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Harvey Pullings II
@The79thstreetkd · 4:57

Why you can’t have an all Blk Springbreakers film

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I know a lot of women have a problem with it, with this movie. I know a lot of males do. But for me, specifically, please correct me if I'm wrong if you've seen it and you want to respond, it does a lot of fascinating things. But one thing I noticed is the presentation of black culture in it. There's a lot of hip hop references. There's a lot of strip clubs in it

I happen to have watched Springbreakers, which in its current form already has a complicated existence. So, imagine what a Blk version would look like

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Harvey Pullings II
@The79thstreetkd · 4:47

Part 2 (Hip-Hop, semiotics and Black criminology)

But there's something about it that seems to have been excused. And whether you like this movie or not, there's something about the movie that allows you to get behind these young women. Because whether you were a child yourself or you were at a certain age, watching them as kids, seeing them now as adults, involved in this, allows you to kind of root for them even in their bad exploits. And
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Harvey Pullings II
@The79thstreetkd · 4:57

Part 3 (Black Criminology, Social norms and White innocence)

When you look at the perspective that we watch the news and you look at the perspective of the way we receive information the idea of single motherhood, the idea of drug culture and drug dealing and criminology based in metropolitan settings like the inner city. It allows us to feel as if black people and young black people that are, whether male or female, that are involved in gang violence and drug culture are active participants in destroying these places that we call home
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