Expendable Black Guy

I think everyone has seen it in movies or TV Shows. There is a tense dangerous situation and a group of people are trying to survive. As a audience member you start to notice the characters seem to fit certain generic archetypes. And that's when you notice the Expendable Black Guy. He is the guy that you can start a countdown until he becomes the first/only person to die.

A recent example that has pissed me off is a show on TNT called Falling Skies. It's a show about a bunch of survivors and resistance fighters of an alien invasion of Earth. Well, when the show first aired last year there was a scene were the survivors had a run in with some nefarious humans and in the scuffle the only "good guy" to die was a brother. Then later in the same season a Black father "sacrificed" himself to save his son. Then in the beginning of this season the same son gets killed by crossfire from fellow humans. And in the most recent episode the only newly introduced charterer (Jamil) gets killed by alien bugs.

The thing is, it's not like there are even that many casualties on the show. All the people I mentioned make up about 70% of all the deaths on the show. At this point there is only one brother left, so I guess his days are probably numbered.

I like how this kind of thing was brought to attention in a the scene from The Walking Dead (which is ironically very similar in premise to Falling Skies) . T-Dog (cant a brother get a regular name) was talking to the old man and he was worried that his days were numbered because he was the only Black person in their group full of White people (and one Asian).

 

Its a formula America is comfortable with I guess. But I didn't notice that about Falling Skies until you said that and its not like the deaths stirred up any real emotions though. There was no rally cry to defend the loss or anything. Well I guess its up to those of us talented in that feel to start writing better story lines.

 

hell naw

u know we gotta reinforce that stereotype

mothafucka probably has a criminal history too

 

Oh yeah, in Walking Dead don't they kind of imply that he's "inner city" or something? I'm not sure if that's due to subtle racism or to feed the central conflict (other than the one featuring the entire human race being turned into ravenous zombies, lol) of the first season within the group, namely T-Dog vs. the redneck (Merle? or something like that) played by Michael Rooker (who survives). All I can say is... damn.

 

What the hell ever happened to the black dude and his son from the first two episodes? Guess we can't have two dudes fighting to keep themselves and their kid safe especially if the other guy is black

I think I read Merle is coming back next season. Should be interesting.
I still don't get why so much of America can't except bm as anything but violent thugs. You'd think at this point that shit would be old

 

all i got to say for u slow bus mothafuckas is.....


T-DOGGGGGG!

:smt081



as for the bm+kid....keep dreaming bojangles

 

I'm pretty sure T-Dawg gets a real name in this upcoming season....

 

T-Money!

 

Jamaal Johnson or Tyrone Jones?

 

T-Bagg...

Nah, my guess is that he may be Tyrese? Considering there was no T-Dawg in the comics.

 

another thread where brothas be feelin sorry for themselves lol

 

pause

 

Seriously. What's up lately with all these "brothers" popping up here on some straight ignorant black hater time shit? :smt017

 

Yo gangsta, that's YO cuz


i'm just in the car for a ride

 

He must have gotten banned. I think he might be white.....just looking at his name and attitude.

 

Which name? The name he picked or the name Petty gave him?

 

I'm just saying. Either these are some ignorant white dudes thinking they are out smarting people here or they are some ignorant self hating black dudes with all that level of sheer stupidity and hate for complete strangers on a website. SMDH.

 

in the words of GFunk...

i DIED

:smt043

 

Sorry didn't notice petty was changing quotes.