http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057889/
With some 55 Blaxploitation films posted so far I thought it was time
to really push the envelope with some absolutely beyond all reality
film concept, something so ridiculous that it would make all the other
Blaxploitation films seem realistic. The idea of the film is crazy to
a level unforeseen in any Blaxploitation film.
So here's the idea and stay with me I know this sounds ridiculous.
Take a white reporter from Texas and consider that he finds a doctor
who can provide him with a pigment altering drug that makes him look
black. So I know it already sounds insane but let's really amp it up
by suggesting that not finding enough racism in Texas he decides to
visit places like Mississippi and other states in the south, (after
all Texas has always been devoid of racism).
One has to wonder how anyone could even consider making such a fiction
right?
Except it wasn't fiction. It actually happened.
John Griffin took the test. Now if you read the book and followed up
his skin tone was not really black inasmuch as it mimicked something
akin to black face, (some blacks commented to him saying "I am a Negro
but you are downright black!" <- which at the time would have
referenced the colour and not the race), but for the most part he
seems to have passed a black man his experiences gave thought for the
folly of considering just colour.
James Whitmore portrays Griffin in what is really the tail end of his
career as a lead as he becomes more of a character actor in the years
to come, (if you don't recognize the name you will absolutely
recognize the face).
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