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alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 04:17:13 CDT 2009


Cheese: American cheese, the Processed foodstuff resembling cheese,
dyed orange is a big item in the Black Community where it is often
called "Melt" and where callin a white Pimp "cheese" would mean "from
under cheese" or "toe cheese"  aka "smegma."

Recall the (Green Eggs and Ham)
I do not like it Uncle Sam
Government Cheese.


At the same time, the films were accused of stereotyping blacks, the
audience they aimed to appeal to, as pimps and drug dealers. This
dovetailed with common white stereotypes about black people, and as a
result, many called for the end of the blaxploitation genre. The
NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Urban
League joined together to form the Coalition Against Blaxploitation.
Backed by many black film professionals, this group received much
media exposure and hastened the death of the genre by the late 1970s.

also see Iceberg Slim, Pimp, best selling novel, movie, now a video game.

Again, this novel has very strong feminist themes.
see that Simpson's Gone Wild--Homer's big sermon on "women as objects"



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