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OP-ED
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Getting in the ‘Barbershop’
by Ron Walters
I do not as a rule go to the movies to see the modern versions of the “blaxploitation” films, and so I did not think that the movie, ''Barbershop,'' was worth it. Nevertheless, the heavy Internet traffic has afforded me a sense of what the conflict has been about and a deep concern with the nature of the discussion.
What has concerned me is the lack of an appreciation that many exhibit for Black cultural integrity and associated with that, the understanding that there are cultural boundaries which contain cherished, even sacred spaces, events and individuals which should be protected from corruption. Rather, what has come across is that those who question Hollywood’s characterization of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, in this latest film, are enemies of free speech and they should find something more important to do.
This criticism reveals a failure to consider cultural boundaries an important dimension of cultural integrity. Perhaps the new multiculturalism has promoted such group interactions that cultural integrity is weakening overall. Nevertheless, there is a naivety about the damage that still can be done when a cultural image is corrupted.
Ok. I am also of the Civil Rights Era generation and spent many years in barbershops growing up. I came to recognize that it functioned as an important place of community education, made possible by a respected sense of cultural intimacy. What went on in those places, and still goes on, happens because there is a social trust that people understand is present in a protected space, so they let their guard down and say what they think is the real deal about what was happening in the community.
Hollywood is not a protected space; its purpose is to make the sacred spaces of other people attractive to the public so that they can be commercialized. It projects that intimacy onto national and international stages where there is no trust and no sanction when cultural integrity is vulnerable to corruption. It opens up the dialogue, tears down the boundaries in the name of making the content of the statements ''universal.'' And we just laugh and laugh and laugh, seeming to say that it's alright, and in the bargain, participate in the debasement of our own image—drinking poison we participated in making.
The role of Hollywood in corrupting the image of Black people is legion, which is, in part, why the NAACP Image Awards came about. This role should be subject to increased challenge because the ''entertainment'' produced by Hollywood and its associated medium, television, have become the most powerful cultural educational tools on the planet. We should be concerned that Hollywood gets it right, but instead, we train our fire on those in our leadership whose job it is to protect our sacred spaces, our heroes, our cultural integrity. You can weaken a people by successfully distorting its culture.
There seems to be a lack of understanding that this Hollywood treatment weakens the image of Dr. King and Rosa Parks not only in this country, but abroad. I have traveled to many countries where I have had to confront the cultural distortion that Michael Jackson or Diana Ross were the real heroes of all Blacks or that all Blacks were gangsters or drug dealers (which makes the movie “Training Day” devastating). But the crime is that in many other countries, American Black heroes are also revered as a model for freedom struggles. And they will now see this movie where even their adopted Black heroes are debased.
You don't get the sense that other people will allow you to debase their heroes and feel good about it. They believe that cultural integrity is the key to their own self-worth. An example is that when Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, invited two members of the cast of “The Sopranos” cable TV show to march in the recent Italian Pride Parade on Columbus Day, the leaders of that community said no. They felt that the show perpetrated a stereotype about Italians, associating them with organized crime. But the mayor's response inferred in an arrogant way that they should get over it.
For not having the sense of self-worth to reject the lines attacking King and Parks, the Black actor in “Barbershop,” Cedric the-Entertainer, also bears some responsibility as an artist for contributing to the corruption of Black cultural integrity. You do get the sense that in this era of history, the Black artist who puts everything up for grabs is revered, that Tupac Shakur is equated with Martin Luther King Jr. in importance, that the commercialization of our culture for any purpose is okay as long as it is entertaining.
So, the question is—if everything is up for grabs, nothing is sacred, there are no boundaries, and there is no Black cultural integrity—is this what the process of becoming ''real Americans'' is all about?
Ron Walters is Distinguished Leadership Scholar, director of the African American Leadership Institute and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His latest book is “African American Leadership.”
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