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Hobbes darling, of all the qualities I could think of attributing to you, "sucker for Blacksploitation" is not one I would have ever picked.
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Hobbes, this isn't blacksploitation. It's a story about a bunch of kids. It looks kind of sweet, and closer to Lean on Me than Superfly or Dolemite.
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Hobbes, I have never once in my entire life heard you refer to anyone, even Annie, as "baby". Words I have never heard uttered. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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There is something subtle and beautiful about the roller skate work. I'm talking about the scenes on the sidewalk and the street, not in the rink. There is a smoothness and style.
I'm a sucker for 1970s black culture. We were figuring ourselves out, getting the man's foot out of our ass, all of the big leaders had already been shot and white people were feeling guilty, for cause. The country's culture wasn't controlled by the market. The hair was big, the clothes were stylish, and people were proud to be black, and the art was interesting. Something happened in the eighties. Maybe America got more conservative and crowded us out, I don't know, but I love the black seventies aesthetic. Then again, I say that I'm Earth, Wind and Fire black, not Jay-Z black.
quote:There is something subtle and beautiful about the roller skate work. I'm talking about the scenes on the sidewalk and the street, not in the rink. There is a smoothness and style.
Despite my kidding I really do think this looks fun, for that exact reason. Well and the rink...
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Quick question, what's up with the heart on the chick's butt? Why do some girls think that all we care about is their butt? Sure it's a nice part, but there's a lot more to women than that.
Though the movie does look pretty good. I'm a big fan of the head phones
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Hey Hobbes, what's the deal? Are these funny to you or something? I'm totally confused as to why you keep posting them.
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Back in the day I thought Starsky and Hutch's Huggy Bear and Baretta's Rooster were amusing characters. I now think that it was wrong.
The black guys at my high school in the 70s put too much effort into emulating those street-smart pimp-types. Since the seventies we've had a wave of Michael Jackson dancing machines, Eddie Murphy clown-types, and bling bling rappers.
Ya know, I think it has more to do with young people trying to figure themselves out than it has to do with blacks collectively trying to figure themselves out. Asians, Hispanics, and whites all go through the same thing growing up. The media stereotypes don't do much to help.
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