White folks on TikTok are at it again.
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You know what movie REALLY holds up? The cult classic horror thriller Candyman. What a picture!
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Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”
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John Travolta slathers on allegorical blackface to play a poor white man at the end of his rope in the muddled racial allegory White Man’s Burden, which imagines an alternate universe where the racial dynamic of our country has been reversed, with African-Americans in power and poor white folks the primary victim of racism.
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A charismatic stranger played by John Travolta turns a bunch of Southern white kids onto the life-affirming, liberating power of black music in Shout, a retro tribute to black music and black culture with no actual black characters.
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Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.
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One of you generous weirdoes paid me to revisit Julien Temple’s fascinatingly muddled 1986 musical flop Absolute Beginners, an exceedingly white, straight look at racial tensions and the exhilarating freedoms of life in late 1950s London.
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For the love of God, why does anyone think they can get away with doing blackface in 2019?
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From the great Spike Lee comes an astonishingly awful, incoherent treatise on race, sex, greed and capitalism.
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