Was the Blaxploitation period the height of black sexual expression on the big and small screens?
Borrowing from Robert Townsend, how many films and TV series developed, financed and released by a Hollywood studio last year had a black man simply kissing a black woman (forget about having sex), or vice-versa, with mutual affection, and not juvenile or played for laughs? How about this year, 7 months in?
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a nod to those independent black filmmakers, toiling away outside the Hollywood studio system, whose work reflects their own (as well as some of our own) romantic relationship realities. We look to them instead.
Article Appeared @http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/will-hollywood-let-negroes-make-love-20140710