Dan_Tebasco
Soul Man
Had heard a bit about this movie before I saw it, many times refered to as being racist. In fact COMPLEX MAGAZINE listed it as number 4 on a 'most racist movies' list they made.
Watching it, I must say it's a whole lot less racist than I expected it to be. In fact I wouldn't call it racist at all.
It's about a white guy who gets into Harvard but can't afford to go there so he looks for scholarships that he can take but the only one applicable to him is one designed for African Americans. So he fakes being black (with full blackface makeover and a 80's jerrycurl to match) and gets it.
There is of course a stigma around blackfaces stemming from early 20th century films where white people would dress up as black peopl...