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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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The Reviews Are in: ‘Uncle Tom’ is a Hit! | Larry Elder
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Well, my documentary Uncle Tom is out and the reviews are in and it appears to be a smash.
Here's the trailer.
I focus on three things.
Belief in God.
Belief in myself.
And my belief in the United States of America.
Being a black conservative is just natural.
It's what my family raises on.
Faith, family, individual responsibility, education, service to the nation, an entrepreneurial mind.
Being a business owner in America is one of the greatest privileges of being an American.
I think black Americans should believe and uphold the ideas of constitutional inherent rights.
I always felt that if I worked hard that I could overcome the circumstances of my life.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something.
Humans are naturally conservative.
You grow up being told to work hard for what you got.
You don't grow up being told you're going to get something because you just want it.
Like you ain't got to work for it.
But Democrats, they say, hey, we give you everything for free.
That ain't reality.
And already people are posting their reaction to the film.
Here's one.
Uncle Tom, normally a derogatory term pointed at black conservatives, is now a feature length film produced by Larry Elder and directed by Justin Malone.
This film has a lot of different personalities, all black conservatives, people like Candace Owens, people like Brandon Tatum, people like Jesse Lee Peterson, people like Joel Patrick, people like King Face.
We've done stuff on this channel before people like Alan West, people like Herman Cain and a lot, a lot, a lot more people.
All of them have a common story, different story, but common in the sense that they love America and that hard work and not blaming people for your problems and not being a victim is a common thread.
A major theme in the movie Uncle Tom is what the welfare state has done to devastate the Black family.
I argue that the welfare state has incentivized women to marry the government and has incentivized men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility.
Or, as economist Walter Williams, prominently featured in my film, puts it...
One devastating thing that's happening in Black communities is the high illegitimacy rate.
Now, but however, that has nothing to do with racial discrimination.
That is, matter of fact, illegitimacy rate among black teenagers in 1918 was less than that among white teenagers in 1918.
In fact, there's another big problem, the breakdown of the black family.
And probably breakdown is not the proper word.
It means, I should say, not forming in the first place.
And this is entirely unprecedented.
That is, only 40% of black kids live in two-parent families.
Now, back in 1925 in Harlem, 85% of black kids live in two-parent families.
In 1870 and 1880, in cities like Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, you found numbers like 70 to 85% of black kids live in two-parent families.
Now, how do you explain that?
Can you say that there was not as much racial discrimination in the United States in the late 1800s or the early 1900s?
No, that doesn't cut water.
And this young man who reviewed Uncle Tom gets it.
And when it all comes down to it, it's gonna come down to, like what they talk about in this movie, no family structure in the home whatsoever.
I wish that they can make a law to where if you get a girl pregnant, They gonna track you.
You know them things they put on your ankle?
That ankle bracelet gonna show you going to work.
And showing you spending at least three to four hours with that child every day.
I don't care if you and the baby mom are into it.
You got to show that you're there with that child three to four, three hours, at least three hours or something a day.
Because they make it too easy for me, especially black men.
They make it too easy.
We can just run off and go anywhere we want to, have all these different babies by all kinds of different women.
Ain't got to take care of them.
And, you know, especially, you know, just think, you...
You own welfare.
They're giving you food stamps as a black man.
They're giving you the phone as a black man.
They're giving you housing.
Especially if you're a player and you got multiple girls, you can just stay with any one of them you want to.
So life is easy for you.
But what they don't tell you, the destruction comes in as that child.
The movie also refutes the notion that virtually every problem can be traced directly to slavery and to Jim Crow.
Thomas Sowell is prominently featured in the movie.
Here is Mr.
Sowell on that topic.
Certainly the black kids who are growing up today have a higher material standard of living than I had.
The only difference was that the schools were good when I came along.
They were especially good in New York at that time, hard as that is to believe.
But the kids who grew up in that same place where I lived, they will not get that same education.
Now that can be blamed on somebody.
But it has very little to do with what happened 200 years ago.
And here's another review from IMDB. This may be the best documentary I have ever seen.
I am a professional filmmaker.
This is one of, if not the most important film of the 21st century.
I do not say that lightly.
Everyone has to see this.
It is truly life-changing.
It is a film full of heart, victory, unity, truth, and true patriotism.
You will never be so proud to be an American.
Don't pass on it." Now, the film starts out with and introduces you to a young contractor named Chad.
Chad was a lifelong Democrat, a Christian, who was challenged by a fellow Christian to read the Democratic Party platform and the Republican Party platform.
