called single black woman who is who likes to go on TV shows and talk about how there's not any men on her level. So she created a film to try to broadcast that, quote unquote, phenomenon. And we're going to go through this film now. We're going to see certain scenes that she puts in to show you a lot of the, uh, issues that so-called black men should be aware of and so-called black females should be aware of as well. So let's see.
Jacko, Kenny McQueen. Notice her name in the movie. S. Lean's character name is Kenya McQueen. All right, Kenya, you know, to to accentuate her so-called Blackness. And McQueen, the term "McQueen" means obviously to try to exalt her as some type of royalty.
"Hello, hello. So I looked over the letter of intent from the bankers and I have a few questions."
"Um, shouldn't we wait for well, isn't someone else coming in?"
"Nope, this is it. I'm the senior manager. When we get further into the deal, I'll I'll bring someone in to collect documents."
Obviously, this scene is to once again push the, um, the victim narrative of the black female, that she's, uh, you know, she's working at such a high level in Corporate America, but allegedly nobody respects her or her work. That's really what this, what this scene was meant to show, that, you know, she's a black female in Corporate America and white males don't respect her work. You know, when in reality, most of the time it's white males that are giving them these jobs.
All right, now in this scene, uh, this is what I call like a setup scene. This is a scene that basically, um, it establishes the the main character's motivations. It it establishes, uh, what her mindset is, what her flaws are, what she's looking for in life. And a lot of times in female, in female-oriented shows or or movies, they'll normally have her surrounded by three friends who normally have the same, if not worse, issues than she does. And, uh, this is to program regular women into believing that they should take women's advice that are in positions that they don't want to be in. And we see that phenomenon a lot in real life. You see women taking advice from other women who who are not in good relationships, but they're taking advice from them, or not in a relationship at all. So they allow that woman to infiltrate their mind and sabotage their own life. So let's see what happens in this scene.
"Make a to."
"Yeah, we may not have everything we want at the moment, but we do have each other."
You see that, uh, a lot of these, a lot of these women in America, period, but the black women in particular, they like to brag about their, um, their status in the workforce, in the job market. But any man who has experience dealing with a lot of these women knows that they have a lot of insecurities. A lot of them are very unhappy and very depressed in real life. All right, and that's why they seek solace amongst each other because women, often times, who are unhappy, they need to be around other unhappy women so that they don't feel so insecure, so that they don't have to look at themselves, so that now they can look at their friends or their people in their circle and they could say, well, she's unhappy too. So the issue is not with me, it's with the world around me.
"Happy Valentine's Day."
"Happy Valentine's Day."
"This is fabulous."
"Okay, let's get down to business. We're the brothers. Where's that?"
Program number one. We, we can't find good men because, quote unquote, uh, all the black men are gay. But, you know, the funny thing is, if you see, if you ever see a lot of these black women on Facebook or any other type of social media outlet, they're very, very strong defenders of homosexuals. So it's funny that they try to blame rampant homosexuality for why they have issues with men.
Program number two. The good black man is with the white woman, and that is why we are the 42.4%. What you see that? So after the homosexual black man passes by, and the so-called quote unquote sellout brother with the white woman, now we go into the point of the film that black females have trouble, uh, maintaining positive relationships because of those issues and not their own. What, 42.4% of black women have never been married?
"I've read that article. It didn't say we'd never get married. It just said we had yet to."
"Okay, so when is it going to happen in the after life?"
"Well, even if 42.4% of us never get married, that still means 57.6 of us will, and that's a substantially greater percentage."
"Yes, 58% of you will get married, and out of that percent, 60% of you will get divorced."
"Thank you."
This number's clean. It's very impressive. However, those odds are completely against us. It says the phenomenon is most acute among African-American women who are educated professionals, judge, accountant, banker, pediatrician. Right? So you see how they laid out the round table? The round table is all super, super, super successful black females who are, quote unquote, having a hard time finding a man, not because they have a hard time finding a man, but because they have a hard time finding a man that, quote unquote, meets their requirements. So let's go on and see how their conversation lays out.
"FS, I'm just tired of being classified as a victim."
"Single black."
"Tell me about it. I'm tired of you guys being classified as victims too."
"Black professional woman destined to be unhappy and alone."
"I mean, I just have to keep believing I'll find the one."
"True. I don't even need all that. I just want a good brother."
