Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by Bell Hooks

Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Popular Culture, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781136767906
Google: hV5kFpOR3B8C
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

bh: I feel like if I was a kid lookin’ at that movie, I wouldn’t wanna be him, I’d wanna be you, because your character had the jazz. I mean, your character was cool, your character had feelings. I mean, why couldn’t he have been a strong person?

IC: I think what John Singleton was tryin’ to do was show three separate people that’s friends, you know. He coulda gave Tre a little more, like you said, a little more jazz, even though I know people that straight up, but they wouldn’t really be hangin’ with us.

bh: I gave a talk at the Schomberg recently with the black philosopher Cornel West, and one of the things we were sayin’ is that that guy didn’t look glamorous to kids. You don’t want to be him ’cause he didn’t have no humor hardly, he didn’t have much. Part of what I try to do as a teacher, a professor, is to show people just ’cause you’re a professor and you got a Ph.D., you don’t have to be all tired, with no style and with no presence. If I come on like I don’t have no style, then I’m not really being somebody that black kids are gonna wanna say, “Yeah, this is interesting, you know, I could still have my shit together and be this, I could still be down and be this.” Because then kids will look at us and think, she’s cool, she’s down. I want to be like that. I felt like in terms of real love for the character, I think most people felt the love for you, because your character, even though he was wicked, he was presented as having feelings.

IC: Like I said, he coulda turned out either way. He’s a good kid inside, but circumstances had him the way he was. At the end, it really expressed that I just pretty much wanted to be a regular mo’fucker around here, like everybody else was. I didn’t get the right things at home. I think it’s because he had depth and he looked more like a person than anybody else who was really locked in and then would go up and down. He went from killing somebody to cryin’ on the porch in less than ten minutes. He was like all these kids just stuck up in the penitentiary. They’re the same way—they just took the wrong turn. It’s a fine line between all of ’em, because all of ’em could switch positions anytime. The thing about our neighborhood, you know, now you have the kid that comes from a broken home who turns out to be the best kid. Then you have a kid with a mother and father that’s boom boom, just wild. So we know that it starts young. But we have to start doin’ some things different.

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