Bad hair day

Don't you hate it. Also bad outfit day. Bad skin day. Bad motivation day. It's just an all around ugly day.

So I read Wendi C. Thomas' column about Hustle & Flow in Sunday's paper and I thought it was obnoxious. She was dissing the movie because it showcased the underbelly of Memphis and glorified it. I thought that was a bit snooty, I mean what's wrong with portraying what ghetto life is all about? Those people are human beings too. She got some emails with the same reaction I had, because today she responded with a diatribe about how the black middle class is invisible to the "...movies, the media, and society in general..."

Wendi it was just a movie. It wasn't a representation of what Memphis is to all people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. It wasn't a documentary. It was a made up story about what the writer thinks could transpire in a specific time, place and subculture within Memphis. Brewer didn't set out to accurately portray all the various class levels of black people in Memphis. That's something you might find on PBS, not at the movie theatre. And that would be an interesting documentary to make, but don't criticize someone for making a movie that doesn't include someone you can identify with because that's just completely self-absorbed. As a columnist you should really avoid that.