Hollywood: a Real Good Black is a Real Violent Black!

American Capitalist, By Peter Foster

"Frank Lucas was a murderer and a thief, albeit a charismatic one. He brought death and desolation to many thousands of people in, and beyond, the black community. His self-justification (which emerged in interviews with New York magazine's Mark Jacobson, on which the movie was loosely based) was that, as a black man, he couldn't even have gotten a job as a janitor on Wall Street. In fact, the movie The Pursuit of Happyness (sic) told the story of another black man, Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith), who not only overcame the toughest of conditions to make it on Wall Street, but wound up with his own brokerage company. Strangely, however, I can't remember the word "capitalist" ever cropping up in that inspiring film, although it certainly did in the reviews. The "right-wing" Daily Telegraph described it as a "thinly veiled apologia for rat-race capitalism." The Daily Mail described its "blind faith in the benevolence of capitalism" as "creepy."