Jesus Shannon Sharpe has 140,000 watching his interview with Mo'Nique

Shamelessly it will have to be :smh:

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I can give him a pass since he obviously did it to help his son who directed it.
satire requires a special touch and nuance becuz the thing youre trying to send up and poke fun at....if done sloppily can end up being the thing you're inadvertently promoting.

John Amos should have known better.
 
So you feel that The Watermelon Heist would qualify as the type of film they were creating satire about in this movie?

It’s the idea of minstrels were redefine to fit modern times. There is no need for blackface when there so many willing to conform. I see minstrel performers from the 18 and early 1900s as a way to survive when opportunities were insanely limited for black folks. But in modern times, it’s so much worse and inexcusable.

Bamboozled has context and Spike conveyed that masterfully. Watermelon Heist was offensive for no reason. And the fact it was directed and produced by black people but written by a white person is pretty much was Bamboolzed was saying, but more in your face about it.
 
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It’s the idea of minstrels were redefine to fit modern times. There is no need for blackface when there so many willing to conform. I see minstrel performers from the 18 and early 1900s as a way to survive when opportunities were insanely limited for black folks. But in modern times, it’s so much worse and inexcusable.

Bamboozled has context and Spike conveyed that masterfully. Watermelon Heist was offensive for no reason. And the fact it was directed and produced by black people but written by a white person is pretty much was Bamboolzed was saying, but more in your face about it.

Agreed, and well said.
 
It’s the idea of minstrels were redefine to fit modern times. There is no need for blackface when there so many willing to conform. I see minstrel performers from the 18 and early 1900s as a way to survive when opportunities were insanely limited for black folks. But in modern times, it’s so much worse and inexcusable.

Bamboozled has context and Spike conveyed that masterfully. Watermelon Heist was offensive for no reason. And the fact it was directed and produced by black people but written by a white person is pretty much was Bamboolzed was saying, but more in your face about it.
u sum it up perfectly
one movie was message
and the other was a wtf?
the funny thing the movie wasnt even that old
 
u sum it up perfectly
one movie was message
and the other was a wtf?
the funny thing the movie wasnt even that old

Right. That makes it worse.

At some point, we lost some knowledge of the history of black people in entertainment. We’ve become so accepting of shit we should be condemning, and now it’s out of control. Folks don’t see anything wrong with being modern day minstrels.
 
:lol:

The collection is insane. I got Leprechaun in the Hood 1 and 2 on Blu-ray.

I even heat pressed a t-shirt of the first movie and wore it to class to teach in. Students were like “what is that?” And I’m like “Leprechaun in the Hood.”

Me wearing a t shirt of Watermelon Heist to teach in sounds on par of my behavior.
Hold on there was a leprechaun in the hood 2? Lmaoooo
 
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