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Ignorant Black Bitches, and Heartless Black Studs
November 21st, 2008
I watched the movie Claudine again this past weekend for the umpteenth time, and it’s still great every time.
The film stars Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones. It is funny, dramatic, heartfelt and socially relevant all at once.
Since I couldn’t find a video clip of this scene I audio recorded it.
Check out the exchange between Carrol and Jones’ characters on their first date:
What I always found particularly interesting about that clip is that that the stereotypes that they’re mocking are the same ones that persist today. That these notions of of Black wanton welfare queens, or Black men not taking care of their children are neither new nor generational.
What’s sad is that black entertainers do back flips to reinforce and even celebrate these stereotypes.
Anyway, this is really a great movie. I pretty much hate love stories, but can’t get enough of this film because is so real to the way life and relationship really are, as opposed to the dime store novel romantic fantasy stuff you get in the vast majority of films. Also the music is great and woven perfectly into the film; and the songs were written specifically to fit the dialog and themes of the movie.
The soundtrack was written and produced by Curtis Mayefield, and performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips
Make Yours A Happy Home
See the trailer, then order your copy:
Odd way to do a trailer, or maybe it wasn’t at the time.
They fixed that over dub on my copy of it, there’s not that delay between the person talking and their lips moving.
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