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A Soldier’s Story (w/ Jason Myles)
Movies vs. Capitalism
The Sergeant's Journey Through Black Cinema
I think what makes the movie hard to swallow today is that everything is just so overly racialized with kind of comic book characters even movies that were supposed to celebrate. I did a whole video essay called same as it ever was on kind of contemporary black cinema and the way we look at the black exploitation era as this short lived time but I'm like why does Wakanda not have guns or lasers they're still using spears? We need over simplistic narratives about good guys and bad guys that resemble wrestling, says Cornell West.
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