http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071361/
Ralph Bakshi had a habit of incorporating many controversial themes
into most of his movies of the 1970's including organized religion,
world repression and black issues. As such almost any of his films
from his glory days, with the exception of Lord Of The Ring, had some
element of Blaxploitation within it, yes even Wizards, however no film
was so truly dedicated to the cause than the aptly titled Coonskin.
Coonskin's reception was somewhat odd where some race equality groups
slammed it as racist while others, the NAACP for one, endorsed it.
Even those in the Blaxploitation critic corner either consider it
genious satire or merely just more examples of the black stereotype.
In today's world a white Jew would probably not get away with
broaching the topic which in some respects speaks not to political
correctism gone awry but rather that the extremes on both sides have
lost it since both would decry such an effort.
Personally I was fine with the content at the time but then again that
was against the backdrop of the emergence of the graphic novel where
characters like "Dirty Duck" were literally the analogous pimp
personna so while I had little experience in that world the vision of
Bakshi was not particularly alarming.
Besides I always thought that Wizards and Fritz the Cat were his best
works.
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