"If we don't fight this film, King will become America's new Uncle Tom. You see, the writers molded him into a nice, quiet guy who was told by a white man that if he had difficulties being a leader, he could help him.. What Uncle Tom character inspired a child to be a leader?" 
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1287110030207209474
On the portrayal of MLK in Paul Klein's 'King':
"Dr. King's reliance on some phantom white strategist posturing as the brains of the Civil Rights Movement, and a misplaced arrogance in Dr. King, coupled with a whimpering, grimacing, confused and indecisive childishness."
"Dr. King's reliance on some phantom white strategist posturing as the brains of the Civil Rights Movement, and a misplaced arrogance in Dr. King, coupled with a whimpering, grimacing, confused and indecisive childishness."
"Only Network TV... would have the [gall] to do the story of a man who gave his life in pursuit of equal rights for blacks... with no black involvement in the writing, producing, and directing chores.. Thats Network TV. The last bastion of white supremacy in America."
While many black critics connected King's ratings failure to the distorted, white supremacist portrayal of MLK and the total lack of black involvement in the production, Paul Klein had other ideas:
"We got every literate human being in the United States."
"We got every literate human being in the United States."
You see what Paul's saying? "We got everybody who read about 'King' in advance"
He equates literacy with the white readership of the white press, entirely erasing the "decidedly negative" appraisals of 'King' in the black press. For Paul, rich whites are the heroes of the story
He equates literacy with the white readership of the white press, entirely erasing the "decidedly negative" appraisals of 'King' in the black press. For Paul, rich whites are the heroes of the story
Perhaps youve noticed a pattern? For the benefit of folks slow on the uptake, a few relevant items.
Paul cynically pushing for NBC programming, portraying "'good Negroes' who betrayed no sign of hostility or resentment, posed no threat" to white audiences
Paul cynically pushing for NBC programming, portraying "'good Negroes' who betrayed no sign of hostility or resentment, posed no threat" to white audiences
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1288270346282577921?s=20
Paul, as a Childrens' Television Workshop, Ford Foundation, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting consultant, assisting all of the above target "ghetto children"
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1280529317240483840
Paul Klein, producer of a part softcore porno, part anti-communist, racist, Pentagon advertisement called "Basic Training," which one reviewer added:
"also manages to insult blacks -- portraying them as jive-talking people in servile positions"
"also manages to insult blacks -- portraying them as jive-talking people in servile positions"
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1289052632640888833
Or, one of the first pornos Paul Klein commissioned at Playboy, "Black Venus", explicitly tapping into the tradition of Western colonizers pornographically depicting their "authority and property over the virgin soil of the imperial territory"
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1283500758760075266
I wonder if Paul personally mailed a copy of "Black Venus" to his former investor, Petschek, the spooky banker who participated in the elimination of Patrice Lumumba?
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1290660822637846529
Obvious to everyone except Playboy "Marxists":
"It's difficult to ignore the tone of condescension bordering on contempt for less desirable audience segments.. The unstated but implicit word in... 'young adult' or 'urban educated' was of course, 'white'"
"It's difficult to ignore the tone of condescension bordering on contempt for less desirable audience segments.. The unstated but implicit word in... 'young adult' or 'urban educated' was of course, 'white'"
https://twitter.com/paulkleinfancam/status/1287465884810870784
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