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I haven't seen the movie yet. But I plan to see it this week. But in thinking about Rev. Jesse Jackson and his allegations of "character assassination" by this movie's producers, I graciously turn my head to him and call him the ULTIMATE hypocrit. I say this because it's MORE than obvious that Rev. Jackson assassinated his OWN character when we found out about his infidelity AND love-child. Who is he blaming for THAT? Why haven't we seen him make such a big fuss about that? How was he uplifting the African-American community by doing that? How does he JUSTIFY that? Why haven't there been any PROTESTS or BOYCOTTS about his remaining a reverand and leader of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition?
I also agree that, to MANY, jokes are oh so funny UNTIL they are the subject. We try to be sooooo INTELLECTUAL and read into some things more than is needed or necessary. It just baffles me to think that out of all of the movies that have been made and all of the issues that have been brought out in movies, Rev. Jackson all-of-a-sudden decides that he wants to protest, boycott, or whatever. It makes me wonder if he's just using this film as an avenue to REDEEM himself.
I'll end my post by saying this. Rev. Jackson stated that the film's producers "knew that they were wrong", they "did the right thing by apologizing", and that they "should take it a step further" and correct their wrong by taking certain scenes out of their movie. In other words, they should ERASE their "mistake". But MY question is, CAN HE ERASE HIS??? I'm willing to bet that if you talk with the good Rev. that he would say that his illigitimate child is NOT a mistake and he's going to continue to support and love her no matter what anyone says or does. And I don't think that Barbershop's producers should change anything about their film. So, in essence, I don't think that the Reverand should be criticizing or placing judgement on a mere comedy film when HIS situation is WAY deeper.
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