A Black Masculinist Review of The Color Purple(s)

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Welcome to The Onyx Report's Daily Black Masculinist News, where we Black Male Justice Advocates uplift Black men and boys using critical analysis in today's video, "A Black Masculinist Review of The Color Purple(s)."
The Onyx Report is a program that critically analyzes the experiences, histories, and perceptions pertaining to Black males in American society across age, class, religion, sexuality, and occupation. I am your host, Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Fresno State, Black Male Studies scholar, and Black Male Justice Advocate. In the program, we examine current events and major issues using an empirically-driven Black masculinist theoretical lens, thus including such concepts as the Black male dual economy, anti-Black misandry, phallicism, the subordinate male-target hypothesis, the subculture of violence theory, and the Black Gynarchy).
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@royaltysupreme1295

Antoine Fisher was the closest thing we’ve seen to a Male Color Purple. The only thing is Denzel showed some grace by displaying some positive female characters.

@robertmonroejr1315

When I was in college I read TCP and said it was anti-Black male garbage and Walker was a misandrist. The only good Black males were children, old men and simps. Any Black male with sexual & physical vitality and a backbone was seen as bad. Womanists on campus told me I couldn’t judge Walker from one book so I spent the summer wading through all of her work…novels, poetry, and essays. After reading everything she had published up to that time, I declared that now I definitely knew that Walker was an anti-Black misandrist.

@pervertedalchemist9944

To be honest: "The Color Purple 2: Electric Boogaloo" should have been called "Emotional Labor: The Movie".

@MrTimeless101

This is the review we needed 40 years ago when the original purple came out.

@albertwimberly1860

Doc. I'm a late boomer 1963. I have never seen the color purple, read the book, thought it was trash then . Hated all the stereotypes. Thanks for stomaching" this mess. It needs a rename the purple bane.

@TollFree999

I’ve dated a Black woman who said that the job of a bw is to break a Black man down.

@yepyep6916

They tried to soften the movie and increase its entertainment value. This story should be classified as Black Female Fantasy. It’s not rooted in reality but in producing an emotional thrills that women tend to enjoy. This is similar how men love action movies. The problem I have is when people confuse fantasy with reality and propaganda pushed to influence audiences

@royaltysupreme1295

Adolph Caesar is a National Treasure and A Soldiers Story is my favorite movie of all time. He killed it in both movies.

@DeeDaKaang1

I watched it yesterday & had 1 major problem with this movie.....It went from Mr. being evil in 1985 and ripping Celie & Nettie apart to literally being the devil by 2023 and attempting to grape his 13 year old sister-in-law in her sleep & then shooting at her after throwing her out at night in the midst of a rain storm.

@onevoice4894

This is the review I’ve been waiting for.

@pauljohnson936

Dr. T Hasan Johnson never disappoints in his breakdowns of these misandrist TV shows and movies.

@thewatcher486

Dr.T, thank you, sir. I cried when you said blackmen are just now acknowledging the fact that we aren't allowed to protect or cover our women because they actively dont want to follow or fall under our authority. We can't cover what does not belong to us. Did 28 years of marriage battling in this environment. I filed for divorce because of this and other stuff. Now she is fighting it and dragging her feet, causing me to suffer monetary with lawyer fees to make her comply. Woman, go be that strong black woman, and let me be. 50/50 this shit out and move the fuck on.

@mr_willwhite8465

I'm 39. Txtd my mom last night & told her thx for never letting me watch TCP as a kid (still never saw it to this day). She had the discernment to see how slanted the movie was against men. She grew up as 1 of 7 with my grandfather/grandmother in a very patriarchal house. My grandmother was a U of Michigan college grad but my grandfather ran things in the family. I think that lived experience helped my mom see bm/bw relationship dynamics the way most bw don't

@southpaw2k1

Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, I'm SO glad you brought up The Joy Luck Club, when you said it was the Asian Color Purple. I thought I was the ONLY one who described it as such.😮

@bcroyceart

Growing up black girls used to say I wasn’t black because I hasn’t watched the color purple. Never other brothas mind you at least when it came to that movie.

@ebonthomas7912

I was a young boy when the original came out in the 80s. I think I remember watching it with a minimal understanding. Over the years I would see it in spurts but I didn't ever find myself enthusiastic to want to watch it. To be honest I only remember the somewhat redeemable parts. Outside of that it was a traumatic movie. I will never watch this new movie just based on Oprah being part of it.