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...offenders are Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue, which feature Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only...
...Sounder, but the white movie producers and their black allies have other aspirations. American International already has Blackenstein under production, and there is talk of yet another Shaft film. White producers justify their efforts by the old rationalization, "We're only giving them what they want." But like heroin and cocaine, whites and some unscrupulous blacks are once again giving the black community what it wants but not what it needs...
...Heroin use is a contagious disease. Addicts teach nonaddicts during weak moments how to use the drug...
...global war on heroin is being fought like the Viet Nam War. We are now witnessing a gradual escalation of pressure on the enemy's supply lines, and we measure success not by body counts but by an equally meaningless statistic: the number of pounds of heroin seized in a search-and-de-stroy mission. The prognosis for both wars is also similar: a prolonged, expensive and inconclusive stalemate...
...Trying to cure the heroin problem by destroying the sources of heroin is like trying to cure the problem of overweight by destroying the sources of food. Fantastic...