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Originally posted by candygirl

I might get tarred or stoned for this but I feel that we as AA people can get a little too defensive and and tad bit sensitive when it comes to issues concerning us. I know its important to search for deeper meanings and not take everything at face value but, they were just jokes. It was a light hearted, funny movie. Nothing more nothing less.

That's just my humble and honest opinion.

WE CANNOT HAVE OUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO!

1. It's amazing how we as African American have a fit when our movies don't do well at the box office, yet when one does it is riddled with controversy....Why is that?

2. We seem to "never mind" and even embrace movies which depict us as thugs, crack-heads, pimps, drug dealers and other "unfavorable" characters (i.e. New Jack City, Menace to Society, Friday, Baby Boy etc...) Where was Jesse Jackson & his crew when young African Americans flocked to these movies?

I just don't get it. I saw Barbershop, I thought the movie was OK, however it was refreshing to see an African American movie with NO CRACK-HEADS AND WHERE NO ONE HAD THEIR BRAINS BLOWN OUT!