Talking to ProfD about the ratchet behavior of some of the people we knew and saw growing up brought back memories of Cooley High and scenes like this:
 

 

 

 

I don't care what city you grew up in, we all knew a "Damon"....literally.
Either somebody NAMED "Damon" or somebody who ACTED LIKE Damon.

Mostly likely MULTIPLE....lol.


 

Yeah a classic film

Yep. N8gglets like *Damon* and the female version *Dawn* have been around for a long time. They were allowed to spawn too.🤣 

 

That's how Black communities ended up with crack babies and other dysfunctional n8gglets.😁😎

It was rated PG back in the 70s, but I doubt it it would get that rating today.

I remember the first time I saw this movie.
I had to be 9 or 10 years old and I saw it on one of our old small screen black and white tv sets....lol.
I immediately fell in love with it from the opening scenes right to Preacher galloping away in the cemetery.

I watched it again within the last year or so you appreciate it differently at different stages of life.

16 hours ago, Troy said:

I watched it again within the last year or so you appreciate it differently at different stages of life.

It's the same with the movie Glory, another one of my favorites.

It's been a favorite of mine since it came out back in 1990 and it seems that with each passing decade of wisdom I gain more insight and have more appreciation for difference scenes in that movie.

 

I only saw the film Glory once. For some reason I wasn’t that moved by it, definitely not.  a fave Maybe I’ll check it out again; it will be a different movie to me almost 40 years later.

Troy

Glory was always a favorite movie of mine since day one, and my love for it only increased after learning more about the history of the 54th Regiment and the role Black troops played in the Civil War.

Word is....
The North was actually LOSING the war until Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the enlistment of Black troops to help fight.
That was the real turning point.

Part of me wishes they'd do a movie on the role Black soldiers played in the CONFEDERATE Army!
Maybe Ryan Coogler will ramble around in his creativity closet and find something for me....lol.