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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.
i really like this movie cuz it taught me a leeson. but i realy hate it cuz i dnt like how the sold out for money. thats how they gettin controlled. and i bet they know it but just dont care cuz the getting somthing in return. plus its like we don't like white people see us but we make it ok for them to see like that and making it ok for them to treat us and say things that we say because we making it seem ok. when it aint. -Catherine V.
ReplyDeleteLack of knowing who we are as lead us to being bamboozled by people who have being controlling us but this video was a eye opener for me to change the way I c things and dnt want to be controlled r being bamboozled by nobody .thank you mr Watkins
ReplyDeleteAnd also not being educated , poverty ,want fast money can lead us to be bamboozled too
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