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Forty years ago this month, Melvin Van Peebles’ celluloid classic, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, shook up the world of cinema, much as a brash young pugilist originally known as Cassius Clay had done in the boxing ring some seven years earlier. Van Peebles’ independently produced film merged European modernism and the avant-garde with the urgent demands of black power to create a cinematic document that echoed sentiments similar to those being articulated in the urban streets of 1970s America.

Though opening in only two theaters at the outset — one in Detroit and one in Atlanta — Sweetback went on to gross large sums of money compared with the initial cost of production, thus allowing Van Peebles to, among other things, reimburse Bill Cosby, who had graciously given the aspiring auteur a loan so that he could complete his ambitious film.

With no such thing as a marketing budget, Van Peebles released the film’s Earth, Wind Fire sound track before the film, and he would rely on the oral tradition, using strong word-of-mouth support, to help promote Sweetback to eager urban audiences. When the dust cleared, the film’s success made Hollywood pay attention to the existence of an untapped audience. This set in motion a process that would give birth to a genre eventually referred to as “blaxploitation” going forward.

The critical reaction to Sweetback was varied. Lerone Bennett, executive editor of Ebony magazine, penned an article entitled “Emancipation Orgasm: Sweetback in Wonderland” that criticized the film for romanticizing ghetto life, for opening with the scene described as the “rape of a child by a 40-year-old prostitute” and for assuming that sexual prowess was synonymous with revolutionary actions. According to Bennett, “f—ing will not set you free.”

Yet Huey P. Newton, head of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, wrote his own lengthy essay about the film in the Panthers’ newspaper. Arguing that Sweetback was a cultural reflection of the same types of political ideas that the Panthers championed, he went on to suggest that the movie was the “first truly revolutionary black film.” Sweetback would become required viewing for members of the Black Panther Party.

The marked differences of opinion about this film would initiate an ongoing cultural debate, often centered around positive and negative media images and black representation in general. This same debate, somewhat modified, lingers to this day in relation to hip-hop culture.

He’s a Complicated Man

In July 1971, MGM released Shaft, and it was as though the independent spirit of Sweetback had now quickly spawned a more mainstream successor. Unlike Sweetback, which posited its hero (played by Van Peebles) as “the bad-ass nigger coming back to get some dues,” Shaft featured Richard Roundtree as “the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks.”

In each case, the sexual prowess and protagonist’s overall swag signaled the emergence of a new kind of black character, one who specialized in kickin’ ass and takin’ names! John Shaft, however, was equally at ease among cops and convicts, gangsters and revolutionaries. He was, after all, “the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about.”

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Article source: http://www.theroot.com/views/blaxploitation-s-baadasssss-history

When you envisioned the Smurfs movie tie-in games, you might not have pictured a dance floor beneath the diminutive blue folk. Ubisoft has received a classification for Smurfs Dance Party from the Australian Classification Review Board, giving a clear indication of the direction that at least one of the games will take. Smurfs Dance Party also appears as a Wii title on game rental service GameFly, which only lists items as they are submitted by publishers.

If history is any indication, Smurfs Dance Party will be modeled after Ubisoft’s mega-successful Just Dance series. It was recently announced that Just Dance spin-off Michael Jackson: The Experience reached 3 million sales globally. Ubisoft has yet to depart from the Just Dance formula with its rhythm titles, so we expect to gyrate and smurf along with the Smurfs later this year.

[Note: The image above is not a real screenshot, no matter how much you want it to be.]

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Article source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/21/smurfs-dance-party-invites-you-to-smurf-that-booty/

BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet: that as governor of Massachusetts he once tried to help poor, uninsured sick people.

Romney, who signed the state’s 2006 health care reform act, has said he “deeply regrets” giving people in poor physical and mental health the opportunity to seek medical attention, admitting that helping very sick people get better remains a dark cloud hovering over his political career, and his biggest obstacle to becoming president of the United States of America.

“Every day I am haunted by the fact that I gave impoverished Massachusetts citizens a chance to receive health care,” Romney told reporters Wednesday, adding that he feels ashamed whenever he looks back at how he forged bipartisan support to help uninsured Americans afford medicine to cure their illnesses. “I’m only human, and I’ve made mistakes. None bigger, of course, than helping cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatments and making sure that those suffering from pediatric AIDS could obtain medications, but that’s my cross to bear.”

“My hope is that Republican voters will one day forgive me for making it easier for sick people—especially low-income sick people—to go to the hospital and see a doctor,” Romney added. “It was wrong, and I’m sorry.”

According to Romney, if he could do things over again, he would do everything he could to make certain that uninsured individuals got sicker and sicker until they died. Promising his days of trying to provide medical coverage to the gravely ill are behind him, Romney said that if elected president, he would never even think about increasing anyone’s quality of life or trying to lower the infant mortality rate.

