The convener of the Foundation of Concerned Arts Professionals (FOCAP), Kojo Preko Dankwa, says the portrayal of black people in movies has gone a long way toward strengthening the discriminatory acts against them.
According to him, the blacks, through their movies, project themselves as witches and wizards, and they fail to use their black nature to project the abilities of black men.
Speaking in a phone interview with Max Morning Dew on Monday, the media personality emphasized that racism had not been a history due to how Ghanaians even projected the black stories.
He said they always projected the agenda of idols and doers of evil things, unlike the whites, who, through their movies, projected physical strength and wisdom through inventions and innovations.
Dankwa observed that the Americans with the concept of “Rambo and Van Damme” roles projected strength, and even Chinese, Indians, and Mexicans had replicated the act to tell their rich cultural stories.
He expressed the need for African story writers to channel energies into projecting the rich culture and the ability of black people to erase the erroneous notion that black people were evil creatures.
“Our forefathers and political leaders did not do much to erase the discriminatory notion. A local adage has it that if you’re going to church and you meet a white man, then you have met your God. This changed our perception of white men, making us think that they are our gods and better than us. This has become a psychological problem among blacks,” he noted.
Dankwa further stated that the whites, after penetrating “our culture” to inject and impose their culture on the blacks, also created body creams that could bleach the blacks to become white.
“Why didn’t they make creams that could make one black?” he queried as he maintained that they were psychologically shaping and massaging the minds of the blacks to make them believe that the white was better than the black.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
