I watched Dakota Fanning in Hounddog last night. Gawd, everything in that movie was something we owned. Sleeping in junk cars was camping out, the shitty house, the clothes, the pots and pans they used. Even the weeds around the screen door. It was familiar and depressing. I liked when the black dude called her a little nigger and he said anyone who lets people walk all over them is a nigger. That made her a little white nigger. That Lewellen character was pathetic....and too familiar. I wonder if Dakota was embarrassed to play that? I was embarrassed watching it. It's humiliating to remember being a little white nigger girl. Though Dakota can count her money until the end of time now. Pretty good movie though.*
I am very familiar with adults who do anything they want right in front of chidren and then accuse the child of being a sinner for their curiosity and the knowledge they didn't even ask for. It was a theme in this movie. Grown ups were so stupid back then. Mad Men in the boondocks.
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I think if I ever write a book I should call it "The Little White Nigger."
Sounds great, but the use of the "N" word by a white person usually creates some problems.
I know. And it's not a word I use, but, in this context, it's right. It goes far beyond skin color.
I would buy it.
That comment he made in the movie gave me great thought. A nigger is really someone who is beneath you, someone you treat like shit. And if you let people do that to you, then a nigger is what you become.
Dakota is one of my favorite actresses, I cant wait to watch it
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