My buddy wrote a blog on this I think is pretty good, what do you think?

http://blaxploitation2005.blogspot.com/

Every movie coming out of Hollywood is ****, not just those focused on certain racial groups and stereotypes, but all the age based targeted groups. Now even so-called "art" films are targeting the film buffs with **** disguised as art. Anything for a buck.

Interesting, but extemely unfortunate. Not only is it a misunderstanding of Blaxploitation, what has ultimatly become a historical "Genre", but it condemns the idea of "white" executives funding "black" films.

It proves that "black" films can't win either way, they are either dismissed as token productions or not able to garner wide support because they are deemed unaccesable. And to compound the issue if a black character isn't represented in relation to his or her culture, upstanding and honorable, then the character is labled stereotypical. You can go back to Mean Streets when people complained that it unfairly represented the Italian community, or Better Luck Tommorow's depiction of Aisan american teens or Denzel Washington in Training Day. Until characters are fully realized as individuals then black representation will always suffer under social pressures.

The authors list of "black" films point out the serious flaw in his/her arguement. By placing Daddy Day Care and Soul Plane on the same list, linking them only by having "black talent" and "White" funding is unfortunate, simplistic and ultimately inaccurate. It boils filmmaking down to who's profiting and deletes the importnace in the case of Daddy Day Care, of a Black family wanting to go out and see a black star in a family film or a white family accepting a black character as the hero of a film.