I really 'enjoyed' Byron Hurt, an African American man, who both loves and critiques hip-hop and gets a series of very interesting interviews on the controversial 'shadow' side of hip-hop (mostly people of color, men especially) and the now recording corporate industry (of rich white men) and American culture of violence and fear, with all the 'ism's that go with it. What a disturbing look at "manhood" today... still... going on... I can hardly believe it hasn't changed a bit from when I was a teenager 50 yrs ago... it's seemingly got worse and that is not because of people of color, but because the men (boys) of this marginalized group in American society has 'told the truth' about just how bad it is to be 'bad'--and, they flaunt it and score their bootie from it--and, like most of us, justify things they do that are so unethical--it's a way to make a living.
My favorite line is Hurt's comment about "manhood" being trapped in a "box" and if you are white, black, or any other color, living in America, especially if you are on the 'poor' side, you have to fit that "box" (e.g., homophobia rules, misogyny, and some form of self-hatred deep beneath bathed in terror)--and, Hurt says, that black male hip-hop artists and their fans (males, he is talking about)... just cannot seem to escape their own construction of what it means to be a male in this country, in the hood, or wherever... you have to "put fear into other men's, and other peoples' hearts" (paraphrasing Hurt)... and, that's when I knew, now we are on the real deep truth of the issue... racism, sexism, classism, and all the other 'ism' dis-eases of oppression are underwritten by a 'pact' of fearism-t.
I'll be eventually writing a blog on Sex/Gender Wars (and this film by Hurt shows lots of that stuff) and its relationship to fearism-t. I've taken a radical feminist position in this 'mess' in my past, and I want to re-look at my position using a fearanalysis of the new controversial documentary that's just come out entitled "The Red Pill" by a feminist filmmaker Cassie Jayes... so, stay tuned as that film gives a lot of air time to the men's rights movement and the feminists (get less time) who are against it.
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