re: 2024 Oscars Ceremony 6pm CDT

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Kind of sounds like Spike Lee’s Bamboozled

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The story’s central issue was a hot topic in 2001, following the commercial success of “street” books like Sapphire’s 1996 Push — adapted into the 2009 film Precious — and Sister Souljah’s hit The Coldest Winter Ever.

Erasure came out within months of Spike Lee’s film Bamboozled, which told a similar story with TV as its subject: A frustrated producer creates a show of literal blackface minstrelsy, and the network and audience devour it without irony.

The film flopped at the box office, but looms over this one.

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