In addition, Romney repeatedly apologized for wanting to help people suffering from diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and anemia.

“I don’t know what got into me back then,” Romney said. “Wanting to make sure people were able to have health insurance if they left their job. Providing a federally funded website so individuals could compare the costs of insurance providers. Making certain that somebody who earns less than 150 percent of the poverty level can receive the same health care coverage as me or any government official. All I can say is that I was young and immature, and I am not that person anymore.”

“The only solace I can take is in the hope that some of the folks I helped were terminally ill patients who eventually withered away and died,” Romney added.

Though Romney has apologized profusely, Beltway insiders said he would need to distance himself from his I-tried-to-help-sickpeople image. Sources noted that Romney’s current promise to take away health care from anyone who can’t afford it is a step in the right direction, but might not be enough.

“The major strike against Mitt Romney is that he not only tried to help people get medical care, he actually did help people get medical care,” conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg said. “No other Republican in the field has that type of baggage. And in the end, in order to defeat President Obama, the GOP needs someone who has a track record of never wanting to help sick people.”

Thus far, Romney is polling strongly in early primary states like New Hampshire and Iowa, but Republican strategists and voters agree that even in a general election, his sordid past would continue to dog him.

“I don’t think I can vote for someone like that,” Pennsylvania Republican Eric Tolbert said. “He says he’s sorry, but how do I know that’s the real Mitt Romney? What happens if he gets elected and tries to help sick people again?”

“I like Michele Bachmann now,” Tolbert added. “Because what this country needs is a president who doesn’t give a (CENSORED) about helping people.”

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That’s right, there is some real crap on the Internet.  In fact, our pages have been listed in people’s “Worst of the Web” lists.  (I cannot imagine why!)  Our first Worst of the Web entry is the site titled WrestleCrap.com.  This site relives the crappiest moments in wrestling history!  That’s right, if you hated it the first time, then they give you the opportunity to relive it again and again!

A previous WrestleCrap award winner includes Fred Ottman in a Stromtrooper hat, busting through a wall and falling on his face as the Shockmaster.  (Special thanks to Dusty Rhodes and Arn Anderson for that one)  It also includes the seven foot Ron Reis dressed as a mummy, calling himself the Yeti, and dry humping Hulk Hogan at a WCW Halloween event.  That was even worse than The Giant falling off the roof of Cobo Hall and wrestling a match later in the night!

For more WrestleCrap, visit www.WrestleCrap.com.

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The Afro-Squad is proud to bring you a new series of articles.   From now until the end of May we will be bringing you Soul Food Sundays.  We’ll tell you about pickled pigs feet, chitterlings, pot liquor, liver mush, and even give you an amazing Southern fried chicken recipe.

We feel it is our duty to teach the general public about all the great taste and nutritional value that comes from things like Hogs Balls and Pig (CENSORED), so please check back every Sunday to read the latest Soul Food Delight!

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This is a classic Kung Fu video where Bruce Lee takes on this 70′s group called the Afro-Squad. It is a must watch for die-hard Afro-Squad and Bruce Lee fans.

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AP File PhotoTween popster Miley Cyrus shows off her pole dancing acumen.Gibraltar police ticketed what appeared to be a mobile strip club/party bus – dubbed the “Booty Lounge” – this Sunday.

April 18, News-Herald: [Lt. Gerard] LaPointe said the bus appeared to be converted to what looked like a mobile gentleman’s club. It had a bar, ample seating and two dance poles inside.

Police said three women and a man were traveling on the bus with the driver.

It wasn’t the bus’ in-vehicle activities that bothered the cop as much as its license plate, which was registered to another vehicle. Also the driver had a suspended license. And no insurance.

Worst. Stripper bus. Ever.

This isn’t the first…ahem…mobile adult entertainment venue to cause controversy on metro Detroit roads. At the Woodward Dream Cruise two years ago, an outfit known as “Mobile Dreams” ran afoul of the Royal Oak police when their on board dancers were a tad indiscreet in their performances.

Aug. 20, 2009, MLive: During the Woodward Dream Cruise, when car lovers convene to watch classic cars and other unique vehicles cruise down Woodward Avenue, an entertainment company rolled out a transparent cube truck featuring two dancers shimmying up and down poles inside.

“They were upside down with their legs spread facing the crowd,” Sgt. Robert Reilly told the Royal Oak Daily Tribune. One of the dancers accidentally exposed a breast and could face an indecent exposure charge.

Whatever the Mobile Dreams dancers did or did not do, at least – unlike the Booty Lounge – their driver had a valid license.

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Dolemite is a 1975 blaxploitation feature film, and is also the name of its principal character, played by Rudy Ray Moore, who co-wrote the film and its soundtrack. Moore, who started his career as a stand-up comedian in the late 1960s, heard around that time a rhymed toast by a local homeless man about an urban hero named Dolemite, and decided to adopt the persona of Dolemite as an alter-ego in his act.

