boyfriend as he arrives to take his girl out, gonna have a night out in Brixton.
the company of all those black muggers and rapists.
album conclusion.
This is the racist ad which appeared in the national press warning for what is an overtly racist mun, Tau os msuneny stereotypes and equally inSHERE TaUSE TORCT Despite its heavy promotion. the film can only be described as very poor. It is, for the most part badiy acted. and 'Com'on Babe', declares the suave, leather-jacketed "Brixton", she gasps, with neatly manicured hand to mouth, and eyes wide with horror at the thought of spending the evening in You must have seen the ads for the Black Joy it's a swinging new film shot in Brixton', he assures her; and off they po to spend iwo hours in the secure, celluloid world of the Odeon. /You don't have to be black to enjoy Black Joy', she croons in the "stary" asuch as il is — 15 LETELIS revolves around the character Country Hov. artives in cold unwelcoming Britai - Baxton to ge more exact — to be confronted in quick succession by "muggers", crooks, hustlers and cheats, all of whom (incidentally) are black.
Unperturbed hy this masty intimidation. he quickly finds his was to the oca dele office, where talter receiving sMnE Iriends SOVIce trOID ODC of the regulars, a Rastafarian brodher, on bow lo procure one': dale choque withour any 0i the Dommar Durcaucraio delass) he is immodiately given a100 as a custman 'We'ne Presumably, the dispropor: tionate number of unemployed black youth in Brixton must either considee such work to be too degrading, or cannot bave work; for Country Boy clearly demonsitaies now eiss IIs to step off the plane and into a job, especially black and ungualified.
Country Boy's more worldly-wise friend (alias Samn The Forsters) —who specialisuncoavincing es in bustling women, hanging out in the central gambling and who social security cheques delighted at this encouraging He deliehted when demonstrate his innate ess at ripping people off and CowntryBoy|Trevor Thomas|at the bog/nm/ng offis bducatioo with husparDeve|Norman Bestoe!
begins with a culminates in an prostitute.
STEREOTYPES scriously searched for Throughout the Country Bay if you're hirself -t0 deceived by of адс-old artists parade across local bookies, collecting his myths created is even more MASOCHISTIC he can prov: Having laken from Country Boy what must amount to at least his trst monch's wages - ae rent for a mattress on his anything kitchen floor, reimbursement for time lost with a prostitule, miscellancous foans to he reinvested at the local bookies.
Eust Bay edie 10 ts Country Boy advice ou first sexual initiation. This peep show depicting the 'black man's fantasy of a black stud fucking a white woman; and it number of equally inevitable visit to a white duscman film, be swindled and naively allows on their a succeision possibly back men and wonien. All tbe Stereotypes good for nothings, bustlers, rip of :HOD BSULUS the screen, perperuacing une self same by white duced "typical", With one or two exceptions, the black woren in the film are presented as masochistic As the very first commercia sex objects whose conver- film sue rareiyteroses arouno eise than the 1010 013058100B03720LILH of the time stiffing around in searcl of it. This is described in the ads as "grown up fun". RACIST JOKES These racist stereocopes are nicely supplemented by a racist jokes, such as the incident where a white calls hi (black) "Hey, hear you re culting down the troes in this Street, so it looks as if you lot are going to bave to walk to like everybody else" Only black prople with a 'chip shoulder could objeet ta such harmless comedy a ration sliation which has heen used by the raciss to justily such insulls since time immiemionia on the assuoption mal raciso clement of humour is introDespite all this, many black prople have praised Black foy, claiming that they found true le life and a pleasant change lo see black faces on the screen' SOCIALIST CHALLENGE B December, 1977 page 15 by and about black people in Britain, ir is clear that many have watched il unanalytically, perhaps feeling that to criticise it would be distoyal. Howeser precisely because Black Joy in the first falm ol its kind that anti-racists should cone oul and openly denounce the debased and degenerate image of black peaple which chis filma is pushin Ar a time of increasing racis attacks on the black com. munity and rapid mobilisation by fascist organisations. can black people afford to adopt a Liberal attitude towards such in the mass media? THA LISSUOUSEETCOL pushing the myth of immigrants" arriving in Britain. takins white jobs and SIDEHISU the cate. can black people aford to support sOch fi m1s n3. which push acdly the samte orytl TCHC E WE BEU DUKAE Black Jay and espose all such attempts to make black people the scapegoats for the falling; of Britain's capitaliar coonomy.
Black Joy is presendy showing at some London Odeons, in the Midiands, East Anglia and Oxford.