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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...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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