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Is Precious Ghetto Pathology Porn? Black Americans Debate
Critic Armond White wrote, "Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious." Responds the novelist Sapphire, "With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there." New York Times 11/21/09
Critic Armond White wrote, "Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious." Responds the novelist Sapphire, "With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there." New York Times 11/21/09
Posted November 22, 2009 09:52 AM
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