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Episode 1390 - Elvis Mitchell

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Gordon Parks and Van Peebles: The Shifters of the Paradigm

In 1968, you've got In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on one hand. And Night of Living Dead on the other. Two studio films to an independent film that was so underestimated, they didn't even bother to copyright it. These between these three movies, there's so much box office generated. Shouldn't that be the full crew that makes you go, let's push the racism out of the way and start to integrate? That still doesn't happen. It still becomes about people seizing opportunity. I just are saying no to it because it's ridiculous. It's not a hard problem to solve.

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