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| Post Movie Brainstorm |
My students are angry, they been 'Bamboozled'. They've been fooled to think that being Black was a negative thing, and now they don't know what to believe.
Spike Lee's movie 'Bamboozled' was a real eye opener. Basically the movie is about a television network that airs a modern day minstrel show, complete with black face and tap dancing to the delight of a hungry American audience. Its mirroring the Hip Hop industry where hungry young artists become minstrels for large entertainment and production companies and sell their souls for the sake of a dollar. Eventually their investment falls apart being underpinned by racism and exploitation. Does this same fate await the Hip Hop industry?
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| We've been fooled to think that Black is bad. |
The network Bamboozled all of the people involved with the production of the Minstrel show, and all of the people who watched it. They bought what 'CNS' was selling hook-line-and sinker. They began to exhibit a group think. One being guided by the media and their definition of what blackness is.
