It's clearly one of the best treatments of African-American family life. The other is a real worrier, an ant. The families that they come from make it quite clear why they're that way. I think Spike Lee's Crooklyn works the same turf in a very effective way. The fact that these kids are good basketball players involves them in a major force in American life.
Today there is only one industry in the country, and that's entertainment.
How these kids are threatened by it, turned inside out, how they are consumed, commodified. The kids are the true believers, and that's where the tension comes in. But on the other hand, I wanted it to happen for them, too, because I'm an American. And maybe one of them could become Michael Jordan. SUE COE , artist.