eddie murphy
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The School for Magical Negroes
Hello, people of color! Are you tired of bearing the burden of walking around as the scary, dark-skinned demon who makes white women clutch their purses in Wal-Mart parking lots and clinch their anuses in elevators? Have you grown weary of candidates for president painting you as a Muslim bogeyman who needs to be expelled…
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Mr. Church: Just Another Film About a Black Man Being a White Woman’s Servant
White Hollywood is nothing if not a microcosm of white America, a place where shucking and jiving, bucking and jumping, “Yes, suh; no, ma’am” Negroes are more readily accepted than their revolutionary counterparts. This country has a fetish with subservient black men that translates into adoration on-screen. It makes perfect sense to me, then, that…
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“Harlem Nights” and Other Negro Viewing Requirements
I watched Harlem Nights for the first time last weekend. It was outlandishly Blackety Black Black. Just how I like my men. I loved it. But that didn’t matter. Apparently, making it to 29 without having seen Redd Foxx’s last big screen appearance was a crime against Blackness, because far too many people responded to…