That's not necessarily a bad thing. But most all are loving Bamboozled 's dazzling climactic coda, on a videotape that Sloan prepares to teach Pierre about the legacy to which he is contributing, so lethally. I'm all for appreciating the work. But that doesn't mean you have to ignore today's realities. The point is that Andre Braugher and Spike Lee and Denzel and Kasi Lemmons get work despite the shameful legacy of racism, not because it's over and done with.
Stereotypical images persist, in different, insidious, and dangerous forms.
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