I saw a new Spike Lee movie today in the St Louis area that would make Smokeybear's head explode. It's called "Chi-Raq" and is a retelling of the play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes, in which the women of ancient Sparta went on a sex strike in order to dissuade their husbands from incessant warfare. Spike Lee's version takes place on the south side of Chicago after a little girl is killed in a drive-by shooting. A fine sista played by Teyonah Parris (whom you no doubt saw last year in "Dear White People" -- you didn't? I guess it was just me) decides to withhold sex from her man, a gang member played by Nick Cannon, to stop the constant gang violence between the Trojans and the Spartans, who sport purple and orange as their gang colors. (Choosing red and black would just be asking for trouble.) Lysistrata stirs up the black women of Chicago and eventually women all over the world to withhold the cootchie and to chant "No peace, no pussy!" The movie also stars Samuel L. Jackson as a kind of commentator named Dolmedes, Wesley Snipes as a one-eyed gang leader named Cyclops, Jennifer Hudson as the grief-stricken mother of the dead girl, Angela Bassett as a kind of "wise older Negress", and John Cusack in a fascinating turn as a radical Catholic priest clearly based on Father Pfleger.
It was a powerful movie, full of rap, dancing, sex, and leftwing politics. I think I'll see it again in Chicago next week!
In the interest of racial harmony, I enjoyed BJs from an older black MILF (40+, big fake tits, former cheerleader, great conversationalist) at Dollie's last night and a beautiful young black girl (slender with perfect B cups -- not a Papi type) this afternoon at Cheeks.
