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Can You Dig It?: The Culture and Importance of Blaxploitation Films

February 27th, 2015 | POSTED BY Benjamin Nason

“Am I Black enough for you?” Reverend Deke O’Mailey shouts to a crowd in Harlem. “Are you Black enough to hear me?” he asks back. It’s a moniker that becomes a self referential joke throughout the Blaxploitation movie Cotton Comes to Harlem, as other characters…