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Black Actors Blast Civil Rights Groups Over 'Blaxploitation'
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| August 13/2002
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Posted on 08/13/2002 12:52:38 PM PDT by Hazzardgate
Some of the top stars of "blaxploitation" movies have condemned civil rights organizations for undermining a nascent black film thirty years ago and putting hundreds of black actors, directors and crew members out of work. In the documentary Baadasssss Cinema, debuting Wednesday night on the Independent Film channel, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, who starred in such films as Black Caesar, Bucktown, and Hell Up in Harlem, says angrily: "NAACP and CORE - they're the ones who created this terminology: black exploitation. That has to be clear, on the record. It came from them. It didn't come from the white press. ... Who was being exploited? All the black actors were getting paid. They had a job. They were going to work. The audience wasn't being exploited. They were getting to see things on their screen they'd longed for." Likewise Pam Grier (Coffy, Foxy Brown) recalls black critics saying "Oh, my god, we shouldn't show pimps to white America. ... They'll think we're all like this." The documentary ushers in a series of blaxploitation "tributes," on IFC, including Foxy Brown on Wednesday, Superfly on Thursday and Shaft's Big Score on Friday.
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To: mhking
Blaxploitation ping list?
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posted on
08/13/2002 2:04:09 PM PDT
by
Khepera
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Bump for Pam Grier pictures. Please.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Here's the only one I could find in which she's not topless:
To: Britton J Wingfield
To: Hazzardgate
To: oldvike
I always liked the Wayans family because everyone was fair game, and IMO, certain black icons, liberal or not, were especially fair game.
To: Hazzardgate
Do these actors realize that their whining is about 25 years too late?
To: ArneFufkin
I just knew you cared ;-)
To: rdb3
LOL!!!!!
Don't Tell Queen Bee !!!!!
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posted on
08/13/2002 6:43:11 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: Hazzardgate
The same groups did the same thing to the (excellent) black actors on Amos and Andy 20 years earlier.
To: cmsgop
"He think he's bad and ain't got no class! I'm gunn' rock this shotgun up his mutha*****' @ss!"
To: cmsgop
Way down in the jungle deep...
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posted on
08/14/2002 2:04:20 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Hazzardgate; mhking
Pam Grier. I've been in love with her since age 5!
;-)
Ducking my wife's houseshoe...
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posted on
08/14/2002 2:09:27 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Hazzardgate
This is the bottom line. Either you get entertained by black cinema, or you get entertained by the bull sh!t of the NAACP. The choice is a no brainer, but somehow the NAACP prevailed. Why? How?
To: rdb3
To: BushMeister
I thought topless was the fashion in New York?
To: EggsAckley
They want control of a mass of people to vote the way thay want.
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posted on
08/14/2002 6:07:27 AM PDT
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billva
To: rdb3
"Ax" is actually a West Indes pronounciation as is "skreet".
To: AppyPappy
I never heard anyone say "skreet" for "street" until I came South.
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posted on
08/14/2002 6:17:10 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: rdb3
You should hear Gullah.
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