I was an ignorant white kid living in the San Fernando Valley when Boyz n the Hood came out. The local TV news was always on in my house, and LA news is (or at least was) peak “If it bleeds, it leads” television. So like a lot of white people, I internalized a blind fear of...
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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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