From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: MIM Review: "South Central"
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:28:41 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.african.american

As quoted from <o3mBwB4w165w@nyxfer.uucp> by mim@nyxfer.UUCP:

>                          "South Central,"
>                     Directed by Steve Anderson
> 
> Revolutionaries are always skeptical when Hollywood claims to
> solve the problems of the Black nation. Even when the filmmaker is
> Black, funding and guidance (ideological enforcement) come
> directly from the capitalist mass media.

Obviously it's better to make films totally controlled by a White controlled
state mass media....

> The timing of the anti-gang message of South Central is obvious.

Do you think that the occurance of massive riots with heavy gang involvement
has anything to do with it...?

> Why does Hollywood speak out against gangs just after the Los
> Angeles uprising has fueled an unprecedented gang truce in that
> city? This truce has moved the Bloods and Crips away from killing
> each other and toward focusing their organized power against the
> police and the white nation. Police figures show that gang-related
> homicides in South L.A. dropped 88% in the month after the
> rebellion.(1)
> 
"White nation"?  Is Bob Avakian part of the "White nation", or have I been
mistaken all along and he's just one of the Brothers....?

> One good moment is where a leader of the fledgling Deuce gang
> tells his followers they must organize into a powerful force to
> retake control of their neighborhood from parasitic forces such as
> drug dealers from outside of their community. It doesn't matter if
> the cops throw them in jail, because then they'll just build the
> Deuce organization behind bars, too. He plans to finance this new
> force by taking over the drug-selling in their neighborhood once
> they kick out the outside dealers.
> 
Ah yes, you child may die of a drug overdose or your daughter may be financing
a drug habit by kneeling in alleys, but hey, at the money's staying in the
community, right?

> The big secret of the movie is this: to bring about change, the
> only thing you have to change is your attitude; then things will
> magically start working for you. But to have any chance of
> reaching angry youth with this accommodationist message, it had to
> be dressed up with a little "pro-Blackness." So now they say that
> as long as you know a few quotes from Garvey and King, then its OK
> to accommodate yourself to the white supremacist system.

White capitalist supremacist, White maoist supremacist, what's the difference?

The REAL outside exploiters are a small group of White led spoiled children
living off of daddy's money, playing at revolutionary, while taking advantage
of the poor and the ignorant.  People who have lived in Chicago know that 
you've tried to divert people in the projects from education and drug 
treatment so that you can bullshit them about the "coming nuclear war" and how
they need to organize to support YOU and not themselves.

The only difference between you and Jimmy Swaggart is that he's FUNNY.  You're 
just pathetic.

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