I always qualified it by saying I'd give my take on blacks in cinema. It's a perspective that can surprise liberal whites who want to see themselves as part of the solution rather than the problem. Not one of these days. He laughs merrily, but with an edge of disbelief. But it still reflects the same conditioning.
Blacks are expendable.
You never made a black movie. I t is perhaps unsurprising that such a fiery and blunt-talking figure would be equally unsparing about the films of today. Van Peebles has achieved a kind of emeritus status in the modern cinema, where it is also considered a given that things have changed dramatically for the better. But Van Peebles is unwilling to offer a reassuring view of the contemporary situation, except in the most qualified of terms. And so desperately did they need it that they hired blacks.