"Underclassman's" main character described as being a "self hating Black man."

[Nia Imani]

Movie Review: Underclassman

By Kam Williams

I think this movie might have been made before, but it was called Beverly Hills Cop. Also set in L.A., Underclassman stars Nick Cannon as Tracy, a trash-talking, renegade cop from out of town, Philly instead of Detroit. Just as with Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, the movie opens with Nick badly bungling a contraband bust, but toys this time, instead of cigarettes.

The primary problem with the picture, however, is not that it’s a thinly-veiled remake, but that Cannon is neither a consummate comedian, nor does he have half the charm of his predecessor. As a result, his every attempt to entertain us falls flat.

For instance, when he leers at a couple of cuties in bikinis, he seems more like a loser than a lover. Same goes for the situation where he flirts with a teacher by asking, “Did you ever want to be a video dancer?� Then, after she resists his advances, he responds with, Why don’t you stop frontin’? You know you want it. You’re a freak.� This suggests that he doesn’t hold professional women in high regard. And then there’s the sexy scene where the pedophile picks up a couple of white girls he knows are underaged and then has them sandwich him in what he calls “a reverse Oreo.�

When not degrading females, Tracy devotes most of his efforts to behaving like a self-hating black man. Speaking in English-butchering Ebonics, he constantly equates being African-American with the most backwards, debased and degenerate behavior.

For example, he this is how he explains his being a high school dropout. “School ain’t never been my thing. It always seemed to get in the way of being a man.� Later, he asks a gainfully employed black man whether he’s West Indian, insinuating that American-born blacks are lazy.

After being unfairly arrested, instead of protesting, he says he feels at home in jail, “Because the cell brings me closer to the struggle,� whatever that’s supposed to mean. When invited out to get crab by white friends, he acts surprised when he is taken to a fancy restaurant, because “in my neighborhood, getting crab means something totally different,� namely, a sexually-transmitted disease.

The picture was directed by Marcos Siega who, just a couple of weeks ago, released the putrid Pretty Persuasion, an equally-offensive exercise in anti-Semitism. It’s mind-boggling that such relentlessly offensive trash ever finds financial backing from a major Hollywood studio. Why give an international platform to a man with so much hate in his heart?

Regardless, Mr. Siega should look forward to the distinction of being the first director to land two movies on my annual 10 Worst List in the same year.

Fair (1 star)
Rating: PG-13 for profanity, crude humor, violence, illegal drug usage, and the promotion of teen alcohol consumption.
Running time: 95 minutes
Studio: Miramax Pictures

Source: http://www.blacknews.com/pr/underclassman101.html

[black~aries]

thats messed up but Nick Cannon always struck me as a self-hating brotha who doesnt even know what the "struggle" is all about. And its sad, it seems that more movies about self-hating blacks or interracial garbage is being promoted and packaged..its so damaging to the minds of little black boys and girls who think that black love is foreign and being ghetto and disrespect is acting "black:.P.S.Look,Super sreensaver! You will like it !! ))