{"id":3241,"date":"2007-03-11T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/11\/nice-white-lady-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:07:04","slug":"nice-white-lady-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3241","title":{"rendered":"Nice White Lady To The Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W01WzaTIQPk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MadTV parodies <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0166943\/\">Music of the Heart<\/a>, the story of a teacher (Meryl Streep) who bucks the system to bring love of music to the underprivileged colored kids she teachers. Or maybe they&#8217;re parodying <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0112792\/\">Dangerous Minds<\/a>, the story of an ex-marine teacher (Michelle Pfeiffer) who inspires her inner-city students with a great opening credits song. Oh, wait, I think that was <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0463998\/\">Freedom Writers<\/a>, the story of a history teacher (Hilary Swank) who inspires underprivileged inner-city students by making them read the diary of Anne Frank. (&#8220;See, underprivileged inner city students? Things could be worse!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>All of these movies were based on true stories, and I don&#8217;t doubt that the women these movies were inspired by are terrific teachers and all that. But I somehow doubt their real lives were as simplistic and, well, soppy as these films are. Why does our culture have this hunger to see at-risk youth rescued by the pure hearts of gorgeous white women? And isn&#8217;t there something smary about, well, about an image like the one below this paragraph?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3240\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/music-of-the-heart.jpg\"  title=\"Publicity photo from &quot;Music of the Heart,&quot; starring Meryl Streep and a whole platoon of adorable underprivileged children.\" alt=\"Publicity photo from &quot;Music of the Heart,&quot; starring Meryl Streep and a whole platoon of adorable underprivileged children.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a generation of filmmakers saw <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0062425\/\">Up The Down Staircase<\/a> when they were kids and are now determined to remake it&#8230; and remake it&#8230; and remake it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the MadTV parody (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRhY1kwiZkg\">YouTube link<\/a>) totally cracked me up. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/assaultonblacksanity.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/nice-white-lady.html\">Assault On Black Folks&#8217; Sanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MadTV parodies Music of the Heart, the story of a teacher (Meryl Streep) who bucks the system to bring love of music to the underprivileged colored kids she teachers. Or maybe they&#8217;re parodying Dangerous Minds, the story of an ex-marine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16756,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/16756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}