I saw the wonderful movie ‘Yesterday’ yesterday, but then realized how racist it was because there was nothing negative in it about President Trump.
How racist of this movie to extol the greatness of the Beatles, of English country life, of capitalism, and traditional values of love and honor. How racist! And how dare they ignore Donald Trump’s racism!
Let me tell you more about this racist movie. A person of color, a man of Pakistani descent embraces life living in Great Britain. He doesn’t want to travel to the Middle East or somewhere else to join Al Qaeda or the Taliban. He simply wants to play music and sing the average songs that he has written and lead a meaningful life in the country that welcomed his parents who embraced the idea of becoming Englishmen and Englishwomen even though they have darker skin than Old John Bull.
Jack Malik has a white English girlfriend, Ellie, who awkwardly loves him in their quaint English seaside town and he doesn’t even know it because he is so decent that he doesn’t even realize how decent he is. Apparently, Jack fancies himself a singer. How old fashioned. Doesn’t Jack know how England hates his dark Pakistani skin, that England has drenched the world in blood, has oppressed the Irish, colonized, etc.? No, Jack in this movie is so decent that when never-expected fame comes his way, he never lets it go to his head to mistreat anyone.
Through an odd happenstance—a worldwide power surge and failure combined with his hitting a public bus while riding his bicycle—Jack Malik awakens in a hospital bed, missing two front teeth, but with lovely Ellie by his side. Dark-skinned Jack, who apparently is not even a member of a far-left terrorist organization, has only white friends, mind you, who give him a welcome back, homecoming party where they present him with a beautiful new guitar to replace the one smashed in the bus accident. Suddenly, Jack, in his emotional and physical pain, plays the Beatles song, “Yesterday,” and his friends look at him in awe that this average songwriter could all of a sudden produce a priceless gem which apparently they have never heard. Jack begins to understand that somehow he is the only person in the world that knows of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. ‘Yesterday’ goes on from there as Jack spends every free moment trying to remember Beatles lyrics and singing their songs for an appreciative 21st Century World filled with algorithms and “Likes,” and amazed at Jack’s overnight brilliance.
Super Groups were white males: the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who
This is, of course, racist with a Capital R, because, it implies that the person of color can’t make it on his own without copying the White Man Beatles. Jack is so “co-opted” by White Supremacy that the music recording company marketing people have to reject the White Album as one of Jack’s albums because it is exclusionary and offensive, even though the Beatles did in fact have a White Album, a Red Album, and a Blue Album. Did someone say the colors of Great Britain’s flag? The Beatles must have been racists.
Also, all of the concertgoers in the movie hearing Jack play are white. Now, I see the not-so-subtle racism: the movie wants to return to a time “Yesterday,” when all the Super Groups were white males: the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, when White People ruled the airwaves and American and British culture in the 1970s back to the 1950s was White. Yes, there was an agreed upon culture in the United States. It was white, protestant, hard-working, family-oriented, Baseball, Hot-dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet.
This is what “Yesterday,” is about after all – that there were days of yore when it was not racist to say the obvious—that cities run by Democrats are rat-infested and dysfunctional. That’s why people love Donald Trump, because of his enemies, who destroyed the black family, but who call Trump racist because he wants an America that works. This movie is racist because it makes no mention of how racist Donald Trump’s tweets are. People despise Trump’s enemies; that’s part of the president’s appeal, as Gerard Baker wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal.
In the end, Ellie, the teacher of school children who has good morals, wins Jack’s heart, and apparently they don’t sleep together until it’s clear that they are going to get married and have a wonderful life raising two British children, and attending country fairs and resorts by the shore. Jack’s parents are so British that this Pakistani mother has a bit of a drinking problem and the father has weight and food issues, but both have that cheerful, unflappable British demeanor. All their friends are white and everyone seems to get along without a government run encounter session on the dialectic of class struggle. The Pakistani immigrant parents seem grateful to live in Britain with their dark skin. Haven’t they ever heard of Colin Kaepernick?
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OK, back to the racist ranting
OK, back to the racist ranting. This movie is just another racist ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, which beat Spike Lee’s magnum opus, ‘Do The Right Thing’ for Best Picture many years ago, before America was sufficiently “woke.” This movie ‘Yesterday’ is so racist that the all-white audience that I saw it with in an the Upper West Side of Manhattan multiplex broke into applause with glee when the credits began to roll.
Of course, snooty critics panned ‘Yesterday’, but 89 percent gave” thumbs up” on the rating site Rotten Tomatoes, showing the American People are not with the cultural elite and the swamp politicians and support President Trump. The American People want another chance at a better Yesterday.
Oh, Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Those were some Great Days. Let’s bring those Great Days back when everything wasn’t so politicized. How about something like this: Let’s Make Britain Great Again. MAGA, everyone.
Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings. He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.
I saw the wonderful movie ‘Yesterday’ yesterday, but then realized how racist it was because there was nothing negative in it about President Trump.
How racist of this movie to extol the greatness of the Beatles, of English country life, of capitalism, and traditional values of love and honor. How racist! And how dare they ignore Donald Trump’s racism!
