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...mirrors of their time, perhaps of their audiences, certainly of their writers and directors. For in most race films, as in mainstream Hollywood product, it was white people taking the pictures. They imitated the Hollywood genres of comedy, melodrama, musicals and Westerns. Race movies were counterfeit white movies - faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar...
...ways blacks do, it falls flat because it lacks authenticity. So, instead of copycatting black slang, it would make more sense for white would-be hipsters to demonstrate a little originality by calling themselves slurs that blacks have used to demean white people, such as cracker, honky or ofay. They could even give the epithets a positive spin through creative misspelling, referring to their all-white circle of friends as "my honkeez," "my crackuhs" or "my ofaze." I can already hear some folks moaning "Negro, please," as they read this, but it's no more absurd than using...
...Without Supper. Not everything can be blamed on Gary Coleman. The sassy black kid-the slick-speaking bro who scores points off the ofay-goes back to the Good Times of the mid-'70s. But it was Coleman, on Dijfrent Strokes (NBC, Thursdays at 9 p.m.), who parlayed his cheekiness into stardom. And now a horde of white child actors have co-opted the game. It must be stopped...
Funky, jive, dawn, high, the Man, hawk, cool, hot, copped-out, cats, caps, kicked, reefer, Johns, juke, ofay, goofed, wing, hip, dig, soul, honkies, splib (spook as in Negro), grass and skag are just a few of the words appearing in black poetry that often have multiple meanings elusive to the white reader. For example, in Etheridge Knight's Poems from Prison, he says...
...season has already started off Broadway-but with more of a sputter than a spurt. The Ofay Watcher meanders through a black-white confrontation with moments of humor but no fresh insights. Years of sibling rivalry and family dissonance are spewed up in an evening-long wrangle between a brother and a sister in Hello and Goodbye by South Africa's Athol Fugard. Unlike a good family fight, a bad one sounds dull, mean and petty, though Colleen Dewhurst as the whoring sister gives a performance that is etched in sulfuric acid...