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Assata Hanns

This is the movie I’ve been requesting for quite some time!!! Thank you to the coolest group of pals ever! ❤️

Imari

Wow. Burning sands next?

Cia Thou

Yes! Now all we need is Stomp the Yard The Inkwell & Lean On Me and all my Cinepal-Jump black cinematic dreams will have come true 🙂

Syd

I commented this on the YouTube already but putting it here. For movies like this and others that’s not a Madea movie I think you should bring back reading the comments. It would be very interesting to see your thoughts on certain things after reading comments and things you might have picked up on afterwards just sitting with it for a while. It also helps us help you understand even just a little that you might be confused about. I think it’s a good idea.

JMK BlaQ-IfJesusNmalcomXhadAbabyIdMiraculouslyComeOutOfKeisha

About to warm up my dinner and 🎵"really get into it" ....LOVE when the Big 3 link up for a movie. Especially when its a predominantly black cast movie..Thank you for feeding the people what they want and creating a safe space for us to look reminisce, laugh, catch up on what we missed, commune & discuss and also educate people outside the community and show that our voices and representation matters and is recieved to those willing to engage and see us 😂🤌👏 yall are leading the charge and movement for others (non black) in the reactor spaces....cause dont think we dont see them following suit😏

Gabrielle Hawkins

We must have you three watch: - The Great Debaters - Fences

Julie

I also requested this movie for a long time. Jaby what Spike is also saying is Black people can have different of opinions and don’t have to kill each other to solve. Colorism is in a lot of communities. As I have been learning lately from a lot of different Asian people it is in their communities too. A lot of people were colonized.

Sal

Great reaction. Could you add: To Sleep with Anger to your list of recomediations

rickie woodson

welcome to the birth of WOKE. WAKE UP! not just a rallying call for the literal sleep but for the metaphysical sleeping of ignoring the programming that the society has put on so many

Julie

Something else I wanted to say. In my family we have people who are very dark to very light and everything in between. We love each other and respect each other. That’s what I was taught to love and respect each other. As for me , when I moved to California from Louisiana it still pisses me off when people think that one of my parents was White! No, I come from a Black man and a Black woman! That’s right, both my parents are black! I will say, most of the time it’s not Black people who think that.

Raul Grijalva

thank you needed this for BHM hopefully you continue with Spike. He Got Game, Get on the Bus, for sure

Gabss Davis

PLEASE START BACK READING THE COMMENTS: But....TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, As an HBCU student and just a black person, we dont be fighting like that. Lmaooo. The media depicts us like that but most of us just trying to make it home safe from other races and life in general mostly. Lol. I think yall are more so conditioned to expect fights because 9/10 films make it seem like thats all we do. Also, this movie wasnt so much as a concept, it reflects our actual real day to day lives. Especially back then and especially at an HBCU. WHILE IT WAS ALSO EXAGGERATED, it was very much so a reflection of the culture. The movie discussed alot of things that are very real within our community. He wasnt so much as trying to teach us a lesson or present us with all sides. He just wanted us to be more mindful and aware of how internalized racism/colorism has effects/affects our community. While also showing not only us but the world how beautiful we are. A sea of beautiful blackness. Black love, brotherhood, sisterhood, the good and the bad. The grace and the lessons learned. Where as 'Do The Right The Thing' unpacked how racism/prejudice towards us, effects/affects our community and the importance of community within your respective cultures while also learning to coexist. Spike Lee takes a realistic approach to his films. Especially his earlier ones. Thats why our community can relate to his work without any confusion. Lol. Spike's targeted audience is always the black audience so its understandable that someone outside of us would be confused with Spike sometimes. So the thing with Spike is, I dont think he ever cared to really appeal to another audience outside of us. Even if his films did crossover to a broader audience. Tyler Perry is more of a dramatization. Spike is more real life. Lol. That's why they don't get along lmaoooo

Gabss Davis

I went to Wiley College(the school the movie was based on)and was on the debate team. Lol.

sb

Yes this was 2 years before Vanilla Ice.

Carla Davis

This was NOT the birth of woke. That started back with Marcus Garvey.

rickie woodson

Thanks for the education. This was my first introduction of the term "wake up" to not mean from literal sleep.

CreativeCrusader

It is definitely in Asian communities. Apologies for the trauma dump, but I'm a Filipino and my mother considered me darker (compared to her) and used to make me use a "face wash" that was supposed to lighten my skin and she literally didn't have any optimism that I could do as well in life as my lighter skin family. 😒

No one Cares

Lean on Me is essential and needs to be watched ASAP! Morgan Freeman and some other familiar faces. :o)

No one Cares

Let me also just say THANK YOU for taking the time to watch this. I was young when this movie came out and didn’t understand most of the themes. As an adult, I realize how deeply layered it was. There is too much to unpack in a single post. Even the lovemaking scene between Julian and Jane has some things to unpack that I am just now realizing as a 49 year old (notably the fact that free black people are willfully branding themselves with fraternity symbols like they are slaves or animals…something that still happens to this day; and Jane’s worship of those symbols. The licking was not purely a sexual act…it underscores what happened to her towards the end of the movie). This movie also captured the magic of HBCU life…something A Different World failed at during Season 1.