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Old 11-10-2004, 11:07 AM
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Originally posted by Lovely_gurl

This movie, if reversed, would NEVER be viewed with humor...and you can call it "double standard" if you like....but the "double standard" is because there is nothing negative or inherently threatening to "whiteface"....not in the way that a white guy painted up in "blackface" evokes hurt, anger, resentment, and conjurs deep wounded memories of a horrible, fearful time in our nation for generations of an entire race...
What about "Soul Man" with C. Thomas Howell?

That was damned funny.