![]() To me racism in the modern world wasn't a thing unless you were a stereotypical redneck, which again was I thought, a stereotype and not indicative of a larger issue. So It went back to something I didn't think about again. In the early 90's when the Rodney King stuff happened I started to become more aware, I wasn't really into rap at all, I was a grunge kid but once the riot shit blew over it went away from the news I suppose the hip hop culture and those who were into it were more in touch and honestly I think my view of the lack of racism made rap difficult to relate to. I'm Canadian, where I grew up my friends were east indian, some of them were black from Haiti (french as a second language was helpful for them as immigrants) and so forth, racism wasn't something I was really aware of. (Geez.)Īnd Eddie Griffin's character is more anachronistic than parody played straight, but I can see why you'd be wary. I recognize it as a 'the only thing left to do is laugh about this because it's so sad" black perspective. I mean there's a scene where he's in a high end dept store talking to Sister Girl, who was a fabulous character in her own right, and it's a bit dated because of the anti-interracial angle, but he's in his ultra safe for white people urban professional look (tm) AND YET when he gets slightly mad at Sister Girl the intercom instantly blares "Attention: angry black man in Khakis." That's not comedy directed at white people to laugh at, I mean come on. It's not a one note visual gag comedy at all and it wasn't made for white people, or even by white people, but it's not so dense (complicated? private?) that only black people can watch it. ![]() ![]() It goes after well-meaning ignorant white people, racists, and respectability politics. But I'm saying and the video is saying that the movie goes way, wayy deeper than a montage of "homages" to blaxploitation movies.
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