[UA] Urban Witchcraft (another long post)

[Alex Lampros]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:14:16 -0600, Tim Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> 
wrote:

> This is very nice indeed.
>
> You know, I think there's a school of magick out there waiting to be 
> created
> about the untapped potential of the 'urban youth'.  Frex, no one really
> cares what they actually think, they have no money, per se, but most of
> Hollywood panders to that demo.

Come down to the corner where I live and you'll see roughly one 
counterexample every minute.  Of course, I live on the south side of 
Chicago, so it may be an exception.  But black people do have money.

There was an article in the times the other day, about how Blacks are some 
of Hollywood's more loyal and growing customer bases, and that there are 
an increasing number of talented black directors.  The rub was that the 
movie industry does a lot of deals through personal connections, which 
makes progress go very slowly.  The fact that the black customers are not 
as interested in the sort of pseudo"arty" movies the Oscars love makes it 
worse.


Alex