We have come a long way with BLM and racism issues but was not this title deemed racists even back than ? Imagine the struggles Mr Fred Williamson must have faced…
shareDo you have any documentation that indicates the AA community was outraged at the time?
Or is this another case of a white person telling AAs what they should think (another form of oppression) 50 years after the fact?
The second question is rhetorical, so don't waste our time with a response.
guess you havent seen blazing saddles.
shareI doubt it
shareNot much different than making a movie with a gay sheriff and calling it, "Boss Faggot."
This would not necessarily be coming from a place of homophobia.
Likewise, the title, "Boss Nigger" does not necessarily have to be coming from a place of racism. To me, the titles are intended to be tongue-in-cheek humor. But obviously, you could have some racist asshole who loves screaming the title of the movie over and over while claiming it's not wrong to say the title of a movie.
Some say blaxploitation movies were empowering, others say they were racist.
To me, neither opinion is really wrong or right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation
People weren't uptight, fragile, and childish about racial issues back then. This movie came out 35 years before the gay Communists took over Hollywood and ruined everything.
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