Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121228:04:58:00
Of the film without seeing it. >> let me make it even more controversial. i'm a fan of rap. you're a fan of hip-hop. we're both scholars of it. i see a bunch of guys in hip-hop dissing their women calling them the h word, b word, skeezers, sluts and so on. there's nothing like that in this film. this guy risks his entire life for his woman. so first of all, take notice there. and secondly, you said liberation film. he risks everything for her. yes, the women characters are not as fleshed out as they can be, but doesn't that say something redemptive about the quest of black masculinity to find ...