^^^^ Coincidently, the below was in the Michigan Citizen this week
Charles
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More Blaxploitation? -- 10/18/2009 Black Dynamite pokes fun at what is loved and loathed about the classic Blaxploitation films of the ‘70s. The movie’s tag is: “When ‘The Man’ murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.” Black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles wrote and produced what many consider the first Blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Badassss Song in 1971. Because of the film’s high box office gross, Hollywood answered with several films written, directed and produced by whites. Known for their low production values, exploitation of both women and men, these movies mostly gave the genre its bad name.