Youjo's Crits and Reviews

A lot of people have forgotten about this, but a years ago, Tim Burton said that he doesn't cast black people because race has nothing to do with the context of any of his movies.  I think this happened after Beetlejuice 1988. Black people were casted as football players in the afterlife. That makes sense. Most football players are black. We figured out decades later why that's problematic with the Kaepernick situation. Entertainment is all black people are allowed to have so when an entertainer has a political opinion it's easy to tell them to shut up. "Dance, monkey! Dance!" narrative. But with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice having that soul train scene after he said it, the context tells me that black people are allowed to exist in Tim Burton's aesthetic if they are not stereotypical singing dancing caricatures.  A lot of (white) people will argue that Tim Burton isn't racist because he casted a Latina to play Astrid. The problem with that is a lot of Mexicans...

 Some things that I need to clear up that I see a lot of people messing up. I'm going to be calling a lot of people out here. Yakuza is not the Japanese word for gang. The Yakuza are a specific game where a lot of the original members are dead. A lot of people calling themselves Yakuza today are posers. You can't have Japanese Mafia. First of all of this this thing called culture. Second of all there's this thing called geographic location in relation to culture. Mafia is Italian. Yakuza is Japanese. The "however many numbers families" e.i. "the four families" is also an Italian(-American) Mafia reference. They don't have that in Japan either. There's way more to gangs than what's going on in Italy and Japan. stop romanticizing gangs if you're not going to add in the crips and bloods, because a lot of people that I'm addressing that are having these issues are Americans. A lot of y'all are getting your information from...