The "good" blacks are lite-white

Then howcome that one troubled inner-city youth is so hood and disrespectful in the first season of that one show, while his cousin Carlton is such a preppy, polished prude?





I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

Was The movie Class Act problematic?

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/was-the-movie-class-act-problematic.1891975/

In this coming of age 90's classic we see the famous Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin (known for their titular roles as Kid N Play in cult classic house party series ) team up once more to give us a non-stop thrill ride as the two switch roles for a 'fish out of water' epic.

while the movie went on to gain critical acclaim and become a renown cult classic, upon revisiting it, i couldn't help but think...Is this problematic? Short answer? yes.

The story involves Reids character (duncan) switching places with Martins (blade). Reid being a A+ successful but socially introverted student manages to somehow get his permanent record mixed up with bad boy and and soon to be highschool drop out blade.

here's the issue.

duncan is very lightskin.

the girl blade ends up falling for is pretty lightskin as well. not as lightskin as duncan but lightskin ENOUGH.

on the opposite end we have BLADE BROWN, who couldn't be anymore darkskin!

we also have Damita, who couldn't be any more fine, and also darkskin!

Now, riddle me this! Why is it that both light skinned characters are not only depicted as being well off children, from two parent homes but also are more intelligent and successful?

why is the dark skinned lead, an ex convict and sociopath? Why is the dark skinned female an obvious sex kitten and used only to awaken the sexuality of the lightskinned character? and why is the lightskinned FEMALE character only used to educate and straighten out our dark skin protagonist?

by the end of the movie they both prevail as it ends with a rather raunchy scene that suggest, the light skins have been properly turnt out and the dark skins will graduate highschool and stay out of jail.