Black Actors Blast Civil Rights Groups Over 'Blaxploitation'

IMDB.com ^ | August 13/2002 | IMDB staff

[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.

[discostu]

Letterman used to say "ax" instead of "ask" but he did it on purpose (always added extra emphasis, usually did this during the mail segment).

[rdb3]

There would have been a "polite" response if the question, no, demand being responded to were "polite."

It wasn't.

Give as good as I get. Unapologetic, at that.

[FreedomPoster]

I've been in love with her since age 5!

Can you tell us two reasons why?

[reg45]

Can you tell us two reasons why?

Yes!
1. Left
2. Right

[rdb3]

Can you tell us two reasons why?

#1. She's fine!

#2. She's really fine!

Any more questions?

[mhking]

Can you tell us two reasons why?

Yes.

She's Pam Grier!

She was fine then, she's fine now!

'Nuff said...

[rdb3]

^5!

;-)

You got that right. And she still looks good.

[reg45]

And she still looks good.

Yes, she has aged well. IMDB says that she was born 26-May-1949. That would make her 53 years old. I've seen women half her age who don't look half as good.

[rdb3]

53? Now that's what I call a fine wine.

Ducking my wife's houseshoe once again.

[Hazzardgate]

BUMPITY BUMP

...for the release of the JACKIE BROWN SPECIAL EDITION DVD, surly to be a treasure trove of information and all round goodness.

"Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV"