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[thies.livejournal.com]

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[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

Funny

[spoon-o-doom.livejournal.com]

Poor taste.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[funnygurusdca.livejournal.com]

The dry cleaners just called - Your sheets & hoods are ready.

[thies.livejournal.com]

aaah, assumptions...

[saint-monkey.livejournal.com]

A real film, apparantly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072725/

Netflix here I come.

Notice that former Raider Fred Williamson stars AND penned it.

How could this have been PG? (It certainly wasn't PC.)

[thies.livejournal.com]

if you search on netflix, the dvd release had the nigger omitted in the title

[caerfrli.livejournal.com]

looks vaguely like Blazing Saddles

[thies.livejournal.com]

why?

[thies.livejournal.com]

difficult to have a cartoon with no racism when the topic is racism. I'd like to see one which pulls that off.

[thies.livejournal.com]

the movie got pretty good reviews actually

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Williamson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Nigger

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

Writing in 2006, film critic Ryan Diduck described the marketing of Boss Nigger and other blaxploitation films to Black audiences as an example of "empowerment through an overturned representation of long-established agency limitations for black men." Diduck specifically cited the trailer for Boss Nigger for the manner in which it elicits feelings of Black superiority and white hysteria and encourages the audience to identify with the outsider hero who finds himself at odds with the rules of white America.

White hysteria? Sounds like the right-wing's reaction to Barack Obama. I think this Photoshopped parody could be interpreted without too much strain as a comment on the "white hysterical" reaction to Obama in general and the Gates incident in particular.

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

You don't like unpleasant things, do you? Which is too bad because ignoring the situations jostling commentary brings to light only furthers the problem. Not talking about it or addressing the unsettling issues of the day does nothing to absolve the problems present. Which is no good garbage for anyone involved.

I sound the alarm.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

I don't think a giant NIGGER running across my screen is the best way to communicate an idea

RACIST!!!!

[i.livejournal.com]

it's funny because of all the people who didn't get it.

[thies.livejournal.com]

your racist

[i.livejournal.com]

my racist what?

[thies.livejournal.com]

pink pony?

[metamadman.livejournal.com]

I have one of those.

I can't believe nobody's posted the trailer yet.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]