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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Soul Man with C. Thomas Howell  :shock: [/quote]

Haha. True. As a teen in the 80s, I loved this movie. But, as it turns out - on top of the hugely problematic blackface issue - it's not that great of a movie. But, ultimately its heart was in the right place. He's a privileged white kid who isn't going to get to go to Harvard because his parents are selfish. So he puts on some chemically induced blackface to get free tuition. But that lets him see some of the challenges for black people that were invisible to him. He gets to meet the black woman who would have gotten the scholarship if he hadn't taken it and see the struggles she's facing and why it would be better if she had been the scholarship recipient. And, when James Earl Jones comments on his learning what it means to be black, C. Thomas Howell says, not really - because he could go back to being white any time he wants.

The movie was teaching us about white privilege before that was a phrase that many people used. [/quote]

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