Rico says he went to see
Dear White People with his friend
Kema (who's black) and then rewatched (having seen it in 1969 when it came out)
Putney Swope on his own:
Dear White People is about the lives of four black students at an
Ivy League college that converge after controversy breaks out due to the ill-conceived theme of the campus humor magazine's annual
Halloween party.
It stars a bunch of kids that
Rico never heard of, along with
Dennis Haysbert, one of
Rico's favorite actors; he was in
The Unit, among a lot of
others.
Putney Swope is a dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business
Truth and Soul, Inc., he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on
Putney.
Rico says it wasn't
quite as funny as he'd remembered (racism never is), but good nonetheless... (And, yes, the director is
Robert Downey, Jr.'s father.)
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