"That's right. He doesn't have to make a lot of money, so long as he's got a job. He just has to be taller than me, college educated, and not crazy. No kids, good teeth, and no kinky sex."
"I mean, I like to switch it up a bit, but, you know."
"Yeah."
Okay, all those requirements, which she makes sound very basic, but, um, obviously there there are other issues that she has as it's going to lay out.
"You're doing it again. The list, Kenya. The list."
"You know what? You should have stayed with Rashid."
"Mham, the Muslim thing, whatever."
You see that? That was another buzz term, so-called chauvinist. Uh, and a lot of, uh, see, and and often times I see a lot of black males talk about this. They'll say things like, you know what, I noticed that so-called black women, they love, um, so-called thugs. Brothers have to understand something. It's not that the black woman likes thugs. Women, period, like disorder. They like chaos because that brings an element of excitement. All right, when there's order, that means monotony, that means predictability. A lot of times that means a man who's going to impose standards and who's going to, uh, be very, very disciplined. These are things that many females, unless they're raised in an environment like that, they, uh, they don't like. All right, because then there's no room for them to to add life, there's no room for them to do things that they may find exciting.
"All right, girl. Rashid was fine. Okay? I would have been a bean pie, mosque going, walking five steps behind his behind, wearing a burqa."
"So then how come you ain't with him then?"
"Obviously, you're just talking."
"Listen, I've been listening to this new CD by Dr. Leandra Phillips."
"Now she says if we..."
That's another thing. A lot of these females today, unfortunately, they love listening to so-called doctors. Right? At one time, the woman listened to her father and mother, and then her husband. Right? That's when that's when you had functional family units. Now women listen to, um, to quote unquote doctors that they see on TV. Right? Started predominantly with with the Oprah programming in the '80s. Right? Women searching for solace and advice after the feminist movement, in a lot of other women, as opposed to the normal structure.
This film is going to reinforce that we keep hanging on to this preconceived notion of of what we think we want. We're actually cutting ourselves off from our universal abundance. See?
"Well, that's partially true. See, we hold on so tight to this image that we have of our ideal, a black man. But she says that we've got to let go in order to let love flow. In fact, that's what it's called, let go, let flow. That means you, Kenya, no more lists. Let go, let flow."
"That's right. And it's a whole lot better than keep hope alive."
All right, that's that's that's it for this scene. Let's see what else.
All right, so now, uh, just to give you some background in the intermittent scenes, you know, we already left off. S. Lean, she was in the round table with her other, uh, equally desperate and lonely friends, and they were going over their issues that they have meeting men. So now S. Lean was set up on a blind date. The blind date occurred at a coffee shop. It happened to be, the blind date ended up being a Caucasian man. She was very uncomfortable with that situation and, uh, ended up that she couldn't deal with it. So she basically broke the date. She ends up going to a party at a at a very wealthy client of hers, and it ends up that the client's, the person who helped do the architecture at the client's house is the same guy that she had the date with. So now S. Lean is having an issue where she needs some redesigning done in her home. So even though they're both hesitant to, you know, to work with each other because of their poor experience of their blind date, he agrees. So now he's on, they they agree to meet at her home so that he can do an evaluation. Now he's driving there to meet her. I want you guys to pay attention to a few things. I want you guys to pay attention to the music that's playing, and also pay attention to what's going on in the vehicle as he drives over. I'm, I'm going to speak on it, but I just want you guys to pay attention to it as well.
[Music]
Remember, S. Lean's life right now is in great disharmony. Now here comes this Caucasian man who, uh, she already had a bad date with, and he was all for the date, but she was against it. Now remember, once again, her life is in great disharmony. He's driving up, playing, uh, what would be what would be called Buddhist music. Right? The Buddhist religion is associated with what? Great, great harmony, great calm. All right, so he, his character is coming to bring calm and peace and harmony into her life.
[Music]
All right, there goes that music.
[Music]
Now notice he has the dog with him. That dog is a is going to be a major totem figure. It's going to be a major symbolic figure in the film, and I'm going to explain that in part two as we go along.
[Music]
"What are you doing?"
That's the first hint that she has a subconscious, uh, attraction for him, and that she wants him to reciprocate, even though supposedly, like I explained, they had a bad first date and she claimed to not be attracted to white men or Caucasian men. But, you know, we're going to continue on, uh, on part two. Peace.