And after doing so, Chad discovered, wow, I'm a Republican.
And the grief he got from friends, the grief he got from families, including from his own mom.
You said that the reason that just as many white people are killed by police is because, well, it doesn't really mean anything because...
I said there are more white people killed by police than black people.
That's what I said.
What?
So imagine the grief he got from other people when his own mom disagrees with him.
Here's more from that phone call.
And the thing is, most people don't want to hear the truth.
They'd rather believe a lie.
And when you believe a lie, things just get worse.
So at least I'm willing to tell the truth about how 70% of black kids are growing up.
Yes, I do.
I can give you the references.
70% of black kids are growing up without a father in the home.
They're being influenced by the gang members in their communities.
They're being influenced by drugs.
They're being influenced by schools.
They don't teach education.
It's all about what kind of shoes you're wearing, all this other nonsense.
And they don't have their fathers at home to guide them, to teach them the correct way.
They're not in the church, they're not in the Bible, but they can tell you the lyrics to every Migos song, they can tell you the lyrics to every Lil Wayne song, but they can't tell you anything about scripture.
And this is the environment that they're growing up in, and because they're growing up in that environment...
I see black men, mentors, and I'm sick every day.
Because they're growing up in that environment...
Because they're growing up in that environment, that's where you get all the gang violence and shootings and drugs.
And because it's so out of control, you have to have the police there.
Wow.
And here's another review from IMDB. End of quote.
I am most pleased at how informative people found it.
It got to me, okay?
It got to me.
I didn't boo-hoo or anything, but I did set the well up because I understood how this has come so far and how close we were at one point to really turning a corner and that whole thing got squandered.
I mentioned that in my conservative take to spoil the section, but yeah, a 7 for emotional impact.
For the category of intangibles, I'm going to give this film a 9, mainly because of the information that it provides and information that you can't get anywhere.
And it's really excellent.
I leave some room at the top for it to move up, but I think a 9 is a good score.
I thought I knew everything there is to know about this topic, but there is some things in here that I didn't know about.
A clean, wonderfully informative production.
I was aware of some of the notions put forward in the film, but by no means whatsoever was I ready to be immersed with such factually unequivocal depth.
Truly eye-opening and fantastic to see such a diverse array of characters, each with their own insights and anecdotes.
A straightforward and rather in-your-face approach to demolishing the left's insistence on minority control.
Superb production, cast, and motive.
Regardless of your political leanings, this no-holds-barred piece definitely gets the mind racing and questioning all that we are inundated with by the media.
Back to Chad and his mom.
I'm saying, I'm saying that people like that, people like that who are doing the right thing, they're looked at as squares and I looked at as cool.
It's called acting white.
And according to this gentleman, it's a real problem in the black community.
African-Americans in communities where I've worked, there's been notion of acting white.
Which sometimes is overstated, but there's an element of truth to it where, okay, if boys are reading too much, then, well, why are you doing that?
Or why are you speaking so properly?
And the notion that there's some authentic way of being black, that if you're going to be black, you have to act a certain way, And wear a certain kind of clothes.
That, you know, that has to go.
And speaking of Obama, he's prominently featured in the film.
He kicked off the trailer.
Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
Obama came into office with a great deal of hope and promise to heal the racial divide, to bring us together.
Indeed, he got 70% approval rating before he set foot in office after he got elected because so many people who didn't vote for him still pulled for him.
What did he do?
Race relations got worse under Obama.
Why?
Because every time he had a chance to say something soothing and healing, he went the other way.
The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
Really?
If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
I don't even know what that means.
He gave a speech before the United Nations and evoked Ferguson, even though we know, hands up, don't shoot, was a lie.
He invited Al Sharpen to the White House over 70 times.
Why?
Al Sharpen is arguably the most prominent race card anti-Semitic incendiary in America.
And he embraced the Black Lives Matter movement.
And his agey Eric Holder said, when it comes to matters of race, quote, America is a nation of cowards, whatever the hell that means.
Uncle Tom talks about the promise Obama had and how Obama fumbled that promise.
I think you're really going to enjoy the film.
Now, in its opening weekend, I'm happy to say that Uncle Tom generated twice the revenue that Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine did in its opening weekend.
Twice the revenue.
And has it gotten the attention of the major Hollywood media?
Well...
Now, be sure and see the movie Uncle Tom.
Just go to UncleTom.com.
Tell your friends.
Even better, tell your liberal friends to check out the movie.
And while you're there, be the first in your hood to buy you some Uncle Tom merch.
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