Well, it finally happened. The recent fad of pornographic parodies of mainstream films has finally hit rock bottom. When they made a Seinfeld parody it was just another classic adventure in missing the point by adding explicit sex scenes into a show that was all about not talking about the very thing they were talking about. The Simpsons parody was just gross, on account of their decision to actually paint all of the actors yellow. And their parodies of horror movies were just well…redundant. But now, the masters of the un-neccessary have succeeded where even Hollywood has failed with all of its myriad remakes. They have managed to display a groundbreaking combination of racism, insensitivity and un-originality.
And how exactly have they managed to achieve this? Well you know…you already saw the picture. It’s a pornographic “parody” of Roots. For the unitiated, Roots is a book by Alex Haley that claims to present the history of his family, beginning with their Mandinkan Ancestor, Kunta Kente, and preceding all the way down to Hailey himself. Roots, a massive 704 page work was adapted into an eight part television series in 1997. It’s unflinching portrayal of the brutality of American slavery seered itself into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans, both Black and white and it’s final episode is still the third most watched episode in T.V. history, 35 years later.
So why on Earth would anyone think that it was ok to “parody” a movie about the kidnapping, mutilation and humiliation of an innocent man? Perhaps its best not to even ask such questions of the people who brought you “Hector’s Filthy Grandmas” and “Bangin’ Yo Mama”. But don’t worry, according to the director, T.T. Boy, the film is “pro-Black”. And how’s that, you ask? Well, as Mr. uh…boy, explains, “The slaves fuck all the white girls, the daughters and the wives of the masters”. Ah, ok. Now I get it. So first, he decides to re-enforce sexual stereotypes of Black men by casting tall, extremely muscular African-Americans males with large penises, and then he decides to go for another stereotype by having them “fuck all the white girls”, which is the very thing that (according to white people) is the reason why they had to murder so many innocent Black men, like Emmit Till (please don’t Google him, the pictures will traumatize you). Or as the back cover of the DVD states,
Watch the pretty daughters fall in lust with the studs and chase them around for some love! See how upset the husband is after he finds out his wife’s pussy has been stretched by a real dick and how useless he is!
And that, is why this film is “pro-Black”. Cool. Not surprisingly, the local NAACP was not amused. They picketed the film set and attempted to have the production shut down, but unfortunately the video was practically done by the time they arrived.
Pornographers usually excuse incidents of unabashed racism by saying that it’s what the fans want, but in this case, they don’t even have that to fall back on. Despite the hype, the film didn’t even make it into the top 200 the month it was released. I guess even fans of racist porn films have their limits.
Sources
1. Evasive Angles Courts Controversy with ‘Roots’ Parody
2. AVN Magazine December 2011*
http://www.thedigitaleditiononline.com/publication/?i=93457
3. Top 100 Rated TV Shows of All Time
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/03/21/top-100-rated-tv-shows-of-all-time/14922/
*The film was released on October 31, which would mean that most of its early sales would actually be in November, which is covered in the December issue. But I checked the November issue as well and it wasn’t there.
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