‘Something New’ out on DVD!
CVK
As you may remember, Jen and I absolutely LOVED the movie “Something New.” Finally - a movie about interracial relationships that doesn’t melodramatize the subject or insult our intelligence! And when’s the last time you saw a movie — let alone a romantic comedy — that actually faced white privilege head-on? You can hear our review of the flick on episode 16 of Addicted to Race.
If you missed it when it was in theaters, here’s your chance to see it! It’s out on DVD now so go pick it up or Netflix it! 
April wrote:
I want to see this one! It reminds me of my husband and I.
Posted 26 May 2006 at 10:31 pm ¶
Tiki wrote:
A quick grammar lesson
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Yes: “..my husband and me.” or “It reminds me of myself.”
No: “It reminds me of I.” or “It reminds me of my husband and I.”
Yes: “My husband and I went to the store.” or “I went to the store.”
No: “My husband and me went to the store.” or “Me went to the store.”
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/meandi
Posted 27 May 2006 at 8:25 am ¶
Merq wrote:
wow, aren’t you quite the asshole?
Posted 27 May 2006 at 10:35 am ¶
lyonside wrote:
Tiki: So you have no opinion on the movie, but you’d likely sit there with the close-caption on and nitpick the grammar? That’s so… sad.
This is the internet - people are typing “on the fly,” and often very casually, so as to make it more like a friendly (or at least not-in-school) conversation.. of course, I’m assuming you know anything about that… my bad.
Merq: Grammar Nazi, NeoNazi, we get all types on MMW.
April: keep posting, girl. Is it just the ethnicity of the cast that reminds you of you and your husband, or were you faced with similar choices?
Posted 27 May 2006 at 4:03 pm ¶
mtevc wrote:
Merq…once again, on the money there…call Tiki out! I write for a living, but I wouldn’t sit about and waste time nitpicking grammar in a discussion board. Seems a bit petty, huh? We all use vernacular, or slang, or even little
on a discussion board. Are you gonna’ call me out Tiki for the use of gonna’?
Posted 27 May 2006 at 9:57 pm ¶
Charlette wrote:
If you are as old as I am you will admit that this race relationship crap has not gone any further than the 50’s and 60’s. It is the black women who give other black women hard times for wanting or dating a white man.
White men rape dark skinned women on the average of 1million per year around the world. Why isn’t any one mad about white women and the dark man? Or is that old hat? No! Why couldn’t she have been living away from her family and all of her friends were white and then she meets this white man as an equal or his better then what? but the settings is always the same everyone has their mouths and eyes wide open like its news.
Reality is really something different.
Posted 28 May 2006 at 12:06 am ¶
Charlette wrote:
and what about a white man dating a black woman who looks like white?
That is really where we are now, because since the beginning of time everyone has been mixing, some people just seem to think it occurred last year or something. What about showing the real mixing of the already mixed up people? Oh I’m sorry that is in the closet still because we are chewing on 1950’s topics.
Posted 28 May 2006 at 12:09 am ¶
anonymous wrote:
it means your kids disappear to white.
Posted 28 May 2006 at 9:05 pm ¶
Adrianna wrote:
The problem is that we are color struck.
Posted 31 May 2006 at 4:05 pm ¶
Bohemian Writer wrote:
YAY! I got this the 2nd day it came out, love love LOVE it!
PS-hope to see more movies like this in the future!
Posted 31 May 2006 at 6:08 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
Who cares this movie did not make any money nor break any ground socially. You people are always looking for the magic pill that will bring the races together when it is not possible. Why don’t we try co-existence for a change. Black Women date white men everyday and nobody cares except .
1. the media
2. Robert De Niro
3. Halle Berry
4. Black Women
5. White Males
I always thought that Black Women and White Men were perfect together because both of you are coniving, ambitous, SOBS.
Posted 10 Jun 2006 at 8:35 pm ¶