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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Go ahead.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You mentioned Sweetback and stereotyping, but not in the same moment,
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
and a thought occurred to me that, the thing that's part of the controversy of Sweetback
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
is that he sort of takes the audience into a rather embarrassing view of Black lifestyle.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
And many people react to that.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
And I wondered if in some of these earlier films,
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
when they talk about when Peter Nobelson, in his book on Negros in films, talks about the Black film--
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
independent Black filmmakers, sort of narrowing the stereotypes of Hollywood films.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
I wonder which came first? If perhaps, Meme-Askay Michelle, who is a novelist, mystery writer,
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
and playwright, and so on, who was writing from within, so to speak--
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{Julius Lester}
Can you wrap it up real quick, in one sentence?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Well, a lot of what he put on screen, right, in a racial conflict about color and so on,
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Right.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
was not altogether untrue.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Okay. Thank you.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Pearl Bowser, Ms. Bush, Mr. Mahon, and Mr. Tucker. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Alan Ginsberg has asked us to announce that on Saturday evening at 7:30,
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
there will be a Bangladesh benefit at St. George's Church on 16th Street,
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
And there will be a poetry reading. Admission is by contribution.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
And I like to just add a personal word to that to urge you to go, you know and I know,
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
that this many people went from Germany to France as refugees,
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
we would be doing something about it.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
So that's Saturday at 7:30, St. George's Church.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Tuesday night on Freetime, we're doing a show about tea. You can check that one out.
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{SPEAKER name="Julius Lester"}
Next Thursday, we are going to go the past year with a Thanksgiving tale. You can check that out.
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I gotta split, y'all. This is Julius Lester, this has been Freetime, take care of yourself.

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