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Film This Week in Film: Good Hair
Posted by Lindy West on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Charles Mudede reviews Chris Rock's new documentary:
So black people would learn nothing new from this documentary. What about white people? Is it for them? Are they the ideal spectators? Not really. Why? Because what is it to them that blacks are burning their scalps and inhaling toxic fumes for the sole purpose of looking like their masters (their bosses, politicians, movie stars)? At best, a white person, one with a soft heart, might feel pity for blacks. It's nothing but sad that all of these poor people are paying through the nose to become what they are not and could never be—European. To the white person with a soft heart, this is only further proof of the damage that white power has done to the cultural and natural world.
Read the whole thing HERE.
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