...the “hood,” the “inner city,” South Central LA, Black neighborhoods. I imagined them as places of rampant deadly violence and little else. The humanity was sorely lacking from my internal images of these places. Then, along comes Boyz n the Hood and it challenged me,...
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...it changed me. It offered me an authentic, real and deeply human alternative to the racist, shallow image I’d been offered. Anyway, I can’t stop crying about John Singleton. What a terrible loss.
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