I didn't understand the ending, wake up from what? Wasn't a fan of the words thrown out like Jig**oo neither was a fan of the insults about hair textures, skin tones, etc...Also, it looked like Julian and Dap were about to kiss at the end, I thought they were about to reveal a gay romance.
shareThings were getting out of hand on the campus. Dap goes out and he tells everyone to wake up to what is going on. They were fighting each other when they should have been working together to find common ground. Julian realizes this and makes amends with Dap. That's basically what the call to "wake up" was. Start taking notice at what is around us rather than getting caught up with cliques and rivalries.
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Makes sense - thanks!
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Dap seemed pretty pretty unchanging throughout the film
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Things were getting out of hand on the campus. Dap goes out and he tells everyone to wake up to what is going on. They were fighting each other when they should have been working together to find common ground. Julian realizes this and makes amends with Dap. That's basically what the call to "wake up" was. Start taking notice at what is around us rather than getting caught up with cliques and rivalries.
Things were getting out of hand on the campus. Dap goes out and he tells everyone to wake up to what is going on. They were fighting each other when they should have been working together to find common ground. Julian realizes this and makes amends with Dap. That's basically what the call to "wake up" was. Start taking notice at what is around us rather than getting caught up with cliques and rivalries.
Things were getting out of hand on the campus. Dap goes out and he tells everyone to wake up to what is going on. They were fighting each other when they should have been working together to find common ground. Julian realizes this and makes amends with Dap. That's basically what the call to "wake up" was. Start taking notice at what is around us rather than getting caught up with cliques and rivalries.
Things were getting out of hand on the campus. Dap goes out and he tells everyone to wake up to what is going on. They were fighting each other when they should have been working together to find common ground. Julian realizes this and makes amends with Dap. That's basically what the call to "wake up" was. Start taking notice at what is around us rather than getting caught up with cliques and rivalries.
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I didn't understand the ending, wake up from what? Wasn't a fan of the words thrown out like Jig**oo neither was a fan of the insults about hair textures, skin tones, etc...Also, it looked like Julian and Dap were about to kiss at the end, I thought they were about to reveal a gay romance.
What if we stopped feuding over stupid crap and just met face to face, eye to eye, and got along?
shareI didn't understand the ending, wake up from what? Wasn't a fan of the words thrown out like Jig**oo neither was a fan of the insults about hair textures, skin tones, etc..
That's probably because you aren't old enough to recall what was going in the black community during the this time period.
In the final scene where Dap tells everyone on campus, as well as the black movie audience, to "wake up," Spike Lee was trying to convey to all black people that they needed to get beyond their own inherent racism.
During the 80s, black people in this country were very misguided. The mentality at that time was that the less black you looked, the more appealing and attractive you were. Many black guys were processing their hair with Geri curls and many females were wearing contacts to change their eye color and weaves to camouflage their natural hair (the latter unfortunately still persists today). And as evidenced by the "Jig/Wannabe" scene, many light-skinned blacks looked down on dark-skinned black people, believing they were status symbols because they could fit the white version of beauty.
I think Spike was trying to convey the message that black people needed to get away from such superficiality, because it only divided the race. I noticed that attitudes began to change among African Americans after they viewed this movie, so I guess he was successful in this endeavor.
Thanks... I didn't know how bad it was during the 80s, although the superficiality still exists today to a certain degree, but perhaps not as bad as before.
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