He included the character on his 1970 debut album, Eat Out More Often, which reached the top 25 on the Billboard charts. He released several more comedy albums using this persona. In 1975, Moore decided to create a film about Dolemite, using many of his friends and fellow comedians as cast and crew.^[1] The film was directed by D’Urville Martin, who appears as the villain Willie Green.

Cast

• Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore): the protagonist of the movie. Dolemite is seen jailed in the beginning of the movie, followed by a flashback of detectives examining the trunk of his car in which stolen fur coats and drugs were found. It is obvious Dolemite was framed, but he spends time in jail nevertheless. Dolemite is later pardoned and released. Throughout the movie, as Dolemite attempts to rekindle his reputation on the streets and reclaim his pride and joy (the club referred to as “The Total Experience”) from Willie Green, he is constantly having run-ins with a pair of detectives, Mitchell and White, who framed Dolemite before (as seen in the flashback), and who are hell-bent on getting Dolemite back into the slammer.

• Queen Bee (Lady Reed): runs a whorehouse that references Dolemite as the part time owner on several occasions throughout the movie. Queen Bee is the only woman in Dolemite’s household who Dolemite speaks to as an equal, rather than a pimp. While Queen Bee is very emotional about having Dolemite return home after time in jail, no reference of an intimate relationship is ever made during the film.

• Willie Green (D’Urville Martin): the antagonist. Willie Green is seen in the initial flashback as having a leading part in the framing of Dolemite. Willie Green takes over Dolemite’s club “The Total Experience” while Dolemite is serving hard time. Willie Green and the city’s mayor, Mayor Daley, have a peculiar partnership. The mayor will abuse his office in helping Willie Green avoid problems with the law, while Willie Green promises black votes for the mayor’s upcoming re-election.

• Reverend Gibbs (West Gale): a black separatist with many connections, the Reverend leads a radical church in the “Fourth Ward.” He tips off Dolemite regarding who set him up two years prior, as well as who is supplying drugs to the community.

• Mitchell (John Kerry): a corrupt detective who – under the direction of Mayor Daley and Willie Green – frames Dolemite and sends him to prison. When Dolemite is released, he and his partner White attempt to frame him again.

• Blakely (Jerry Jones): an FBI man who lurks in the shadows, and knows why Dolemite is out on the street. When the time comes, Blakely apprehends the corrupt detectives Mitchell and White and the corrupt Mayor.

• Creeper (Vainus Rackstraw): better known as the Hamburger Pimp, he is recognized by his dingy “white-T”, characteristic pimp stroll (as he pulls up his pants), and constant begging for spare change and free food.

Follow-ups

A sequel, The Human Tornado, was released in 1976.

In 2001, Dimension Films (no relation to Dimension Pictures) announced that there was a remake of Dolemite in production, starring LL Cool J in the lead role. Details released about the project signaled major differences that would severely tone down the adult (and possibly politically incorrect) nature of the original film, such as making Dolemite not a pimp, but rather an individual framed for a crime he had not committed. Due to massive delays, LL Cool J is no longer attached to the project.^[2]

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Now available in the 10 inch white bottle, and the 12 inch black bottle.

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Serena Williams Bootie

A series of Serena Williams bikini booty pictures have recently surfaced online and reveal the tennis star’s thick nature. Williams was on the beach in Miami to get some sun, and hoped that the bikini could contain her curves!

Over at the Daily Mail of the UK, Williams is seen wearing a strapless pink bikini top along with bikini bottoms that appear to be cheetah print.  However, the bikini seems to be having trouble containing “the booty.”  Fans of the top notch tennis star’s curvy body certainly won’t mind though!

Serena is also seen dancing around in the water with a few friends, which is great for her.  Back in February she had to have emergency surgery to repair a blood clot that was discovered in her lung.  She also developed haematoma due to a pulmonary embolism after cutting her foot on some glass last July.

Daily Mail notes that Serena had been feeling depressed over all the time away from tennis.  Most athletes who truly love their sport find that an injury can take a huge mental toll and lead to depression.  However, spending some fun time on the beach in Miami is a great way to get some of that Vitamin D from the sun’s rays and take her mind off her troubles!

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We are proud to announce that every Monday in May we will be featuring great 70s movies.  In May, we’ll showcase Coffy.  If you haven’t heard of this Pam Grier flick, you need to come back and read about it.  Better yet, go rent it.  We’ll showcase Blacula.  That’s right, they made a movie about a black Dracula and named it Blacula.  You gotta read about this. 

We also cover Dolemite and Shaft, which are probably our two favorite 70s movies.  Finally, we have one more movie that will knock your socks off.  Want to know what it is?  Check back!

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